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What's New in April 2020

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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
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