September 27, 2021

What‘s New in June 2021

53 minutes

The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual.

News

Finally in Sydney

AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions

Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions

Serverless

Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs

AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles

Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions

Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems

AWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka

Containers

Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups

AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities

Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements

Customize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog

EC2 & VPC

AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications

Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIs

Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instances

AWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance

Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances

AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds

Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances - New features, improved performance and lower prices

Dev & Ops

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source

AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton

Introducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation | AWS News Blog

AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements

Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions | AWS News Blog

AWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager console

Security

Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS

AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring

AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions

AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts

KMS Multi-Region Keys

AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations

IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring

Data Storage & Processing

Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables

Announcing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)

AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings

Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster

AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts

File Access Auditing Is Now Available for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server | AWS News Blog

Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloning

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances

Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster

AI & ML

Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability

Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge

Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots

Connect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for Metrics

Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format - XLIFF documents

Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs

Other Cool Stuff

Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services

Amazon Location Service Is Now Generally Available with New Routing and Satellite Imagery Capabilities | AWS News Blog

New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN

Announcing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores

AWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability Zone

AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux

Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically

In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel | AWS News Blog

New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News Blog

The Nanos

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