#186: A Bumper Collection of Updates

This episode covers a bumper collection of things new and updated! Price reductions, new services, AI, ML, Big Data, FPGAs, Databases and more! The bumper list of shownotes: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/amazon-kinesis-firehose-announces-price-reduction-and-tiered-pricing-plan/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-price-reductions-reserved-instances-m4-instances/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-price-list-api-update-regional-price-lists/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-codestar/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/the-amazon-sqs-java-messaging-library-for-jms-now-supports-fifo-queues/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-server-side-encryption-for-amazon-simple-queue-service-sqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-lambda-supports-tagging-and-cost-allocations/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-lambda-supports-python-3-6/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-x-ray-update-general-availability-including-lambda-integration/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/amazon-cognito-now-supported-by-aws-cloudformation/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/announcing-vpc-endpoints-for-amazon-dynamodb-now-in-public-preview/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-inspector-update-assessment-reporting-proxy-support-and-more/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-redshift-spectrum-exabyte-scale-in-place-queries-of-s3-data/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/manage-query-workloads-with-query-monitoring-rules-in-amazon-redshift/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator-dax-in-memory-caching-for-read-intensive-workloads/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/amazon-ec2-f1-instances-customizable-fpgas-for-hardware-acceleration-are-now-generally-available/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-lex-now-generally-available/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rekognition-update-image-moderation/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-polly-speech-marks/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/introducing-an-easier-way-to-delegate-permissions-to-aws-services-service-linked-roles/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/how-to-remove-boilerplate-validation-logic-in-your-rest-apis-with-amazon-api-gateway-request-validation/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sign-up-today-preview-of-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-aurora-under-the-hood-fast-ddl/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/updates-to-presto-apache-zeppelin-apache-flink-and-hue-now-available-on-amazon-emr-release-5-5-0/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/launch-amazon-athena-adds-support-for-querying-encrypted-data/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-batch-managed-compute-environments-support-customer-provided-amis/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-marketplace-copy-to-service-catalog-is-now-available/