Melbourne AWS User Group

What's New in August 2020

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Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano

The News
Finally in Sydney
  • Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions
  • Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions
    • Serverless
    Lambda
    • AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings
  • AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2
  • AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto)
  • AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2
  • AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source
  • AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs
    • API Gateway
    • Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names
  • API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services
  • Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs
    • Step Functions
    • AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing
  • AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing
    • Amplify
    • Announcing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOS
  • Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview
    • Containers
    Fargate
    • AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
  • AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans
  • Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems
    • ECS
    • Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type
  • AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration
  • Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI
    • EKS
    • Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
  • Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs
  • Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available
  • Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview
  • Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
    • Other
    • AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration
    EC2 & VPC
    • Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API
  • Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
  • AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic
  • AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms
  • AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation
  • AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management
  • Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability
    • Dev & Ops
    • CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support
  • EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally
  • AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints
  • Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor
  • AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases
  • AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support
    • Security
    • New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog
  • Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On
  • AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
  • AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing
  • AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers
    • Storage and Databases
    • New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
  • AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration
  • AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows
  • Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench
  • Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads
  • Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies
  • Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster
  • AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source
  • Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019
    • AI & ML
    • AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model
  • Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
  • Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability
    • Other Cool Stuff
    • Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket
  • AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region
  • AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options
  • Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA
  • Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls
  • Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call
  • Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer
  • AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics
  • Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list
  • Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization
  • Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice
  • Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB
    • The Nano Candidates
    • Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
  • AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
  • Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls
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