Melbourne AWS User Group

What's New in June 2020

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AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts.

The News
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  • Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available 
  • Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East 
    • Serverless
    • AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available
  • Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
  • AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos
  • Swift Lambda support (Apple supported through WWDC sessions)
  • Amplify Console adds support for automatically creating and deleting custom sub-domains for every branch deployment
    • Containers
    • Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances
  • AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support
  • Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality
  • Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
  • AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available
    • EC2 & VPC
    • AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing
  • Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
  • Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs
  • Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups
  • ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces .NET Core on Linux Platform
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables 
  • Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available 
    • Security
    • AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules
  • AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events
  • Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup
  • AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization
  • AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation
  • AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account data protection management and monitoring
    • Dev & Ops
    • Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing Amazon Honeycode
  • Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance
  • AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types
  • EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink
  • AWS CodeCommit now supports Emoji Reactions to Comments
  • AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type 
    • Databases
    • Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding
  • AWS Data Migration Service now supports copying graph data from relational sources to Amazon Neptune
  • Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
  • Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems
  • Announcing storage controls for schemas in Amazon Redshift
  • Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility
  • Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
  • Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
  • CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations
  • Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica
  • Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables
  • Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility
    • AI & ML
    • DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge
  • Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines
  • AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach
  • Now Install Custom Kernels and Data Science Libraries on EMR clusters directly from EMR Notebooks
  • Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce
  • Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
  • Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration
    • Other Cool Stuff
    • AWS announces AWS Snowcone - a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
  • Amazon Route 53 Launches New API Action to list Private Hosted Zones associated with your Amazon VPCs
  • Real-time anomaly detection support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
  • Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block
  • Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts
  • Amazon SES can now send notifications when the delivery of an email is delayed
  • Enable WebRTC simulcast to improve video performance for applications built with the Amazon Chime SDK
  • Amazon Connect now supports higher-quality, natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices
  • Amazon Polly launches a child US English NTTS Voice

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