For this episode, Arjen is joined by Jason and Matt to discuss the news from the first quarter of 2023. As that is a bit much, they decide to focus on the Melbourne region first and then pick some of their favourites round-robin style.

This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023.

You can find the user group here:

• Our website

• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions

• Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions

• New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience

• Cevo

For this very special episode, Arjen is joined by Dawn, Jason, and Matt to discuss our newly launched local region. So, of course, we take that opportunity to whinge about missing services and features while also trying to show that we're actually really happy it's here. And at the end we'll take a brief excursion to the new Perth Local Zone as well.

You can find the user group here:

• Our website

• Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region in Australia

• Cevo

After a long hiatus, we're back with season 2 of our podcast! In this episode Arjen, Jason, and Matt discuss their favourite announcements of re:Invent 2022 and how much of this is quality of life improvements.

• Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing

• Cevo

In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how you interpret it.

Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter.

• Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regions

• AWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connections

• Amazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

• Introducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances

• Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates

• AWS Secrets Manager now automatically enables SSL connections when rotating database secrets

• AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL

• Introducing Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs (Preview)

• Introducing real-time collaborative notebooks with EMR Studio

• Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports OpenSearch version 1.1

• Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift

• New – Replication for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processing

• Amazon Kendra launches support for query language

• Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region | AWS News Blog

• AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deployments

• Cevo

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.

Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter.

• 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

• Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless in preview

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

• AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLink

• Introducing AWS Amplify Studio

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

• Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information

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

• Amazon ECR announces pull through cache repositories

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

• AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet

• Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin

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

• AWS announces Construct Hub general availability

• AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)

• AWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioning

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

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

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

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

• AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails

• Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server

• Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans

• Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling

• Announcing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon Neptune

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

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

• Database Activity Streams now supports Graviton2-based instances

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

• AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow

• Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

• Announcing preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3

• AWS Lake Formation now supports AWS PrivateLink

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

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

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

• Customize your AWS Well-Architected Review using Custom Lenses

• Announcing AWS IoT RoboRunner, Now Available in Preview

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

• Cevo

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.

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

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

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

• Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify

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

• Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket

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

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

• Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer

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

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

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

• AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports

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

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

• Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker

• Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages

• 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

• Cevo

After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well.

As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks.

• Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions

• AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance | AWS News Blog

• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler | AWS News Blog

• Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together

• IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection

• Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features | AWS News Blog

• New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure | AWS News Blog

• New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog

• ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)

• AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering

• Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 | AWS News Blog

• Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances

• New – Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering Optimizes Costs for Workloads with Changing Access Patterns | AWS News Blog

• Introducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors | AWS News Blog

• Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On

• Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines

• Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend

• Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards

• Amazon Connect Wisdom is now generally available

• AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements

• Cevo

July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.

• Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions

• AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9

• AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities

• Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA

• Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21

• Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes

• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications

• Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules

• EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images

• Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps

• AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks

• AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions

• AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall

• AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

• AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes

• Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security

• AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points

• Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile

• AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring

• AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer

• Amazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbers

• Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMaker

• Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop

• AWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilities

• The Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streams

• Cevo

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.

• AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions

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

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

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

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

• Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS

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

• Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models

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

The month of June...

• AC3

Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown.

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• Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog

• Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region

• AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps

• Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20

• New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News Blog

• Four new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options

• AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview

• Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter)

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources

• Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing

• Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs

• New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services | AWS News Blog

• Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers(Arjen)

• AC3