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

Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano

The News
Finally in Sydney

• Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog


• Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions


• Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions

Serverless
Lambda

• AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings


• AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2


• AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto)


• AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2


• AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source


• AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs

API Gateway

• Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names


• API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services


• Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs

Step Functions

• AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing


• AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing

Amplify

• Announcing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOS


• Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview

Containers
Fargate

• AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer


• AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans


• Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems

ECS

• Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type


• AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration


• Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI

EKS

• Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer


• Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs


• Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available


• Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview


• Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2

Other

• AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration

EC2 & VPC

• Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API


• Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors


• AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic


• AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms


• AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation


• AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management


• Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability

Dev & Ops

• CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support


• EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally


• AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints


• Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor


• AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases


• AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support

Security

• New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog


• Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On


• AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability


• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing


• AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers

Storage and Databases

• New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog


• Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors


• AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration


• AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows


• Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench


• Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads


• Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies


• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster


• AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source


• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019

AI & ML

• AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model


• Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy


• Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability

Other Cool Stuff

• Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket


• AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region


• AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options


• Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area


• Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA


• Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls


• Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call


• Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer


• AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics


• Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list


• Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization


• Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice


• Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB

The Nano Candidates

• Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy


• AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability


• Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls

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