What's New in March 2020
Apr 08, 2020•40 min•Ep. 1
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In our first episode we go through an extended version of our usual What's New segment of the podcast. For this, Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy. This episode was recorded on the evening of the 27th of March 2020 (Australian time).
COVID-19- Working From Home? Here’s How AWS Can Help | AWS News Blog
- Remote Work & Learning | Amazon Web Services (see the offers section for the extended free tiers)
- Amazon’s COVID-19 blog: daily updates on how we’re responding to the crisis
- COVID-19 Global Hackathon 1.0: #BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon - Devpost
- AWS Control Tower now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
- Amazon Forecast is now available in three new regions - Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai) and Europe (Frankfurt)
- AWS Migration Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
- AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x and Python 3.8
- AWS Serverless Application Repository adds support for sharing applications with AWS organizations
- API Gateway offers private integrations with AWS ELB and AWS CloudMap as part of HTTP APIs GA release
- Amplify Console adds command line interface for configuring continuous deployment and hosting
- Now proactively manage your ECR API use with CloudWatch Metrics and Service Quotas
- Amazon EKS adds envelope encryption for secrets with AWS KMS
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15
- Announcing Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches Docker on AL2 Platform (Beta)
- AWS App Mesh launches support for end to end encryption
- Amazon ECS supports in Preview updating Placement Strategy and Constraints for existing ECS Services
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation now Lets you Pause and Resume Your Workloads on T2 Instance Types
- Announcing 36% faster EBS-optimized performance on additional AWS Nitro System-based Amazon EC2 instances
- Amazon Lightsail now supports resource monitoring, alarming and notifications
- Use Amazon VPC Endpoint Policies for granular control of Amazon EC2 APIs
- AWS Secrets Manager now supports larger size for secrets and higher request rate for GetSecretValue API
- Introducing AWS Config multi-account, multi-region support for advanced query
- AWS WAF adds Anonymous IP List for AWS Managed Rules
- Amazon GuardDuty Price Reduction
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports certificate authentication for connections to AWS Transit Gateway
- Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) Adds Support For 1 hour Backup Interval
- AWS CodeCommit Introduces git-remote-codecommit, a New Git Credential Helper
- Introducing Customizations for AWS Control Tower solution
- Execute Chef recipes on Linux with AWS Systems Manager
- AWS Control Tower now supports single-step account provisioning
- AWS AppConfig announces integration with Amazon S3
- Amazon CloudWatch now allows you to combine multiple alarms
- NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now generally available
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports User Authentication with Kerberos and Microsoft Active Directory
- New AWS Certification validates expertise in AWS databases
- Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
- Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility supports Amazon Aurora Global Database
- Amazon Redshift launches pause and resume
- Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces Global Datastore
- Announcing column-level access control for Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic content redaction
- Announcing Time Expression for Amazon Comprehend Medical
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports Multi-Label Image and Text Classification and Amazon CloudWatch Events
- Introducing Amazon Personalize Optimizer Using Amazon Pinpoint Events
- AWS RoboMaker simulation now supports GUI streaming for robot and simulation applications
- You can now take all AWS Certification exams with online proctoring. See the AWS Certification FAQs
- AWS Cost Explorer now offers Savings Plans Recommendations for Member (Linked) Accounts
- AWS adds the ability for customers to enable AWS Local Zones themselves
- AWS Global Accelerator now supports Bring Your Own IP Addresses and Resource Tagging
- AWS Console Mobile Application Launches a New Android Version
- Amazon Connect announces per-second billing, saving customers up to 5% in telephony costs
- Amazon Connect makes it easier to customize the caller experience by adding attributes to existing contact flow blocks
- Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for native application mode on Windows PCs
- Automate index management with Amazon Elasticsearch Service
- Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI Driver Supports New File System Deployment Options
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch versions 7.4
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