What’s new in October 2021
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 19
Episode description
A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.
News Finally in Sydney- Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions
- Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
- AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account
- AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
- Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog
- AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
- Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify
- AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage
- Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket
- AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
- Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers
- Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS
- Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads
- AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
- AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets
- AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available
- New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags
- Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
- AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files
- Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
- New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases
- AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog
- Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
- Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer
- Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features
- AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control
- AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager
- NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
- Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates
- Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs
- AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop
- AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports
- AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock
- AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture
- Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys
- AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements
- Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog
- Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project
- Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
- AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD
- Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
- Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication
- Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console
- AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls
- Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled
- Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas
- AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications
- Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
- New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog
- Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates
- Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys
- Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages
- Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets
- AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions
- Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection
- Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription
- Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing
- Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models
- AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration
- AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies
- VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog
- AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring
- Amazon Monitron launches iOS app
- Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing
- Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards
- Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities
- Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers
- Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically
- New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift