What's New in June 2020 - a podcast by Melbourne AWS User Group
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AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts.
The News
Finally in Sydney ANZ
- Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available
- Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East
Serverless
- AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
- Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
- AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos
- Swift Lambda support (Apple supported through WWDC sessions)
- Amplify Console adds support for automatically creating and deleting custom sub-domains for every branch deployment
Containers
- Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
- AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support
- Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
- Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
- AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available
EC2 & VPC
- AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing
- Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs
- Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
- ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces .NET Core on Linux Platform
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables
- Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
Security
- AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules
- AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events
- Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup
- AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization
- AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
- AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account data protection management and monitoring
Dev & Ops
- Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact | AWS News Blog
- Announcing Amazon Honeycode
- Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
- AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types
- EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink
- AWS CodeCommit now supports Emoji Reactions to Comments
- AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type
Databases
- Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding
- AWS Data Migration Service now supports copying graph data from relational sources to Amazon Neptune
- Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
- Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems
- Announcing storage controls for schemas in Amazon Redshift
- Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
- Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
- CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations
- Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica
- Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables
- Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
AI & ML
- DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge
- Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines
- AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach
- Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks
- Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce
- Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
- Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration
Other Cool Stuff
- AWS announces AWS Snowcone - a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
- Amazon Route 53 Launches New API Action to list Private Hosted Zones associated with your Amazon VPCs
- Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block
- Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts
- Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed
- Enable WebRTC simulcast to improve video performance for applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK
- Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices
- Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice
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