What's New in January 2021

In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation.

What's New Finally in Sydney

• PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions
• AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
• Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Regions
• Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions

Serverless Lambda

• AWS Compute Optimizer Now Delivers Recommendations For AWS Lambda Functions
• AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
• AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source
• AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
• AWS Lambda now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication for functions triggered from Amazon MSK

API Gateway

• Amazon API Gateway now supports data mapping in HTTP APIs

Containers Monitoring

• Join the Preview – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) | AWS News Blog
• Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview) | AWS News Blog
• Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes

General

• EC2 Image Builder now supports container images

ECS

• Amazon ECS announces the general availability of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker
• Amazon Elastic Container Service launches new management console
• Amazon ECS now supports VPC Endpoint policies
• Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster

EKS

• AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.1 now available with support for additional ELB configurations

EC2 & VPC Instances

• Announcing new Amazon EC2 C6gn instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors with 100 Gbps networking
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances Policy

EBS

• Multi-Attach support now available on Amazon EBS Provisioned IOPS volume type, io2
• Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now automates copying EBS snapshots across accounts

Networking

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
• Amazon EC2 API now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Lightsail

• Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6

Dev & Ops Dev

• AWS SDK for Go version 2 is now generally available
• AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available
• Porting Assistant for .NET supports automated code translation
• Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
• AWS App2Container now supports remote execution of containerization workflows
• AWS CodePipeline supports deployments with CloudFormation StackSets
• Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice

Ops

• Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager | AWS News Blog
• New – AWS Systems Manager Consolidates Application Management | AWS News Blog
• Introducing AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager

Security

• AWS Single Sign-On now supports Microsoft Active Directory (AD) synchronization
• Announcing Amazon Route 53 support for DNSSEC
• AWS Config launches ability to save advanced queries
• Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
• Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWS
• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports additional certificate customization
• Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics

Data storage & processing

• AWS Glue launches AWS Glue Custom Connectors
• Amazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instances
• New – AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System | AWS News Blog
• Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver - now in preview
• Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
• Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12
• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily

AI & ML

• Introducing Amazon SageMaker ml.P4d instances for highest performance ML training in the cloud

IoT

• New – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN to Connect, Manage, and Secure LoRaWAN Devices at Scale | AWS News Blog
• Announcing AWS IoT Greengrass 2.0 – With an Open Source Edge Runtime and New Developer Capabilities | AWS News Blog
• Announcing AWS IoT SiteWise Edge (Preview), a new capability of AWS IoT SiteWise to collect, process, and monitor industrial equipment data on-premises
• Announcing support for Alarms (Preview) in AWS IoT Events and AWS IoT SiteWise
• Introducing AWS IoT SiteWise plugin for Grafana
• AWS IoT Core Device Advisor now available in preview
• AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver data to Apache Kafka clusters
• AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for Modbus TCP and EtherNet/IP protocols with enhancements to OPC-UA data ingestion
• Introducing AWS IoT EduKit
• Announcing AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect public preview
• Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise

Other Cool Stuff Policy

• Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog

Services

• AWS CloudShell – Command-Line Access to AWS Resources | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Location – Add Maps and Location Awareness to Your Applications | AWS News Blog
• AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is now generally available

Features

• APIs now available for the AWS Well-Architected Tool
• Cost & Usage Report Now Available to Member (Linked) Accounts
• Announcing the availability of AWS Outposts Private Connectivity
• Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports Ethereum (Preview)
• AWS Snow Family now supports the Amazon Linux 2 operating system
• Service Quotas now supports tagging and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
• Amazon Lex Introduces an Enhanced Console Experience and New V2 APIs | AWS News Blog

SQS

• Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues (Preview)
• Amazon SQS announces tiered pricing

Control Tower

• region
• AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations
• AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update

The Nanos

• Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12
• Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 11 for Linux on ARM32 and for Windows on x86 (32-bit)
• Amazon Lightsail now supports IPv6
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses

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