What's New in January 2021 - a podcast by Melbourne AWS User Group
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In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation.
What's New
Finally in Sydney
- PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions
- AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
- Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions
Serverless
Lambda
- AWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda Functions
- AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
- AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source
- AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
- AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK
API Gateway
Containers
Monitoring
- Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) | AWS News Blog
- Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) | AWS News Blog
- Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
General
ECS
- Amazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker
- Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console
- Amazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policies
- Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster
EKS
EC2 & VPC
Instances
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances Policy
EBS
- Multi-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2
- Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts
Networking
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
- Amazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Lightsail
Dev & Ops
Dev
- AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available
- AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available
- Porting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translation
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
- AWS App2Container now supports remote execution of containerization workflows
- AWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSets
- Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice
Ops
- Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager | AWS News Blog
- New – AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management | AWS News Blog
- Introducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager
Security
- AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization
- Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC
- AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries
- Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
- Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWS
- AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization
- Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics
Data storage & processing
- AWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom Connectors
- Amazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instances
- New – AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
- Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver - now in preview
- Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
- Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12
- Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily
AI & ML
IoT
- New – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises
- Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise
- Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana
- AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview
- AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters
- AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion
- Introducing AWS IoT EduKit
- Announcing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public preview
- Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise
Other Cool Stuff
Policy
Services
- AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications | AWS News Blog
- AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available
Features
- APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Cost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) Accounts
- Announcing the availability of AWS Outposts Private Connectivity
- Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview)
- AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating system
- Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
- Amazon Lex Introduces an Enhanced Console Experience and New V2 APIs | AWS News Blog
SQS
- Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview)
- Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing
Control Tower
- region
- AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations
- AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update
The Nanos
- Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
- Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
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