Melbourne AWS User Group

What's New in July 2020

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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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