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August 17, 2020What's New in July 2020
July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all.
The News
Finally in Sydney
AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region
AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level
Serverless
Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use
Amplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code assets across Lambda functions
Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection
Containers
AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications | AWS News Blog
Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS
Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17
AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways
Introducing Ingress support in AWS App Mesh | Containers (detailed blogpost)
Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available
Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas
Fluent bit container logs to Elastcsearch
ECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keys
EC2 & VPC
Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances
AWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoring
EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs
EC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatch
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers
Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create
New – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage | AWS News Blog
Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel WHM instance blueprint
AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration
Dev & Ops
Find Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Announcing the Porting Assistant for .NET | AWS News Blog
AWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy Agent
Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications
CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications | AWS Developer Blog (detailed blogpost)
CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support
AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager
AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting
AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project
Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code
Security
Amazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations
AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups
AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API
AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules
AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies
Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections
Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility
Now gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management Console
Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization
AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls
AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs
Storage & Databases
Amazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughput
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instances
AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway
Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery (PITR)
Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs | AWS News Blog
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copy
Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System
New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots | AWS News Blog
Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100%
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy ranking
AWS DataSync adds support for on-premises object storage | AWS News Blog
HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB Instances
AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic, Datadog, HTTP endpoints, and MongoDB Cloud
AI & ML
AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase
Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition
Amazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadata
Amazon EMR now supports encrypting log files using Customer-managed CMKs in AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 10X more items
Amazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower cost
New – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | AWS News Blog
Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Kendra
AWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS)
Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition
Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers
Amazon Translate now supports Office documents | AWS News Blog
Other cool stuff
New – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog
Announcing the New AWS Community Builders Program! | AWS News Blog
AWS IoT SiteWise – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites | AWS News Blog
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available
Recording of the Connect/Contact Lens talk by Rian Brooks-Kane at the User Group (starts around 50 minutes)
AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device
Amazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-up
Amazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsers
AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower
Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool
Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs
Introducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)

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July 06, 2020What's New in June 2020
AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts.
The News
Finally in Sydney ANZ
Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available
Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East
Serverless
AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos
Swift Lambda support (Apple supported through WWDC sessions)
Amplify Console adds support for automatically creating and deleting custom sub-domains for every branch deployment
Containers
Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support
Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available
EC2 & VPC
AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing
Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs
Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces .NET Core on Linux Platform
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables
Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
Security
AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules
AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events
Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup
AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization
AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account data protection management and monitoring
Dev & Ops
Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact | AWS News Blog
Announcing Amazon Honeycode
Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types
EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink
AWS CodeCommit now supports Emoji Reactions to Comments
AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type
Databases
Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding
AWS Data Migration Service now supports copying graph data from relational sources to Amazon Neptune
Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems
Announcing storage controls for schemas in Amazon Redshift
Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations
Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica
Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables
Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
AI & ML
DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge
Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines
AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach
Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks
Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce
Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration
Other Cool Stuff
AWS announces AWS Snowcone - a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
Amazon Route 53 Launches New API Action to list Private Hosted Zones associated with your Amazon VPCs
Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block
Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts
Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed
Enable WebRTC simulcast to improve video performance for applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK
Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices
Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice

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June 15, 2020What's New in May 2020
Another month, another long list of AWS releases. And once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take a look at what's new and give their opinions, whether those are appreciated or not. This episode was recorded on 29 May, but unfortunately had some delays in editing.
The News
Finally in Sydney
Announcing major enhancements to Amazon Macie, an 80%+ price reduction, and global region expansion
Amazon Fraud Detector Preview is now available in Ohio, Ireland, Singapore and Sydney AWS Regions
AWS Inter-Region Data Transfer (DTIR) Price Reduction | AWS News Blog
Amazon RDS Data API and Amazon RDS Query Editor are available in additional regions
Amazon RDS Proxy (Preview) Now Available in 8 Additional AWS Regions
Serverless
Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available
AWS Step Functions now supports AWS CodeBuild service integration and CodePipeline supports invoking Step Functions with a new action type
Control your email flows in Amazon WorkMail using AWS Lambda
AWS SAM adds support for AWS Step Functions
Announcing General Availability of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android, with new authentication, data, and AI/ML support
Containers
Amazon EKS Improves Cluster Creation and Management in the AWS Console
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.16
ECR now supports Manifest Lists for multi-architecture images
Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics - Now in Beta
Introducing the CDK for Kubernetes, a New Software Development Framework and Open Source Project for Defining Kubernetes Applications Using Code
AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Environment files for the EC2 launch type
AWS Fargate now encrypts data stored on ephemeral storage by default in platform version 1.4
EC2 & VPC
Amazon SES now offers VPC Endpoint support for SMTP Endpoints
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Node.js, PHP, Go, and Ruby Platforms
Announcing Route Analyzer in AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager
AWS License Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6)
Add enriched metadata to Amazon VPC flow logs published to CloudWatch Logs and S3
Amazon EC2 now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
Amazon EC2 M6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
Enhanced monitoring capabilities for AWS Direct Connect
Amazon EFS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%
Security
AWS Single Sign-On supports zero-downtime external IdP certificate rotation
AWS Artifact service launches new user interface
Introducing the Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security
AWS Client VPN now supports Federated Authentication via SAML 2.0
AWS Backup supports new options for customizing backup selections
Manage access to AWS centrally for Okta users with AWS Single Sign-On
Now deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs across an organization from a delegated member account
Network Load Balancer now supports TLS ALPN Policies
Dev & Ops
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer launches new, more cost-effective pricing model
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces availability of hourly recommendation reports to remediate issues quickly
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces pull request dashboard
AWS Cloud9 is now available with a new default theme
Amazon CodeGuru announces -javaagent switch to start Profiler
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces support for Bitbucket repositories and enhancements
AWS CodeBuild Test Reporting is now Generally Available
AWS Systems Manager now supports resource groups as targets for State Manager
Databases
NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB adds support for Linux
Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility
Neptune Streams feature is now available outside of lab mode
AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Expression-Based Data Transformations
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bulk Insert on highly available DB Instances using Amazon S3 Integration
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
AI/ML
AWS DeepComposer announces real-time visualizations for in-console model training and improved interactivity in learning capsules
Amazon Kendra is now generally available
Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers with Amazon Elastic Inference for TensorFlow and PyTorch Training and Inference For TensorFlow
Amazon Transcribe now supports vocabulary filtering for real-time transcription
Other cool stuff
AWS announces Amazon Elasticsearch Service UltraWarm general availability
AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of Trusted Advisor checks
Introducing AWS Trusted Advisor Explorer
AWS Trusted Advisor adds 5 Cost Optimization checks
AWS announces a 90%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Device Management Jobs
Amazon Chime adds new policies to govern meeting access
Introducing AWS Elemental Media Event Management
Amazon Connect Now automatically changes Agent Status to Offline on Logout
Now Query for AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
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May 05, 2020What's New in April 2020
A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music.
The News
Finally in Sydney
Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange
AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions
EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions
Serverless
Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview) (not in Sydney)
Exporting HTTP APIs as OpenAPI 3.0 Now Supported by Amazon API Gateway
AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1
The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions
Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs
AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available
Containers
Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available
AWS App Mesh adds support to connect services deployed in multiple AWS accounts into a shared mesh
Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles
Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking
Databases
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available
Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12
Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.4
AWS Database Migration Service now supports replicating data to Apache Kafka streaming platform (Keyspaces)
Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type
Dev & Ops
AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available
Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack
EC2 Image Builder adds support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLES
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC
Security
Amazon Detective is now generally available
Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization
Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple
Track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules
AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard
VPC & EC2
Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches support for AWS PrivateLink
AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms
New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available
AI & ML
AWS DeepComposer is now generally available
Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions
Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework
Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files
Amazon Personalize now provides scores for recommended items
Other Cool Stuff
You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations
Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS Canada (Central) Region Adds Third Availability Zone
Introducing AWS Cost Categories
Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available
Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP
Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020
Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF
Amazon Connect now enables customers to interrupt Amazon Lex Chatbots
Introducing Amazon Chime Proxy Phone Sessions
AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized now delivers 25% faster data transfer performance
AWS Snowball adds task automation with AWS Systems Manager
AWS Snowball now supports local AWS IAM
Introducing AWS OpsHub for Snow Family, a graphical user interface to manage AWS Snowball devices
Other links
AWS DeepComposer - Oasis - Wonderwall - Experiment #001 by The Dirk
I Think Breath Noise is an Interesting One | Ambassador Lounge Podcast Episode #4
AWS Inside the Region | ig.nore.me
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April 08, 2020What's New in March 2020
In our first episode we go through an extended version of our usual What's New segment of the podcast. For this, Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy. This episode was recorded on the evening of the 27th of March 2020 (Australian time).
COVID-19
Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help | AWS News Blog
Remote Work & Learning | Amazon Web Services (see the offers section for the extended free tiers)
Amazon’s COVID-19 blog: daily updates on how we’re responding to the crisis
COVID-19 Global Hackathon 1.0: #BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon - Devpost
Finally in Sydney
AWS Control Tower now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Amazon Forecast is now available in three new regions - Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai) and Europe (Frankfurt)
AWS Migration Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Serverless
AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x and Python 3.8
AWS Serverless Application Repository adds support for sharing applications with AWS organizations
API Gateway offers private integrations with AWS ELB and AWS CloudMap as part of HTTP APIs GA release
Amplify Console adds command line interface for configuring continuous deployment and hosting
Containers
Now proactively manage your ECR API use with CloudWatch Metrics and Service Quotas
Amazon EKS adds envelope encryption for secrets with AWS KMS
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15
Announcing Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches Docker on AL2 Platform (Beta)
AWS App Mesh launches support for end to end encryption
Amazon ECS supports in Preview updating Placement Strategy and Constraints for existing ECS Services
EC2 & VPC
Amazon EC2 Hibernation now Lets you Pause and Resume Your Workloads on T2 Instance Types
Announcing 36% faster EBS-optimized performance on additional AWS Nitro System-based Amazon EC2 instances
Amazon Lightsail now supports resource monitoring, alarming and notifications
Use Amazon VPC Endpoint Policies for granular control of Amazon EC2 APIs
Security
AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger size for secrets and higher request rate for GetSecretValue API
Introducing AWS Config multi-account, multi-region support for advanced query
AWS WAF adds Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules
Amazon GuardDuty Price Reduction
AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports certificate authentication for connections to AWS Transit Gateway
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) Adds Support For 1 hour Backup Interval
Dev & Ops
AWS CodeCommit Introduces git-remote-codecommit, a New Git Credential Helper
Introducing Customizations for AWS Control Tower solution
Execute Chef recipes on Linux with AWS Systems Manager
AWS Control Tower now supports single-step account provisioning
AWS AppConfig announces integration with Amazon S3
Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to combine multiple alarms
Databases
NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory
New AWS Certification validates expertise in AWS databases
Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility supports Amazon Aurora Global Database
Amazon Redshift launches pause and resume
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces Global Datastore
Announcing column-level access control for Amazon Redshift
AI / ML
Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic content redaction
Announcing Time Expression for Amazon Comprehend Medical
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports Multi-Label Image and Text Classification and Amazon CloudWatch Events
Introducing Amazon Personalize Optimizer Using Amazon Pinpoint Events
AWS RoboMaker simulation now supports GUI streaming for robot and simulation applications
Other cool stuff
You can now take all AWS Certification exams with online proctoring. See the AWS Certification FAQs
AWS Cost Explorer now offers Savings Plans Recommendations for Member (Linked) Accounts
AWS adds the ability for customers to enable AWS Local Zones themselves
AWS Global Accelerator now supports Bring Your Own IP Addresses and Resource Tagging
AWS Console Mobile Application Launches a New Android Version
Amazon Connect announces per-second billing, saving customers up to 5% in telephony costs
Amazon Connect makes it easier to customize the caller experience by adding attributes to existing contact flow blocks
Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for native application mode on Windows PCs
Automate index management with Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver Supports New File System Deployment Options
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch versions 7.4
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