April 23, 2023

Q1 2023 Announcements Round Robin

1 hour

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.

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Melbourne

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

AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions

AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions

AWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more Regions

Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) Regions

AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support

Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region

Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region

AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions

AWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions

Sydney

Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions

Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions

AWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Discussed news items

New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience

New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances

Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback

Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support

Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client

Announcing Consolidated Control Findings and a Consolidated Controls View for AWS Security Hub

New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users

Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell

AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly

AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions

Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks

Code scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in preview

AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless

Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services

Amazon Corretto 20 is now generally available

AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates

AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams

AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs

Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging

Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts

Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default

AWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw Data