What’s New in November and at re:Invent 2021 - a podcast by Melbourne AWS User Group

Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too.

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News
Finally in Sydney

• AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions


• Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regions

Serverless

• Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless in preview


• Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand


• Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview)


• Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public preview


• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (preview)


• Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability


• Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet type


• AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview)

Lambda

• AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source


• AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry


• AWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source


• AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events

Step Functions

• AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLink

Amplify

• Introducing AWS Amplify Studio


• AWS Amplify announces the ability to override Amplify-generated resources using CDK


• AWS Amplify announces the ability to add custom AWS resources to Amplify-created backends using CDK and CloudFormation


• AWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and Vue


• AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelines


• AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview)


• AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quickly

Containers
Fargate

• Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors

ECS

• Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information


• Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling


• Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source project


• Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

EKS

• Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter


• Amazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormation


• Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available


• AWS Karpenter v0.5 Now Generally Available


• AWS customers can now find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party applications that run in any Kubernetes environment from AWS Marketplace

Other

• Amazon ECR announces pull through cache repositories


• AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images

EC2 & VPC
Instances

• New – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs | AWS News Blog


• Announcing new Amazon EC2 G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors


• Introducing Amazon EC2 R6i instances


• Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances


• Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumes


• Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey


• Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS


• Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022


• Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types


• Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances


• Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors


• Announcing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors


• Introducing the AWS Graviton Ready Program


• Introducing Amazon EC2 M6a instances


• AWS Compute Optimizer now offers enhanced infrastructure metrics, a new feature for EC2 recommendations


• AWS Compute Optimizer now offers resource efficiency metrics

Networking

• AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet


• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances


• Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support


• AWS Transit Gateway introduces intra-region peering for simplified cloud operations and network connectivity


• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces IP Address Manager (IPAM) to help simplify IP address management on AWS


• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Network Access Analyzer to help you easily identify unintended network access


• Introducing AWS Cloud WAN Preview


• Introducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLink

Other

• Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin


• Amazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75%


• Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers


• Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase


• Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing


• AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2


• AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling


• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Predictive Scaling with Custom Metrics

Dev & Ops
New services

• Measure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub | AWS News Blog


• Scalable, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery in the Cloud | AWS News Blog


• Announcing general availability of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery


• AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in preview


• Announcing Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, an ML-powered capability that automatically detects and diagnoses performance and operational issues within Amazon Aurora


• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)


• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performance

IaC

• AWS announces Construct Hub general availability


• AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now generally available


• You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set


• You can now submit multiple operations for simultaneous execution with AWS CloudFormation StackSets


• AWS CDK releases v1.126.0 - v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS App Runner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step Functions

SDKs

• AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)


• AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview)


• AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview)

CICD

• AWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioning


• AWS Proton introduces Git management of infrastructure as code templates


• AWS App2Container now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipeline

Other

• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositories


• EC2 Image Builder enables sharing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organization Units


• Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced


• Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations


• AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types


• AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.


• AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC


• Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressions


• Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Evidently for feature experimentation and safer launches


• New – Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management | AWS News Blog


• Introducing AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET

Security

• AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account


• AWS CloudTrail announces ErrorRate Insights


• AWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management


• Amazon SQS Announces Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS)


• AWS WAF adds support for Captcha


• AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation

Security Hub

• AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs


• AWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partners

SSO

• Manage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-On


• Manage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-On


• AWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows


• AWS Single Sign-On is now in scope for AWS SOC reporting

Control Tower

• AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails


• AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units


• AWS Control Tower now provides controls to meet data residency requirements


• Deny services and operations for AWS Regions of your choice with AWS Control Tower


• AWS Control Tower introduces Terraform account provisioning and customization

Data Storage & Processing
Databases
Relational databases

• Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server


• New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)


• Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots


• Amazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0


• Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports backups on AWS Outposts

Athena

• Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans


• Amazon Athena announces cross-account federated query


• New and improved Amazon Athena console is now generally available


• Amazon Athena now supports new Lake Formation fine-grained security and reliable table features


• Announcing Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg (Preview)

Redshift

• Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling


• Amazon Redshift announces native support for SQLAlchemy and Apache Airflow open-source frameworks


• Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of other AWS services by introducing the default IAM role


• Announcing Amazon Redshift cross-region data sharing (preview)


• Announcing preview of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2

Neptune

• Announcing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon Neptune


• AWS releases open source JDBC driver to connect to Amazon Neptune

MemoryDB

• Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances and a 2-month Free Trial

Database Migration Service

• AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel load for partitioned data to S3


• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Kafka multi-topic


• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Azure SQL Managed Instance as a source


• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a source


• Introducing AWS DMS Fleet Advisor for automated discovery and analysis of database and analytics workloads (Preview)


• AWS Database Migration Service now offers a new console experience, AWS DMS Studio


• AWS Database Migration Service now supports Time Travel, an improved logging mechanism

Other

• Database Activity Streams now supports Graviton2-based instances


• Amazon Timestream now offers faster and more cost-effective time series data processing through scheduled queries, multi-measure records, and magnetic storage writes


• Amazon DynamoDB announces the new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class, which helps you reduce your DynamoDB costs by up to 60 percent


• Achieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instances

S3

• Amazon S3 on Outposts now delivers strong consistency automatically for all applications


• Amazon S3 Lifecycle further optimizes storage cost savings with new actions and filters


• Announcing the new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class - the lowest cost archive storage with milliseconds retrieval


• Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists to simplify access management for data in S3


• Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is now Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval; storage price reduced by 10% and bulk retrievals are now free


• Announcing the new S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access tier - Automatically save up to 68% on storage costs


• Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you build advanced serverless applications faster


• Amazon S3 console now reports security warnings, errors, and suggestions from IAM Access Analyzer as you author your S3 policies


• Amazon S3 adds new S3 Event Notifications for S3 Lifecycle, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, object tags, and object access control lists

Glue

• AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow


• AWS Glue DataBrew now supports custom SQL statements to retrieve data from Amazon Redshift and Snowflake


• AWS Glue DataBrew now allows customers to create data quality rules to define and validate their business requirements

FSx

• Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS


• Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports linking multiple Amazon S3 buckets to a file system


• Amazon FSx for Lustre can now automatically update file system contents as data is deleted and moved in Amazon S3


• Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems

Backup

• Announcing preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3


• AWS Backup adds support for Amazon Neptune


• AWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)


• AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policies


• AWS Backup adds support for VMware workloads

Other

• AWS Lake Formation now supports AWS PrivateLink


• AWS Transfer Family adds identity provider options and enhanced monitoring capabilities


• Introducing ability to connect to EMR clusters in different subnets in EMR Studio


• AWS Snow Family now supports external NTP server configuration


• Announcing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis


• Now execute python files and notebooks from another notebook in EMR Studio


• AWS Snow Family launches offline tape data migration capability

AI & ML
SageMaker

• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Canvas - a visual, no-code interface to build accurate machine learning models


• Announcing Fully Managed RStudio on Amazon SageMaker for Data Scientists | AWS News Blog


• Amazon SageMaker now supports inference testing with custom domains and headers from SageMaker Studio


• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports retry policies and resume


• Announcing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints


• Amazon announces new NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon SageMaker


• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now integrates with SageMaker Model Monitor and SageMaker Clarify


• Amazon SageMaker now supports cross-account lineage tracking and multi-hop lineage querying


• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender


• Introducing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: Create high-quality training datasets without having to build labeling applications or manage the labeling workforce on your own


• Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab (currently in preview), a free, no-configuration ML service


• Amazon SageMaker Studio now enables interactive data preparation and machine learning at scale within a single universal notebook through built-in integration with Amazon EMR

Other

• General Availability of Syne Tune, an open-source library for distributed hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization


• Amazon Translate now supports AWS KMS Encryption


• Amazon Kendra releases AWS Single Sign-On integration for secure search


• Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions


• AWS AI for data analytics (AIDA) partner solutions


• Introducing Amazon Lex Automated Chatbot Designer (Preview)


• Amazon Kendra launches Experience Builder, Search Analytics Dashboard, and Custom Document Enrichment

Other Cool Stuff

• In The Works – AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region | AWS News Blog


• Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now includes blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials


• AWS DeepRacer introduces multi-user account management


• Amazon Pinpoint launches in-app messaging as a new communications channel


• Amazon AppStream 2.0 Introduces Linux Application Streaming


• Amazon SNS now supports publishing batches of up to 10 messages in a single API request


• Announcing usability improvements in the navigation bar of the AWS Management Console


• Announcing General Availability of Enterprise On-Ramp


• Announcing preview of AWS Private 5G


• AWS Outposts is Now Available in Two Smaller Form Factors


• Introducing AWS Mainframe Modernization - Preview


• Introducing the AWS Migration and Modernization Competency


• Announcing AWS Data Exchange for APIs


• Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Amazon WorkSpaces Web


• Amazon SQS Enhances Dead-letter Queue Management Experience For Standard Queues


• Introducing AWS re:Post, a new, community-driven, questions-and-answers service


• AWS Resource Access Manager enables support for global resource types


• AWS Ground Station launches expanded support for Software Defined Radios in Preview


• Announcing Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs for running hybrid quantum-classical workloads on Amazon Braket


• Introducing AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces - Preview

Well-Architected Framework

• Customize your AWS Well-Architected Review using Custom Lenses


• New Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

IoT

• Announcing AWS IoT RoboRunner, Now Available in Preview


• AWS IoT Greengrass now supports Microsoft Windows devices


• AWS IoT Core now supports Multi-Account Registration certificates on IoT Credential Provider endpoint


• Announcing AWS IoT FleetWise (Preview), a new service for transferring vehicle data to the cloud more efficiently


• Announcing AWS IoT TwinMaker (Preview), a service that makes it easier to build digital twins


• AWS IoT SiteWise now supports hot and cold storage tiers for industrial data


• New connectivity software, AWS IoT ExpressLink, accelerates IoT development (Preview)


• AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports two additional data sources (Preview)

Connect

• Amazon Connect now enables you to create and orchestrate tasks directly from Flows


• Amazon Connect launches scheduled tasks


• Amazon Connect launches Contact APIs to fetch and update contact details programmatically


• Amazon Connect launches API to configure security profiles programmatically


• Amazon Connect launches APIs to archive and delete contact flows


• Amazon Connect now supports contact flow modules to simplify repeatable logic

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