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What's New in March 2021

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Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month.

News
Finally in Sydney
  • AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia
  • AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions
  • Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions
  • Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
  • Get to know the first new AWS Heroes of 2021! | AWS News Blog(Community Hero Zainab Maleki from Perth)
    • Serverless
    Lambda
    • Introducing Amazon S3 Object Lambda – Use Your Code to Process Data as It Is Being Retrieved from S3 | AWS News Blog
  • The AWS Lambda console now features a new navigation design
  • AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks
    • Step Functions
    • AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML
  • Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS
    • EventBridge
    • Amazon EventBridge introduces support for API Destinations
    Containers
    ECS
    • Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate
  • AWS - Session Manager and ECS Exec | ig.nore.me
  • AWS Copilot launches v1.4 with support for ECS exec and more
    • EKS
    • Amazon EKS reduces control plane creation time for EKS clusters by 40%
  • Amazon EKS now supports adding KMS envelope encryption to existing clusters to enhance security for secrets
  • Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation
  • Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances
  • Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter
  • Amazon EFS CSI driver now supports dynamic provisioning
    • Other
    • AWS Cloud Map now supports API-only services in namespaces configured with DNS resolution
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Now GA | AWS News Blog
    • EC2 & VPC
    EC2
    • Troubleshoot Boot and Networking Issues with New EC2 Serial Console | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing new Amazon EC2 X2gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling adds support for local time zones for scheduled scaling
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports phased deployments
  • Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
    • VPC
    • Amazon VPC Flow Logs now reflects AWS Service name, Traffic Path and Flow Direction
  • Amazon Timestream now supports Amazon VPC endpoints
    • Dev & Ops
    CICD
    • AWS CodePipeline now supports 1000 pipelines per account
  • AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines
  • AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
  • AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization
    • Systems Manager
    • AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now displays an aggregated view of all operational issues for a specified resource
  • AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvals
    • Other
    • Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
  • Amazon EventBridge now supports propagation of X-Ray trace context
  • Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android
  • Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 16
  • AWS announces Developer Preview release of opinionated deployment tool for .NET CLI
    • Security
    Security Hub
    • AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard
  • AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management
    • Config
    • AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager
  • AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions
    • WAF
    • AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging
  • AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses
  • AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
    • Other
    • AWS CloudTrail Adds Logging of Data Events for Amazon DynamoDB
  • AWS Certificate Manager now provides certificate expiry monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch
  • AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions
  • IAM Access Analyzer Update – Policy Validation | AWS News Blog
  • New AWS SSO gallery app simplifies Azure AD set-up with AWS
  • AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework
    • Data Storage & Processing
    S3
    • Amazon S3 Glacier Price Reduction | AWS News Blog
  • AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts
    • Databases
    • Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances
  • Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
  • AWS Backup adds support for continuous backup and point-in-time recovery of Amazon RDS instances
  • Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups
  • Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports rollback protection for database major version upgrades
  • Amazon RDS Proxy adds read-only endpoints for Amazon Aurora Replicas
  • Amazon RDS Proxy now supports database connectivity from multiple Amazon VPCs
  • Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Cross-database queries
  • Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Data Sharing
  • Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
    • Other
    • New – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability
  • Amazon Elasticsearch Service now publishes events to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge for service software updates
  • AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL
  • AWS Backup adds support for bulk deletion of recovery points
  • AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product
    • AI & ML
    SageMaker
    • Announcing support for multiple containers on Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints, leading to cost savings of up to 80%
  • Leverage state of the art Natural Language Processing with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication
  • Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability
    • Other
    • Detect anomalies in your metrics, and diagnose issues quickly with Amazon Lookout for Metrics – now generally available
  • Announcing General Availability of AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect
  • Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast
  • Amazon Transcribe supports word-level confidence scores for streaming transcription
    • Other Cool Stuff
    Regions
    • AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region Now Open to All, with Three AZs and More Services | AWS News Blog
    Connect
    • Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports data sources from Amazon S3
  • Amazon Connect now supports 15 minute intervals for historical metric reporting
  • Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website
    • Other Services/Features
    • AWS Fault Injection Simulator – Use Controlled Experiments to Boost Resilience | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing General Availability of Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain
  • Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces
  • AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications
    • The Nanos
    • AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version(Arjen)
  • AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions(Jean-Manuel)
    • Sponsors
    Gold Sponsor Innablr
    Silver Sponsors
    • AC3
  • CMD Solutions
  • DoIT International
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