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What’s New in September 2021

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After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well.

As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks.

News
Finally in ANZ
  • Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions
  • Ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customers
  • Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in 17 additional public regions
  • In the Works – AWS Region in New Zealand | AWS News Blog
    • Serverless
    • AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance | AWS News Blog
  • Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry
  • AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands
    • Containers
    • Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available to Create and Manage Kubernetes Clusters on Premises | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EKS Connector is now in public preview
  • AWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulation
  • Amazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts
  • Amazon ECR Public adds the ability to launch containers directly to AWS App Runner
    • EC2 & VPC
    Instances
    • Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together
  • New – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts in multiple AWS Regions
  • AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances
  • AWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI products
  • Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34
  • AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2
    • VPC
    • IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server
  • Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list
  • Amazon VPC Routing Enhancements Allow You to Inspect Traffic Between Subnets In a VPC | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC
  • Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth
  • Application Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer | Networking & Content Delivery
    • Other
    • AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection
  • Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
    • Dev & Ops
    Dev
    • Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features | AWS News Blog
  • EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications
  • Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectors
  • AWS CDK releases v1.117.0 - v1.120.0 with improved support for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, and more
  • AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type
  • Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer enhances security findings generated by GitHub Action by adding severity fields and CWE tags
  • Amazon Corretto 17 is now generally available
  • AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web apps on Microsoft Edge browser
    • Ops
    • New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure | AWS News Blog
  • AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities
  • AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now supports third-party calendar imports, giving you a more holistic view of events
  • AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on Demand
  • Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experience
  • Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard
    • ADOT
    • New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
  • AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)
    • Security
    • ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
  • IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services
  • Amazon Macie adds support for selecting managed data identifiers
    • WAF
    • AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering
  • AWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressions
  • AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF rate-based rules
    • Detective
    • Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration
  • Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details
    • Data Storage & Processing
    Opensearch
    • Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 | AWS News Blog
  • OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series data
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index Transforms
  • Migrating to OpenSearch with CloudFormation – One Cloud Please
    • Databases
    • Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances
  • Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g instances
  • Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeout
  • Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
  • Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
  • Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
  • AQUA is now available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes
  • New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune
  • Announcing general availability of Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying
  • Amazon Redshift announces the next generation of Amazon Redshift Query Editor
    • Storage
    • New – Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering Optimizes Costs for Workloads with Changing Access Patterns | AWS News Blog
  • How to Accelerate Performance and Availability of Multi-region Applications with Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points | AWS News Blog
  • AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A — shufflesharding.com
  • Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small Objects | AWS News Blog
  • New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots
    • MSK
    • Introducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors | AWS News Blog
  • Amazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settings
    • Other
    • Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On
  • Now auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower cost
    • AI & ML
    SageMaker
    • Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines
  • Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks
  • Amazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker Studio
  • Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problems
    • Other
    • Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend
  • Amazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancements
  • Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice
    • Other Cool Stuff
    • Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards
  • Amazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now available
  • Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storage
  • Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device
  • Amazon Pinpoint now supports encrypted SNS topics for inbound SMS
  • Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits
  • AWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API Gateway
  • Amazon SES now supports emails with a message size of up to 40MB
  • AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity
  • AWS Ground Station announces Licensing Accelerator
  • New – Amazon Genomics CLI Is Now Open Source and Generally Available | AWS News Blog
    • Connect
    • Amazon Connect Wisdom is now generally available
  • Contact Lens for Amazon Connect adds support for 8 languages
  • Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface
  • Amazon Connect Customer Profiles adds product purchase history to personalize customer interactions
  • Amazon Connect Voice ID is now generally available
  • Amazon Connect now offers, in Public Preview, high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails
    • IoT
    • AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements
  • AWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-Click
  • AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification states
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