What’s New in September 2021
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 18
Episode description
After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn't great as well.
As a headsup, our October and November episodes will be released over the next 2 weeks.
News Finally in ANZ- Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions
- Ability to customize reverse DNS for Elastic IP addresses now available in additional regions for Virtual Private Cloud customers
- Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in 17 additional public regions
- In the Works – AWS Region in New Zealand | AWS News Blog
- AWS Lambda Functions Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processor – Run Your Functions on Arm and Get Up to 34% Better Price Performance | AWS News Blog
- Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry
- AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Is Now Generally Available with Alert Manager and Ruler | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EKS Anywhere – Now Generally Available to Create and Manage Kubernetes Clusters on Premises | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EKS Connector is now in public preview
- AWS RoboMaker now supports container images in simulation
- Amazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts
- Amazon ECR Public adds the ability to launch containers directly to AWS App Runner
- Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together
- New – Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 T3 instances are now supported on EC2 Dedicated Hosts in multiple AWS Regions
- AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances
- AWS Marketplace launches aliases for all single AMI products
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, CentOS 8, and Fedora 34
- AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2
- IPv6 endpoints are now available for the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service, Amazon Time Sync Service, and Amazon VPC DNS Server
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list
- Amazon VPC Routing Enhancements Allow You to Inspect Traffic Between Subnets In a VPC | AWS News Blog
- Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC
- Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth
- Application Load Balancer-type Target Group for Network Load Balancer | Networking & Content Delivery
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection
- Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- Amazon Managed Grafana Is Now Generally Available with Many New Features | AWS News Blog
- EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds new inconsistency detectors
- AWS CDK releases v1.117.0 - v1.120.0 with improved support for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cognito, and more
- AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer enhances security findings generated by GitHub Action by adding severity fields and CWE tags
- Amazon Corretto 17 is now generally available
- AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web apps on Microsoft Edge browser
- New for AWS CloudFormation – Quickly Retry Stack Operations from the Point of Failure | AWS News Blog
- AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities
- AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now supports third-party calendar imports, giving you a more holistic view of events
- AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a catalog of operational offerings with Operations on Demand
- Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights and AWS Systems Manager Application Manager combine to offer an integrated application management experience
- Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard
- New for AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry – Tracing Support is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)
- ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
- IAM Access Analyzer helps you generate fine-grained policies that specify the required actions for more than 50 services
- Amazon Macie adds support for selecting managed data identifiers
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF log filtering
- AWS WAF now offers in-line regular expressions
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS WAF rate-based rules
- Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration
- Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details
- Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Service and Supports OpenSearch 1.0 | AWS News Blog
- OpenSearch Dashboards Notebooks, a new visual reporting feature, now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)
- Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Data Streams with OpenSearch 1.0 to simplify management of time-series data
- Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports Index Transforms
- Migrating to OpenSearch with CloudFormation – One Cloud Please
- Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g instances
- Amazon Aurora now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g instances
- Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeout
- Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
- Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
- Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
- AQUA is now available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes
- New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune
- Announcing general availability of Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying
- Amazon Redshift announces the next generation of Amazon Redshift Query Editor
- New – Amazon EFS Intelligent-Tiering Optimizes Costs for Workloads with Changing Access Patterns | AWS News Blog
- How to Accelerate Performance and Availability of Multi-region Applications with Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points | AWS News Blog
- AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A — shufflesharding.com
- Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering – Improved Cost Optimizations for Short-Lived and Small Objects | AWS News Blog
- New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports creating 64 TB EBS Snapshots
- Introducing Amazon MSK Connect – Stream Data to and from Your Apache Kafka Clusters Using Managed Connectors | AWS News Blog
- Amazon MSK now supports running multiple authentication modes and updates to TLS encryption settings
- Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On
- Now auto-terminate idle EMR clusters to lower cost
- Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines
- Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks
- Amazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker Studio
- Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problems
- Extract custom entities from documents in their native format with Amazon Comprehend
- Amazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancements
- Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice
- Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards
- Amazon CloudWatch request metrics for Amazon S3 Access Points now available
- Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for Microsoft SQL Server FCI and FSx storage
- Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device
- Amazon Pinpoint now supports encrypted SNS topics for inbound SMS
- Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits
- AWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon SES now supports emails with a message size of up to 40MB
- AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity
- AWS Ground Station announces Licensing Accelerator
- New – Amazon Genomics CLI Is Now Open Source and Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Connect Wisdom is now generally available
- Contact Lens for Amazon Connect adds support for 8 languages
- Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface
- Amazon Connect Customer Profiles adds product purchase history to personalize customer interactions
- Amazon Connect Voice ID is now generally available
- Amazon Connect now offers, in Public Preview, high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails
- AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements
- AWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-Click
- AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification states