Q1 2023 Announcements Round Robin

For this episode, Arjen is joined by Jason and Matt to discuss the news from the first quarter of 2023. As that is a bit much, they decide to focus on the Melbourne region first and then pick some of their favourites round-robin style.

This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023.

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Melbourne
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions
AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions
AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions
AWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more Regions
Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) Regions
AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support
Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023
AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions
AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
AWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions

Sydney
Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions
Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions
AWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Discussed news items
New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience
New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances
Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback
Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support
Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client
Announcing Consolidated Control Findings and a Consolidated Controls View for AWS Security Hub
New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users
Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell
AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly
AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks
Code scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in preview
AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless
Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services
Amazon Corretto 20 is now generally available
AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates
AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams
AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs
Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging
Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default
AWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw Data

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