What’s new in October 2021 - a podcast by Melbourne AWS User Group

A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.

News
Finally in Sydney

• Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions


• Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions

Serverless
Lambda

• AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account


• AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source

Step Functions

• Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog


• AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows

Amplify

• Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify


• AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage

Other

• Accelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute Blog

Containers

• Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket


• AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers


• Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers


• Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS


• Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads


• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service


• AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets


• AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available

EC2 & VPC

• New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog


• Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units


• Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS


• Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types


• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags


• Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs


• AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment


• AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances


• Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files


• Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3


• New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog


• Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases

Dev & Ops
CLI

• AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog


• Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts

CodeGuru

• Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer


• Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit


• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features

IaC

• AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control


• AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager

Other

• NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models


• Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates


• Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter


• AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions


• AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions

Security
Firewalls

• AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs


• AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop

Backups

• AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports


• AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock

Other

• AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture


• Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys


• AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements

Data Storage & Processing

• Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog


• Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project


• Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle


• AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD


• Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0


• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication


• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console


• AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls


• Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled


• Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas


• AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications


• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings


• New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog

AI & ML
SageMaker

• Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker


• Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates


• Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys

Other

• Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages


• Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets


• AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions


• Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection


• Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription


• Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing


• Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models

Other Cool Stuff

• AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration


• AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies


• VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog


• AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring


• Amazon Monitron launches iOS app


• Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing


• Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards


• Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities


• Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers


• Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog


• Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically


• New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift

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