What’s New in September 2021

Melbourne AWS User Group

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

Serverless

• 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

Containers

• 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

EC2 & VPC Instances

• 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

VPC

• 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

Other

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection
• Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations

Dev & Ops Dev

• 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

Ops

• 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

ADOT

• 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)

Security

• 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

WAF

• 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

Detective

• Amazon Detective offers Splunk integration
• Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details

Data Storage & Processing Opensearch

• 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

Databases

• 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

Storage

• 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

MSK

• 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

Other

• 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

AI & ML SageMaker

• 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

Other

• 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

Other Cool Stuff

• 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

Connect

• 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

IoT

• 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

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