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What‘s New in July and August 2021

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July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.

News
Finally in Sydney
  • Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions
  • Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion
  • AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions
    • Serverless
    Lambda
    • AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9
  • AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source
    • Amplify
    • AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities
  • Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & Mobile
  • AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions
  • AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore
  • AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple
  • Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify
    • Other
    • Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA
  • Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview
  • AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs
    • Containers
    • Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21
  • Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | Containers
  • Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades
  • Amazon EKS now supports Multus
  • Amazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasks
  • AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries
  • AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available
  • AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes
  • Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits
    • EC2 & VPC
    Instances
    • Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes
  • New – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations
  • Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances
  • Assigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
  • Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events
    • Auto Scaling
    • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in
    • Other
    • Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules
  • Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs)
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
  • AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink
  • AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints
  • AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints
    • Dev & Ops
    Dev Tooling
    • EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images
  • AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles
  • Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
  • Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications
  • Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile
  • Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding process for AWS Lambda functions
  • CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results
  • AWS AppConfig now enables customers to compare two application configuration versions
  • AWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applications
    • CDK/CloudFormation
    • Announcing CDK Pipelines GA, CI/CD for CDK Apps
  • AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 - v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support
  • AWS CloudFormation now supports more stacks per AWS account
  • You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set
    • Systems Manager
    • AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
  • Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager
  • AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012
  • AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter launches operational insights to identify duplicate items and event sources with unusual activity
  • Now enable auto-approval of change requests and expedite changes with AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
  • AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers
  • AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances
    • Other
    • AWS Control Tower announces improvements to guardrail naming and descriptions
  • Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms
  • Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports visual monitoring
  • Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Usage Metrics
    • Security
    • AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall
  • AWS Shield Advanced no longer requires AWS WAF logging for web-application layer event response
  • AWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA Certificates
  • Amazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keys
  • AWS Control Tower now provides support for KMS Encryption
  • AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
  • AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator
  • AWS WAF now offers managed rule group versioning
  • AWS Security Hub adds 18 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 8 new partners for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
    • Data Storage & Processing
    • AWS DataSync can now copy system access control lists (SACLs) to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
  • Amazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static content
  • Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager launches new console experience
  • Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2
  • Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language
  • Amazon RDS Proxy can now be created in a shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Automatic Minor Version Upgrades
  • Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service | AWS News Blog
  • AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers
  • Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling
    • EBS
    • AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
  • Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation
  • AWS CloudTrail now supports logging of data events for Amazon EBS direct APIs
    • Athena
    • Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security
  • Amazon Athena announces data source connector for Power BI
    • S3
    • AWS Storage Gateway adds support for AWS Privatelink for Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Access Points
  • Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point
  • Amazon S3 on Outposts supports direct access for applications running outside the Outposts VPC
  • Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts
  • Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control
    • Redshift
    • Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of JDBC/ODBC with authentication profile
  • Cross-Account Data Sharing for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog
  • Redshift spatial performance enhancements and new spatial functions
    • Glue
    • AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring
  • AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinations
  • AWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasets
  • AWS Glue DataBrew now supports numerical format transformations
  • AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into AWS Lake Formation-based AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables
    • Snow Family
    • AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer
  • AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowcone devices
  • AWS Snowball now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
  • AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams and routing by providing instances with direct access to external networks
    • AI & ML
    • Amazon Textract announces improvements to detection of handwritten text, digits, dates, and phone numbers
  • Amazon Textract announces specialized support for automated processing of invoices and receipts
  • Announcing Model Variable Importance for Amazon Fraud Detector
  • AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition
  • Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more
  • Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances now supports TensorFlow 2
    • SageMaker
    • Amazon announces new AWS Deep Learning Containers to deploy Hugging Face models faster on Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon SageMaker Pipeline introduces a automatic hyperparameter tuning step
  • Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key Policies
  • Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, P3dn, and G4dn instances for SageMaker Notebook Instances
  • Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions
  • Amazon SageMaker notebook instance now supports Amazon Linux 2
  • Introducing Amazon SageMaker Asynchronous Inference, a new inference option for workloads with large payload sizes and long inference processing times
    • Kendra
    • Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop
  • Amazon Kendra releases Web Crawler to enable web site search
  • Amazon Kendra releases Principal Store for secure search
  • Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector
    • Other Cool Stuff
    IoT
    • AWS IoT SiteWise is expanding its transforms and formula expressions capabilities
  • AWS IoT SiteWise Edge now generally available
  • AWS SiteWise now supports custom time intervals for metric aggregations
  • Announcing support for new Timestamp function, PreTrigger function and ability to write nested expressions within aggregation functions (SiteWise)
  • Announcing support for exporting data from AWS IoT SiteWise to Amazon S3
    • The rest
    • The Amazon Chime SDK adds media capture pipelines to enable capture of meeting video, audio, and content streams
  • Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for real-time audio-video using a web browser
  • AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance
  • AWS Organizations increases quotas for tag policies
  • AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races
  • Amazon HealthLake is now Generally Available
  • Introducing AWS for Health
  • Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller | AWS News Blog
  • CloudFormation templates for Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (ARC) - GitHub
  • Amazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statistics
  • Amazon WorkSpaces now offers web access with WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP)
  • Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019
  • Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer Console
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