What’s new in October 2021

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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