What's New in August 2020
Sep 07, 2020•58 min•Ep. 6
Episode description
Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano
The News Finally in Sydney- Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions
- Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions
- AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings
- AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2
- AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto)
- AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2
- AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source
- AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs
- Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names
- API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services
- Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs
- AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing
- AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing
- AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
- AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans
- Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems
- Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type
- AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration
- Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI
- Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer
- Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs
- Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available
- Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview
- Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
- Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API
- Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation
- AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management
- Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability
- CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support
- EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally
- AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints
- Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases
- AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support
- New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog
- Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On
- AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
- AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers
- New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog
- Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
- AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration
- AWS Glue now provides the ability to stop and restart your Glue workflows
- Amazon Neptune announces graph visualization in Neptune Workbench
- Amazon FSx for Lustre announces high-performance HDD-based shared storage for compute workloads
- Amazon ElastiCache announces support for resource-level permission policies
- Amazon ElastiCache for Redis Now Supports Up To 500 Nodes Per Cluster
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports SQL Server Major Version 2019
- AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule that deep dives into training an autoregressive CNN model
- Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
- Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability
- Quantum computing is now available on AWS through Amazon Braket
- AWS IoT Device Management increases the limit for concurrent Active Jobs to 1,000 per AWS account per region
- AWS IoT Core expands Custom Authentication options
- Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area
- Introducing Second Local Zone in Los Angeles, CA
- Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls
- Amazon Connect now returns agents to their previous status after finishing an outbound call
- Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer
- AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics
- Amazon SES now enables customers to bulk import and bulk delete email addresses from the account-level suppression list
- Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for playback authorization
- Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice
- Amazon SNS launches client library supporting message payloads of up to 2 GB
- Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
- AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability
- Amazon Connect adds support for early media on outbound phone calls