What's New in April 2020 - a podcast by Melbourne AWS User Group

A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music.

The News
Finally in Sydney

• Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange


• AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia


• AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions


• EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions


• Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions

Serverless

• Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview) (not in Sydney)


• Exporting HTTP APIs as OpenAPI 3.0 Now Supported by Amazon API Gateway


• AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1


• The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions


• Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs


• AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available

Containers

• Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available


• AWS App Mesh adds support to connect services deployed in multiple AWS accounts into a shared mesh


• Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles


• Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking

Databases

• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available


• Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12


• Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.4


• AWS Database Migration Service now supports replicating data to Apache Kafka streaming platform (Keyspaces)


• Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type

Dev & Ops

• AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available


• Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack


• EC2 Image Builder adds support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLES


• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available


• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC

Security

• Amazon Detective is now generally available


• Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization


• Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple


• Track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules


• AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard

VPC & EC2

• Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems


• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches support for AWS PrivateLink


• AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches


• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms


• New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available

AI & ML

• AWS DeepComposer is now generally available


• Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions


• Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework


• Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files


• Amazon Personalize now provides scores for recommended items

Other Cool Stuff

• You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations


• Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region


• AWS Canada (Central) Region Adds Third Availability Zone


• Introducing AWS Cost Categories


• Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available


• Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP


• Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels


• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)


• AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020


• Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF


• Amazon Connect now enables customers to interrupt Amazon Lex Chatbots


• Introducing Amazon Chime Proxy Phone Sessions


• AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance


• AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager


• AWS Snowball now supports local AWS IAM


• Introducing AWS OpsHub for Snow Family, a graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices

Other links

• AWS DeepComposer - Oasis - Wonderwall - Experiment #001 by The Dirk


• I Think Breath Noise is an Interesting One | Ambassador Lounge Podcast Episode #4


• AWS Inside the Region | ig.nore.me 

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