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What's New in September 2020

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A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake?

The News

 

Finally in ANZ
  • Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English
  • Urban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottle
  • Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific regions
  • Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions
  • Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries - Mexico and New Zealand
    • Serverless
    • AWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KB
  • API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization options
  • AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray
  • AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
  • Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication
  • mTLS auth with AWS API Gateway | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
  • Mutual TLS auth with AWS API Gateway Part 2 - check certificate revocation | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
  • Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema
    • Containers
    • Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
  • EKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormation
  • Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods
  • Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments
  • AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop
  • Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI - Docker Blog
  • Amazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
    • EC2 & VPC
    • New EC2 T4g Instances – Burstable Performance Powered by AWS Graviton2 – Try Them for Free | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the run
  • Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract
  • Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLink
  • Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints
  • Application Load Balancers now support AWS Outposts
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environments
  • Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2
    • Dev & Ops
    • AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu
  • AWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for Java
  • AWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in preview
  • Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces
  • Systems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicks
  • Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports enhanced monitoring for Broken Link and GUI Workflow Blueprints
  • Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression
  • AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources
  • Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0
  • Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15
    • Security
    • AWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access management
  • Fixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation | ig.nore.me
  • GitHub - ArjenSchwarz/awstools: A little application to help with more complex AWS functions
  • cloudformation-macros/SSOFixer at master · ArjenSchwarz/cloudformation-macros · GitHub
  • Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs
  • Amazon CloudFront announces real-time logs
  • Amazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connections
  • Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing
  • AWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery Points
  • Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM
  • Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis
  • Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy
  • AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2
  • Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview)
    • Storage & Databases
    • Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster
  • Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
  • Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB
  • Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances
  • Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles (LA)
  • Now it's even easier to connect JetBrains IDEs to Amazon RDS or Redshift Databases
  • Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients
    • AI & ML
    • Amazon Textract supports customer S3 buckets
    Other Cool Stuff
    • AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events
  • Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Microsoft Office Professional bundle for Bring Your Own Windows License WorkSpaces
  • Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection
  • Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs
  • Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance
  • Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically
  • AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry
  • Introducing AWS Perspective
  • Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC
  • Queuing purchases of Savings Plans
  • Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing
  • The D-Wave 2000Q (PDF)
    • The Nano Candidates
    • Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances (Jean-Manuel)
  • AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas (Guy)
  • AWS IQ now provides short URLs for expert profiles (Arjen)

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