What‘s New in June 2021 - a podcast by Melbourne AWS User Group

The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual.

News
Finally in Sydney

• AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions


• Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions

Serverless

• Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs


• AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles


• Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions


• Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems


• AWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS Lambda


• AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka

Containers

• Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups


• AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities


• Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements


• Customize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog

EC2 & VPC

• AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications


• Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIs


• Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instances


• AWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance


• Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances


• AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds


• Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances - New features, improved performance and lower prices

Dev & Ops

• AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source


• AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton


• Introducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation | AWS News Blog


• AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements


• Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications


• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions | AWS News Blog


• AWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager console

Security

• Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS


• AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring


• AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions


• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts


• KMS Multi-Region Keys


• AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations


• IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring

Data Storage & Processing

• Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables


• Announcing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)


• Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)


• AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings


• Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune


• Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster


• AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts


• File Access Auditing Is Now Available for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server | AWS News Blog


• Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions


• Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloning


• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances


• Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets


• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster

AI & ML

• Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models


• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability


• Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge


• Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots


• Connect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for Metrics


• Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format - XLIFF documents


• Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs

Other Cool Stuff

• Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services


• Amazon Location Service Is Now Generally Available with New Routing and Satellite Imagery Capabilities | AWS News Blog


• New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN


• Announcing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores


• AWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability Zone


• AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux


• Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically


• In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel | AWS News Blog


• New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News Blog

The Nanos

The month of June...

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