What's New in March 2021 - a podcast by Melbourne AWS User Group
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Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month.
News
Finally in Sydney
- AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
- AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions
- Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions
- Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
- Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021! | AWS News Blog(Community Hero Zainab Maleki from Perth)
Serverless
Lambda
- Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News Blog
- The AWS Lambda console now features a new navigation design
- AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks
Step Functions
- AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML
- Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS
EventBridge
Containers
ECS
- Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate
- AWS - Session Manager and ECS Exec | ig.nore.me
- AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more
EKS
- Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40%
- Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets
- Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances
- Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter
- Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning
Other
- AWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolution
- Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA | AWS News Blog
EC2 & VPC
EC2
- Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console | AWS News Blog
- Announcing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deployments
- Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
VPC
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction
- Amazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpoints
Dev & Ops
CICD
- AWS CodePipeline now supports 1000 pipelines per account
- AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines
- AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
- AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization
Systems Manager
- AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resource
- AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvals
Other
- Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
- Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of X-Ray trace context
- Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16
- AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI
Security
Security Hub
- AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard
- AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management
Config
- AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager
- AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions
WAF
- AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging
- AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses
- AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
Other
- AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDB
- AWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch
- AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions
- IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | AWS News Blog
- New AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWS
- AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework
Data Storage & Processing
S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction | AWS News Blog
- AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts
Databases
- Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups
- Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades
- Amazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora Replicas
- Amazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCs
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries
- Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
Other
- New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates
- AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL
- AWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery points
- AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product
AI & ML
SageMaker
- Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80%
- Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability
Other
- Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available
- Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect
- Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast
- Amazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcription
Other Cool Stuff
Regions
Connect
- Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports data sources from Amazon S3
- Amazon Connect now supports 15 minute intervals for historical metric reporting
- Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website
Other Services/Features
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience | AWS News Blog
- Announcing General Availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain
- Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces
- AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications
The Nanos
- AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version(Arjen)
- AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions(Jean-Manuel)
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