What's New in July 2020
Aug 17, 2020•56 min•Ep. 5
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Episode description
July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all.
The News Finally in Sydney- AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region
- AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
- AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level
- Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use
- Amplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code assets across Lambda functions
- Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection
- AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications | AWS News Blog
- Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS
- Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17
- AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways
- Introducing Ingress support in AWS App Mesh | Containers (detailed blogpost)
- Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available
- Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas
- Fluent bit container logs to Elastcsearch
- ECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keys
- Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
- Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances
- AWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoring
- EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs
- EC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatch
- Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers
- Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create
- New – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel WHM instance blueprint
- AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration
- Find Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Announcing the Porting Assistant for .NET | AWS News Blog
- AWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy Agent
- Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications
- CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications | AWS Developer Blog (detailed blogpost)
- CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support
- AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager
- AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting
- AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project
- Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code
- Amazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations
- AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups
- AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API
- AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules
- AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies
- Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager
- Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections
- Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility
- Now gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management Console
- Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization
- AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs
- Amazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughput
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instances
- AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway
- AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway
- Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLink
- Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery (PITR)
- Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs | AWS News Blog
- Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copy
- Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System
- New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management
- Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100%
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy ranking
- AWS DataSync adds support for on-premises object storage | AWS News Blog
- HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB Instances
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic, Datadog, HTTP endpoints, and MongoDB Cloud
- AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase
- Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition
- Amazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadata
- Amazon EMR now supports encrypting log files using Customer-managed CMKs in AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 10X more items
- Amazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower cost
- New – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | AWS News Blog
- Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Kendra
- AWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS)
- Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition
- Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging
- Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers
- Amazon Translate now supports Office documents | AWS News Blog
- New – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog
- Announcing the New AWS Community Builders Program! | AWS News Blog
- AWS IoT SiteWise – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites | AWS News Blog
- Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available
- Recording of the Connect/Contact Lens talk by Rian Brooks-Kane at the User Group (starts around 50 minutes)
- AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device
- Amazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-up
- Amazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsers
- AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower
- Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool
- Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs
- Introducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)
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