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What’s New in November and at re:Invent 2021

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Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too.

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News
Finally in Sydney
  • AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
  • Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regions
    • Serverless
    • Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless in preview
  • Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand
  • Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview)
  • Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public preview
  • Introducing Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (preview)
  • Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability
  • Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet type
  • AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview)
    • Lambda
    • AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source
  • AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry
  • AWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
  • AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events
    • Step Functions
    • AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLink
    Amplify
    • Introducing AWS Amplify Studio
  • AWS Amplify announces the ability to override Amplify-generated resources using CDK
  • AWS Amplify announces the ability to add custom AWS resources to Amplify-created backends using CDK and CloudFormation
  • AWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and Vue
  • AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelines
  • AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview)
  • AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quickly
    • Containers
    Fargate
    • Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
    ECS
    • Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information
  • Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling
  • Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source project
  • Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
    • EKS
    • Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter
  • Amazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormation
  • Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available
  • AWS Karpenter v0.5 Now Generally Available
  • AWS customers can now find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party applications that run in any Kubernetes environment from AWS Marketplace
    • Other
    • Amazon ECR announces pull through cache repositories
  • AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images
    • EC2 & VPC
    Instances
    • New – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing new Amazon EC2 G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
  • Introducing Amazon EC2 R6i instances
  • Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances
  • Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumes
  • Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey
  • Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS
  • Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022
  • Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types
  • Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances
  • Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors
  • Announcing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
  • Introducing the AWS Graviton Ready Program
  • Introducing Amazon EC2 M6a instances
  • AWS Compute Optimizer now offers enhanced infrastructure metrics, a new feature for EC2 recommendations
  • AWS Compute Optimizer now offers resource efficiency metrics
    • Networking
    • AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
  • Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer end-to-end IPv6 support
  • AWS Transit Gateway introduces intra-region peering for simplified cloud operations and network connectivity
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces IP Address Manager (IPAM) to help simplify IP address management on AWS
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) announces Network Access Analyzer to help you easily identify unintended network access
  • Introducing AWS Cloud WAN Preview
  • Introducing AWS Direct Connect SiteLink
    • Other
    • Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin
  • Amazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75%
  • Amazon CloudFront now supports configurable CORS, security, and custom HTTP response headers
  • Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase
  • Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing
  • AWS announces a new capability to switch license types for Windows Server and SQL Server applications on Amazon EC2
  • AWS Batch introduces fair-share scheduling
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Predictive Scaling with Custom Metrics
    • Dev & Ops
    New services
    • Measure and Improve Your Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub | AWS News Blog
  • Scalable, Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing general availability of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
  • AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in preview
  • Announcing Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, an ML-powered capability that automatically detects and diagnoses performance and operational issues within Amazon Aurora
  • Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)
  • Introducing Amazon CloudWatch RUM for monitoring applications’ client-side performance
    • IaC
    • AWS announces Construct Hub general availability
  • AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 is now generally available
  • You can now import your AWS CloudFormation stacks into a CloudFormation stack set
  • You can now submit multiple operations for simultaneous execution with AWS CloudFormation StackSets
  • AWS CDK releases v1.126.0 - v1.130.0 with high-level APIs for AWS App Runner and hotswap support for Amazon ECS and AWS Step Functions
    • SDKs
    • AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)
  • AWS SDK for Kotlin (Developer Preview)
  • AWS SDK for Rust (Developer Preview)
    • CICD
    • AWS Proton now supports Terraform Open Source for infrastructure provisioning
  • AWS Proton introduces Git management of infrastructure as code templates
  • AWS App2Container now supports Jenkins for setting up a CI/CD pipeline
    • Other
    • Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now detects hardcoded secrets in Java and Python repositories
  • EC2 Image Builder enables sharing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with AWS Organizations and Organization Units
  • Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced
  • Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations
  • AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types
  • AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.
  • AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web applications hosted in an Amazon VPC
  • Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressions
  • Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Evidently for feature experimentation and safer launches
  • New – Amazon CloudWatch Evidently – Experiments and Feature Management | AWS News Blog
  • Introducing AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET
    • Security
    • AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account
  • AWS CloudTrail announces ErrorRate Insights
  • AWS announces the new Amazon Inspector for continual vulnerability management
  • Amazon SQS Announces Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS)
  • AWS WAF adds support for Captcha
  • AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation
    • Security Hub
    • AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs
  • AWS Security Hub adds three new FSBP controls and three new partners
    • SSO
    • Manage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-On
  • Manage Access Centrally for JumpCloud Users with AWS Single Sign-On
  • AWS Single Sign-On now provides one-click login to Amazon EC2 instances running Microsoft Windows
  • AWS Single Sign-On is now in scope for AWS SOC reporting
    • Control Tower
    • AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails
  • AWS Control Tower now supports nested organizational units
  • AWS Control Tower now provides controls to meet data residency requirements
  • Deny services and operations for AWS Regions of your choice with AWS Control Tower
  • AWS Control Tower introduces Terraform account provisioning and customization
    • Data Storage & Processing
    Databases
    Relational databases
    • Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server
  • New Multi-AZ deployment option for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and for MySQL; increased read capacity, lower and more consistent write transaction latency, and shorter failover time (Preview)
  • Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots
  • Amazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0
  • Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports backups on AWS Outposts
    • Athena
    • Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans
  • Amazon Athena announces cross-account federated query
  • New and improved Amazon Athena console is now generally available
  • Amazon Athena now supports new Lake Formation fine-grained security and reliable table features
  • Announcing Amazon Athena ACID transactions, powered by Apache Iceberg (Preview)
    • Redshift
    • Announcing preview for write queries with Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling
  • Amazon Redshift announces native support for SQLAlchemy and Apache Airflow open-source frameworks
  • Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of other AWS services by introducing the default IAM role
  • Announcing Amazon Redshift cross-region data sharing (preview)
  • Announcing preview of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2
    • Neptune
    • Announcing AWS Graviton2-based instances for Amazon Neptune
  • AWS releases open source JDBC driver to connect to Amazon Neptune
    • MemoryDB
    • Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances and a 2-month Free Trial
    Database Migration Service
    • AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel load for partitioned data to S3
  • AWS Database Migration Service now supports Kafka multi-topic
  • AWS Database Migration Service now supports Azure SQL Managed Instance as a source
  • AWS Database Migration Service now supports Google Cloud SQL for MySQL as a source
  • Introducing AWS DMS Fleet Advisor for automated discovery and analysis of database and analytics workloads (Preview)
  • AWS Database Migration Service now offers a new console experience, AWS DMS Studio
  • AWS Database Migration Service now supports Time Travel, an improved logging mechanism
    • Other
    • Database Activity Streams now supports Graviton2-based instances
  • Amazon Timestream now offers faster and more cost-effective time series data processing through scheduled queries, multi-measure records, and magnetic storage writes
  • Amazon DynamoDB announces the new Amazon DynamoDB Standard-Infrequent Access table class, which helps you reduce your DynamoDB costs by up to 60 percent
  • Achieve up to 30% better performance with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using new Graviton2 instances
    • S3
    • Amazon S3 on Outposts now delivers strong consistency automatically for all applications
  • Amazon S3 Lifecycle further optimizes storage cost savings with new actions and filters
  • Announcing the new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class - the lowest cost archive storage with milliseconds retrieval
  • Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists to simplify access management for data in S3
  • Amazon S3 Glacier storage class is now Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval; storage price reduced by 10% and bulk retrievals are now free
  • Announcing the new S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Instant Access tier - Automatically save up to 68% on storage costs
  • Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you build advanced serverless applications faster
  • Amazon S3 console now reports security warnings, errors, and suggestions from IAM Access Analyzer as you author your S3 policies
  • Amazon S3 adds new S3 Event Notifications for S3 Lifecycle, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, object tags, and object access control lists
    • Glue
    • AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow
  • AWS Glue DataBrew now supports custom SQL statements to retrieve data from Amazon Redshift and Snowflake
  • AWS Glue DataBrew now allows customers to create data quality rules to define and validate their business requirements
    • FSx
    • Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
  • Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports linking multiple Amazon S3 buckets to a file system
  • Amazon FSx for Lustre can now automatically update file system contents as data is deleted and moved in Amazon S3
  • Announcing the next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems
    • Backup
    • Announcing preview of AWS Backup for Amazon S3
  • AWS Backup adds support for Amazon Neptune
  • AWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
  • AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policies
  • AWS Backup adds support for VMware workloads
    • Other
    • AWS Lake Formation now supports AWS PrivateLink
  • AWS Transfer Family adds identity provider options and enhanced monitoring capabilities
  • Introducing ability to connect to EMR clusters in different subnets in EMR Studio
  • AWS Snow Family now supports external NTP server configuration
  • Announcing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
  • Now execute python files and notebooks from another notebook in EMR Studio
  • AWS Snow Family launches offline tape data migration capability
    • AI & ML
    SageMaker
    • Introducing Amazon SageMaker Canvas - a visual, no-code interface to build accurate machine learning models
  • Announcing Fully Managed RStudio on Amazon SageMaker for Data Scientists | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon SageMaker now supports inference testing with custom domains and headers from SageMaker Studio
  • Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports retry policies and resume
  • Announcing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints
  • Amazon announces new NVIDIA Triton Inference Server on Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now integrates with SageMaker Model Monitor and SageMaker Clarify
  • Amazon SageMaker now supports cross-account lineage tracking and multi-hop lineage querying
  • Introducing Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender
  • Introducing Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus: Create high-quality training datasets without having to build labeling applications or manage the labeling workforce on your own
  • Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab (currently in preview), a free, no-configuration ML service
  • Amazon SageMaker Studio now enables interactive data preparation and machine learning at scale within a single universal notebook through built-in integration with Amazon EMR
    • Other
    • General Availability of Syne Tune, an open-source library for distributed hyperparameter and neural architecture optimization
  • Amazon Translate now supports AWS KMS Encryption
  • Amazon Kendra releases AWS Single Sign-On integration for secure search
  • Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions
  • AWS AI for data analytics (AIDA) partner solutions
  • Introducing Amazon Lex Automated Chatbot Designer (Preview)
  • Amazon Kendra launches Experience Builder, Search Analytics Dashboard, and Custom Document Enrichment
    • Other Cool Stuff
    • In The Works – AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region | AWS News Blog
  • Unified Search in the AWS Management Console now includes blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials
  • AWS DeepRacer introduces multi-user account management
  • Amazon Pinpoint launches in-app messaging as a new communications channel
  • Amazon AppStream 2.0 Introduces Linux Application Streaming
  • Amazon SNS now supports publishing batches of up to 10 messages in a single API request
  • Announcing usability improvements in the navigation bar of the AWS Management Console
  • Announcing General Availability of Enterprise On-Ramp
  • Announcing preview of AWS Private 5G
  • AWS Outposts is Now Available in Two Smaller Form Factors
  • Introducing AWS Mainframe Modernization - Preview
  • Introducing the AWS Migration and Modernization Competency
  • Announcing AWS Data Exchange for APIs
  • Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Amazon WorkSpaces Web
  • Amazon SQS Enhances Dead-letter Queue Management Experience For Standard Queues
  • Introducing AWS re:Post, a new, community-driven, questions-and-answers service
  • AWS Resource Access Manager enables support for global resource types
  • AWS Ground Station launches expanded support for Software Defined Radios in Preview
  • Announcing Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs for running hybrid quantum-classical workloads on Amazon Braket
  • Introducing AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces - Preview
    • Well-Architected Framework
    • Customize your AWS Well-Architected Review using Custom Lenses
  • New Sustainability Pillar for the AWS Well-Architected Framework
    • IoT
    • Announcing AWS IoT RoboRunner, Now Available in Preview
  • AWS IoT Greengrass now supports Microsoft Windows devices
  • AWS IoT Core now supports Multi-Account Registration certificates on IoT Credential Provider endpoint
  • Announcing AWS IoT FleetWise (Preview), a new service for transferring vehicle data to the cloud more efficiently
  • Announcing AWS IoT TwinMaker (Preview), a service that makes it easier to build digital twins
  • AWS IoT SiteWise now supports hot and cold storage tiers for industrial data
  • New connectivity software, AWS IoT ExpressLink, accelerates IoT development (Preview)
  • AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports two additional data sources (Preview)
    • Connect
    • Amazon Connect now enables you to create and orchestrate tasks directly from Flows
  • Amazon Connect launches scheduled tasks
  • Amazon Connect launches Contact APIs to fetch and update contact details programmatically
  • Amazon Connect launches API to configure security profiles programmatically
  • Amazon Connect launches APIs to archive and delete contact flows
  • Amazon Connect now supports contact flow modules to simplify repeatable logic
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