What's New in May 2020

Another month, another long list of AWS releases. And once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take a look at what's new and give their opinions, whether those are appreciated or not. This episode was recorded on 29 May, but unfortunately had some delays in editing.

The News Finally in Sydney

• Announcing major enhancements to Amazon Macie, an 80%+ price reduction, and global region expansion
• Amazon Fraud Detector Preview is now available in Ohio, Ireland, Singapore and Sydney AWS Regions
• AWS Inter-Region Data Transfer (DTIR) Price Reduction | AWS News Blog
• Amazon RDS Data API and Amazon RDS Query Editor are available in additional regions
• Amazon RDS Proxy (Preview) Now Available in 8 Additional AWS Regions

Serverless

• Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available
• AWS Step Functions now supports AWS CodeBuild service integration and CodePipeline supports invoking Step Functions with a new action type
• Control your email flows in Amazon WorkMail using AWS Lambda
• AWS SAM adds support for AWS Step Functions
• Announcing General Availability of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android, with new authentication, data, and AI/ML support

Containers

• Amazon EKS Improves Cluster Creation and Management in the AWS Console
• Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.16
• ECR now supports Manifest Lists for multi-architecture images
• Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics - Now in Beta
• Introducing the CDK for Kubernetes, a New Software Development Framework and Open Source Project for Defining Kubernetes Applications Using Code
• AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
• Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Environment files for the EC2 launch type
• AWS Fargate now encrypts data stored on ephemeral storage by default in platform version 1.4

EC2 & VPC

• Amazon SES now offers VPC Endpoint support for SMTP Endpoints
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Node.js, PHP, Go, and Ruby Platforms
• Announcing Route Analyzer in AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager
• AWS License Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6)
• Add enriched metadata to Amazon VPC flow logs published to CloudWatch Logs and S3
• Amazon EC2 now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
• Amazon EC2 M6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
• Enhanced monitoring capabilities for AWS Direct Connect
• Amazon EFS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%

Security

• AWS Single Sign-On supports zero-downtime external IdP certificate rotation
• AWS Artifact service launches new user interface
• Introducing the Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security
• AWS Client VPN now supports Federated Authentication via SAML 2.0
• AWS Backup supports new options for customizing backup selections
• Manage access to AWS centrally for Okta users with AWS Single Sign-On
• Now deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs across an organization from a delegated member account
• Network Load Balancer now supports TLS ALPN Policies

Dev & Ops

• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer launches new, more cost-effective pricing model
• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces availability of hourly recommendation reports to remediate issues quickly
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces pull request dashboard
• AWS Cloud9 is now available with a new default theme
• Amazon CodeGuru announces -javaagent switch to start Profiler
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces support for Bitbucket repositories and enhancements
• AWS CodeBuild Test Reporting is now Generally Available
• AWS Systems Manager now supports resource groups as targets for State Manager

Databases

• NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB adds support for Linux
• Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility
• Neptune Streams feature is now available outside of lab mode
• AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Expression-Based Data Transformations
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bulk Insert on highly available DB Instances using Amazon S3 Integration
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

AI/ML

• AWS DeepComposer announces real-time visualizations for in-console model training and improved interactivity in learning capsules
• Amazon Kendra is now generally available
• Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers with Amazon Elastic Inference for TensorFlow and PyTorch  Training and Inference For TensorFlow
• Amazon Transcribe now supports vocabulary filtering for real-time transcription

Other cool stuff

• AWS announces Amazon Elasticsearch Service UltraWarm general availability
• AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of Trusted Advisor checks
• Introducing AWS Trusted Advisor Explorer
• AWS Trusted Advisor adds 5 Cost Optimization checks
• AWS announces a 90%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Device Management Jobs
• Amazon Chime adds new policies to govern meeting access
• Introducing AWS Elemental Media Event Management
• Amazon Connect Now automatically changes Agent Status to Offline on Logout
• Now Query for AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

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