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What’s new in October 2021

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A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.

News
Finally in Sydney
  • Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions
  • Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
    • Serverless
    Lambda
    • AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account
  • AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
    • Step Functions
    • Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog
  • AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
    • Amplify
    • Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify
  • AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage
    • Other
    • Accelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute Blog
    Containers
    • Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket
  • AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
  • Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers
  • Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS
  • Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads
  • AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
  • AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets
  • AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available
    • EC2 & VPC
    • New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units
  • Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types
  • Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags
  • Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
  • AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
  • Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files
  • Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
  • New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases
    • Dev & Ops
    CLI
    • AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog
  • Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
    • CodeGuru
    • Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer
  • Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit
  • Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features
    • IaC
    • AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control
  • AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager
    • Other
    • NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
  • Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates
  • Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
  • AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions
  • AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions
    • Security
    Firewalls
    • AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs
  • AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop
    • Backups
    • AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports
  • AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock
    • Other
    • AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture
  • Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys
  • AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements
    • Data Storage & Processing
    • Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog
  • Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project
  • Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
  • AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD
  • Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console
  • AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls
  • Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled
  • Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas
  • AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications
  • Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
  • New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog
    • AI & ML
    SageMaker
    • Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker
  • Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates
  • Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys
    • Other
    • Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages
  • Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets
  • AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions
  • Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection
  • Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription
  • Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing
  • Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models
    • Other Cool Stuff
    • AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration
  • AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies
  • VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog
  • AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring
  • Amazon Monitron launches iOS app
  • Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing
  • Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards
  • Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities
  • Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers
  • Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically
  • New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift
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