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What's New in January 2021

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In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation.

What's New
Finally in Sydney
  • PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions
  • AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
  • Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions
  • Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions
    • Serverless
    Lambda
    • AWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda Functions
  • AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
  • AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source
  • AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
  • AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK
    • API Gateway
    • Amazon API Gateway now supports data mapping in HTTP APIs
    Containers
    Monitoring
    • Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
    • General
    • EC2 Image Builder now supports container images
    ECS
    • Amazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console
  • Amazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policies
  • Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster
    • EKS
    • AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.1 now available with support for additional ELB configurations
    EC2 & VPC
    Instances
    • Announcing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances Policy
    • EBS
    • Multi-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2
  • Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts
    • Networking
    • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
  • Amazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
    • Lightsail
    • Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
    Dev & Ops
    Dev
    • AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available
  • AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available
  • Porting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translation
  • Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
  • AWS App2Container now supports remote execution of containerization workflows
  • AWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSets
  • Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice
    • Ops
    • Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager | AWS News Blog
  • New – AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management | AWS News Blog
  • Introducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager
    • Security
    • AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization
  • Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC
  • AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries
  • Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
  • Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWS
  • AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization
  • Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics
    • Data storage & processing
    • AWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom Connectors
  • Amazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instances
  • New – AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
  • Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver - now in preview
  • Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
  • Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12
  • Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily
    • AI & ML
    • Introducing Amazon SageMaker ml.P4d instances for highest performance ML training in the cloud
    IoT
    • New – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises
  • Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise
  • Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana
  • AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview
  • AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters
  • AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion
  • Introducing AWS IoT EduKit
  • Announcing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public preview
  • Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise
    • Other Cool Stuff
    Policy
    • Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog
    Services
    • AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications | AWS News Blog
  • AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available
    • Features
    • APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool
  • Cost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) Accounts
  • Announcing the availability of AWS Outposts Private Connectivity
  • Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview)
  • AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating system
  • Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
  • Amazon Lex Introduces an Enhanced Console Experience and New V2 APIs | AWS News Blog
    • SQS
    • Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview)
  • Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing
    • Control Tower
    • region
  • AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations
  • AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update
    • The Nanos
    • Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12
  • Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
  • Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
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