What’s New in January 2022

In this month's episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that's mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that's either good or bad depending on how you interpret it.

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News
Finally in Sydney
Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regions
Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in 10 additional regions
AWS Panorama is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)
AWS Resilience Hub expands to 13 additional AWS Regions
AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Australia

Serverless
AWS Lambda now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints for inbound connections
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6) - Old announcement mentioned in show
Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI support for local testing of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
AWS Lambda now supports ES Modules and Top-Level Await for Node.js 14
AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window for Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources

Containers
Amazon EKS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking | AWS News Blog
EBS CSI driver now available in EKS add-ons in preview
Amazon ECS launches new simplified console experience for creating ECS clusters and task definitions
ACM Private CA Kubernetes cert-manager plugin is production ready
Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for AWS Graviton-based EC2 instances
Amazon ECR adds the ability to monitor repository pull statistics
Amazon ECS now supports Amazon ECS Exec and Amazon Linux 2 for on-premises container workloads

EC2 & VPC
Introducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances
New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing | AWS News Blog
New – Amazon EC2 X2iezn Instances Powered by the Fastest Intel Xeon Scalable CPU for Memory-Intensive Workloads
Instance Tags now available on the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now support Cluster Placement Groups
AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to optimize by leveraging multiple EC2 instance architectures
AWS Announces New Launch Speed Optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication with EC2 Instance Connect
Metrics now available for AWS PrivateLink

Dev & Ops
Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates
Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces AWS Organizations support for cross account Subscriptions
AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs adds support for ECS-Exec for troubleshooting ECS containers
AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooks

Security
AWS Secrets Manager now automatically enables SSL connections when rotating database secrets
AWS announces phone number enrichments for Amazon Fraud Detector Models
Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake
AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Shield Advanced automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
Amazon SNS now supports Attribute-based access controls (ABAC)
Amazon GuardDuty now detects EC2 instance credentials used from another AWS account
Amazon GuardDuty Enhances Detection of EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration | AWS News Blog
Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
AWS Security Hub integrates with AWS Health
AWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security Hub
AWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session duration

Data Storage & Processing
Databases
AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
Now DynamoDB can return the throughput capacity consumed by PartiQL API calls to help you optimize your queries and throughput costs
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $mergeObjects and $reduce
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds additional Geospatial query capabilities
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers a free trial
Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports query execution plan capture for RDS for Oracle

Glue
Introducing Autoscaling in AWS Glue jobs (Preview)
Introducing AWS Glue Interactive Sessions and Job Notebooks (Preview)
Announcing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) detection and remediation in AWS Glue (Preview)

EMR
Introducing real-time collaborative notebooks with EMR Studio
Introducing SQL Explorer in EMR Studio
Amazon EMR now supports Apache Iceberg, a highly performant, concurrent, ACID-compliant table format for data lakes
Amazon EMR on EKS adds error message details in DescribeJobRun API response to simplify debugging
Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for customized container images for interactive jobs run using managed endpoints
Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled

OpenSearch
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports OpenSearch version 1.1
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports anomaly detection for historical data
Fine grained access control now supported on existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains

Redshift
Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rules

Other
New – Replication for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Amazon ElastiCache adds support for streaming and storing Redis engine logs
AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
Amazon S3 File Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch

AI & ML
SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now offers native EMR integration for large scale data processing
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports concurrency control
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds LightGBM and CatBoost Models for Tabular Data
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store connector for Apache Spark for easy batch data ingestion
Announcing SageMaker Training support for ml.g5 instances

Other
Amazon Kendra launches support for query language
Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resources
Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for Video
AWS Panorama Appliances now available for purchase on Amazon.com and Amazon Business
Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images

Other Cool Stuff
Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region | AWS News Blog
Announcing the new Console Home in AWS Management Console
A New AWS Console Home Experience | AWS News Blog
Amazon Nimble Studio launches the ability to validate launch profile configurations via the Nimble Studio console
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automation
Amazon Interactive Video Service adds thumbnail configuration
Announcing matrix routing for Amazon Location Service
Amazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use cases

IoT
AWS IoT Device Management launches Automated Retry capability for Jobs to improve success rates of large scale deployments
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN Launches Two New Features to Manage and Monitor Communications Between Device and Cloud
AWS IoT SiteWise Edge supports new data storage and upload prioritization strategies for intermittent cloud connectivity

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