What's New in May 2021
Aug 12, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 15
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Episode description
Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown.
News Finally in Sydney😢
Serverless Lambda- Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3
- Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region
- AWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridge
- AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps
- Introducing CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale | AWS News Blog
- Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows
- Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20
- Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available
- Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs
- Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints
- EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy
- New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News Blog
- Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks
- AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)
- Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring
- Four new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options
- EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template
- Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy
- AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations
- AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations
- Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview
- Porting Assistant for .NET now available as a Visual Studio IDE extension
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports customer-managed customer master keys
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for scheduling
- AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless Applications
- AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
- Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter)
- Amazon DevOps Guru now generally available with additional capabilities
- Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events
- AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available
- Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources
- AWS Audit Manager now offers three new frameworks - NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected framework
- AWS WAF adds support for log filtering
- Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs
- Introducing IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK
- AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting
- AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management
- AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets
- Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing
- Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
- Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers AWS Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances
- AWS Data Provider for SAP Version 4.0 now available
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups
- New – Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog
- AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC)
- Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview
- Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier
- AWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and Authentication
- Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers
- Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- AWS Transfer Family now supports Microsoft Active Directory
- Amazon RDS for Oracle supports multitenant container database
- Amazon Aurora MySQL Improves Availability of Read Replicas
- Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
- Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0
- AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML
- Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression
- AWS Launch Wizard adds support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances deployed on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
- Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs
- Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more models
- Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
- Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model
- Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines
- Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points
- Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Experiments
- Amazon Kendra releases Query Suggestions
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%
- New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services | AWS News Blog
- New Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- AWS Organizations launches new console experience
- Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights
- AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity
- How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations | AWS News Blog
- AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support
- Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
- AWS Application Cost Profiler
- AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones
- Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android
- Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management, a new, easy way to monitor & interact with IoT device fleets, is now generally available
- In the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) | AWS News Blog
- Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters
- Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health
- Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers(Arjen)
- Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android (Guy)
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