Simon & Jeff get together to review a raft of updates large and small!

Shownotes:

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now Allows Customers to Tag Their Elastic IP Addresses | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc-now-allows-customers-to-tag-their-elastic-ip-addresses/

Amazon WorkSpaces Now Supports Configurable Storage and Switching Between Hardware Bundles | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/amazon-workspaces-now-supports-configurable-storage-and-switching-between-hardware-bundles/

Now available in Amazon SageMaker: DeepAR algorithm for more accurate time series forecasting - AWS Machine Learning Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/now-available-in-amazon-sagemaker-deepar-algorithm-for-more-accurate-time-series-forecasting/

Amazon SageMaker BlazingText: Parallelizing Word2Vec on Multiple CPUs or GPUs - AWS Machine Learning Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazon-sagemaker-blazingtext-parallelizing-word2vec-on-multiple-cpus-or-gpus/

Amazon Inspector no Longer Requires a Compatible Kernel for Rules Packages like Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/01/amazon-inspector-no-longer-requires-a-compatible-kernel-for-rules-packages-like-common-

vulnerabilities-and-exposures-cve/

Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Speeds Query Processing with Hash Join and Batched Scans | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/amazon-aurora-with-mysql-compatibility-speeds-query-processing-with-hash-join-and-batched-scans/

Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Natively Supports Synchronous Invocation of AWS Lambda Functions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/amazon-aurora-with-mysql-compatibility-natively-supports-synchronous-invocation-of-aws-lambda-functions/

Announcing Preview of Amazon Aurora with MySQL 5.7 Compatibility | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/announcing-preview-of-amazon-aurora-with-mysql-5-7-compatibility/

AWS Developer Forums: Amazon S3 Inventory adds a time stamp | https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=5368

AWS Lambda .NET Core 2.0 Support Released - AWS Developer Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/aws-lambda-net-core-2-0-support-released/

Announcing Go Support for AWS Lambda - AWS Compute Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-go-support-for-aws-lambda/

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now Available in Three More Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/01/amazon-kinesis-data-firehose-is-now-available-in-three-more-regions/

CloudWatch Introduces Tiered Pricing With up to 90% Discount for VPC Flow Logs and Other Vended Logs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/01/cloudwatch-introduces-tiered-pricing-with-up-to-90-percent-discount-for-vpc-flow-logs-and-other-vended-logs/

Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs Now Support OpenGL 4.3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/01/amazon-ec2-elastic-gpus-now-support-opengl-4-3/

New AWS Auto Scaling – Unified Scaling For Your Cloud Applications - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-auto-scaling-unified-scaling-for-your-cloud-applications/