Simon takes you through a nice mix of updates and new things to take advantage of - even a price drop!

Chapters:

Service Level Agreements 00:19

Price Reduction 1:15

Databases 2:09

Service Region Expansion 3:52

Analytics 5:23

Machine Learning 7:13

Compute 7:55

IoT 9:37

Management 10:43

Mobile 11:33

Desktop 12:30

Certification 13:11

Shownotes:

Topic || Service Level Agreements 00:19

Amazon API Gateway announces service level agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/api-gateway-introduces-service-level-agreement/

Amazon EMR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-emr-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/

Amazon EFS Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-efs-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/

AWS Direct Connect Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/sla/

Topic || Price Reduction 1:15

Announcing AWS Fargate Price Reduction by Up To 50% | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/announcing-aws-fargate-price-reduction-by-up-to-50-/

Topic || Databases 2:09

Introducing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) – Generally available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-documentdb-with-mongodb-compatibility-generally-available/

AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility as a target | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-database-migration-service-adds-support-for-amazon-documentdb/

Topic || Service Region Expansion 3:52

Amazon EC2 High Memory Instances are Now Available in Additional AWS Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ec2-high-memory-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-aws-regions/

Amazon Neptune is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon_neptune_is_now_available_in_sydney/

Amazon EKS Available in Seoul Region | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-eks-available-in-seoul-region/

AWS Glue is now available in the AWS EU (Paris) Region | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-glue-is-now-available-in-the-aws-eu-paris-region/

Amazon EC2 X1e Instances are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ec2-x1e-instances-are-now-available-in-the-asia-pacific-seoul-aws-region/

Amazon Pinpoint is now available in three additional regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-pinpoint-is-now-available-in-three-additional-regions/

Topic || Analytics 5:23

Amazon QuickSight Launches Pivot Table Enhancements, Cross-Schema Joins and More | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-quickSight-launche-pivot-table-enhancements-cross-schema-joins-and-more/

Topic || Machine Learning 7:13

Amazon SageMaker now supports encrypting all inter-node communication for distributed training | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/train-encrypt.html

Topic || Compute 7:55

Amazon EC2 Spot now Provides Results for the “Describe Spot Instance Request” in Multiple Pages | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ec2-spot-now-supports-paginated-describe-for-spot-instance-requests/

Announcing Windows Server 2019 AMIs for Amazon EC2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/announcing-windows-server-2019-amis-for-amazon-ec2/

AWS Step Functions Now Supports Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-step-functions-now-supports-resource-tagging/

Topic || IoT 9:37

AWS IoT Core Now Enables Customers to Store Messages for Disconnected Devices | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-iot-core-now-enables-customers-to-store-messages-for-disconnected-devices/

Renesas RX65N System on Chip is Qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/renesas-rx65n-system-on-chip-qualified-for-amazon-freertos/

Topic || Management 10:43

AWS Config adds support for AWS Service Catalog | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-config-adds-support-for-aws-service-catalog/

AWS Single Sign-On Now Enables You to Direct Users to a Specific AWS Management Console Page | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-single-sign-on-now-enables-you-to-direct-users-to-a-specific-aws-management-console-page/

Topic || Mobile 11:33

aws-device-farm-now-supports-appium-node.js-and-appium-ruby | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-device-farm-now-supports-appium-nodejs-and-appium-ruby/

Topic || Desktop 12:30

Deploy Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on AWS with New Quick Start | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/deploy-citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops-service-on-aws-with-new-quick-start/

Topic || Certification 13:11

Announcing the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty Beta Exam | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/announcing-aws-certified-alexa-skill-builder-beta-exam/