What's New in September 2020
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 7
Episode description
A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake?
The NewsFinally in ANZ
- Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English
- Urban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottle
- Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific regions
- Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions
- Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries - Mexico and New Zealand
- AWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KB
- API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization options
- AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray
- AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
- Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication
- mTLS auth with AWS API Gateway | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
- Mutual TLS auth with AWS API Gateway Part 2 - check certificate revocation | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
- Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema
- Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
- EKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods
- Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments
- AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop
- Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI - Docker Blog
- Amazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
- New EC2 T4g Instances – Burstable Performance Powered by AWS Graviton2 – Try Them for Free | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the run
- Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLink
- Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints
- Application Load Balancers now support AWS Outposts
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environments
- Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2
- AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu
- AWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for Java
- AWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in preview
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces
- Systems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicks
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports enhanced monitoring for Broken Link and GUI Workflow Blueprints
- Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression
- AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources
- Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0
- Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15
- AWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access management
- Fixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation | ig.nore.me
- GitHub - ArjenSchwarz/awstools: A little application to help with more complex AWS functions
- cloudformation-macros/SSOFixer at master · ArjenSchwarz/cloudformation-macros · GitHub
- Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs
- Amazon CloudFront announces real-time logs
- Amazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connections
- Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing
- AWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery Points
- Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM
- Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis
- Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy
- AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2
- Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview)
- Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
- Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances
- Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles (LA)
- Now it's even easier to connect JetBrains IDEs to Amazon RDS or Redshift Databases
- Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients
- AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events
- Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Microsoft Office Professional bundle for Bring Your Own Windows License WorkSpaces
- Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection
- Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs
- Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance
- Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically
- AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry
- Introducing AWS Perspective
- Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC
- Queuing purchases of Savings Plans
- Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing
- The D-Wave 2000Q (PDF)
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances (Jean-Manuel)
- AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas (Guy)
- AWS IQ now provides short URLs for expert profiles (Arjen)
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