What's New in July 2020

July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all.

The News
Finally in Sydney
AWS IoT Analytics is now available in the Sydney AWS Region
AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
AWS Secrets Manager has been IRAP assessed and accepted for PROTECTED level

Serverless
Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Announcing AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now generally available for production use
Amplify CLI adds support for Lambda layers to easily share code  assets across Lambda functions
Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection

Containers
AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications | AWS News Blog
Amazon ECS announces AWS Copilot, a new CLI to deploy and operate containers in AWS
Docker and AWS collaborate to help deploy applications to Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17
AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways
Introducing Ingress support in AWS App Mesh | Containers (detailed blogpost)
Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available
Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas
Fluent bit container logs to Elastcsearch
ECR now supports encryption of images using AWS KMS keys

EC2 & VPC
Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances
AWS Transit Gateway now supports more granular CloudWatch Metrics for improved network monitoring
EC2 Image Builder can now produce and distribute encrypted AMIs
EC2 Image Builder can now stream logs to CloudWatch
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
AWS Global Accelerator launches One-Click Acceleration for Application Load Balancers
Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create
New – Amazon EC2 Instances based on AWS Graviton2 with local NVMe-based SSD storage | AWS News Blog
Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel  WHM instance blueprint
AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration

Dev & Ops
Find Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Announcing the Porting Assistant for .NET | AWS News Blog
AWS CodeDeploy now enables automated installation and scheduled updates of the CodeDeploy Agent
Announcing CDK Pipelines Preview, continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications
CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications | AWS Developer Blog (detailed blogpost)
CDK for Terraform: Enabling Python & TypeScript Support
AWS CodeBuild now supports accessing Build Environments with AWS Session Manager
AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting
AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project
Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code

Security
Amazon Fraud Detector is now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Easily manage your content policies for AI services with AWS Organizations
AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups
AWS WAF Security Automations now supports WAFv2 API
AWS Config Launches 28 Additional Managed rules  
AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to attach resource-based policies to secrets from the AWS Secrets Manager console and uses Zelkova to validate these policies
Identify, arrange, and manage secrets easily using enhanced search in AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections
Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility
Now gain longer access to your AWS resources when switching roles in the AWS Management Console
Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization
AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls
AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs

Storage & Databases
Amazon Elastic File System increases file system minimum throughput
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports T3 medium instances
AWS Storage Gateway simplifies cache management for File Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway increases local cache storage by 4x for File Gateway
Amazon RDS Application Programming Interface supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Keyspaces now enables you to back up your table data continuously by using point-in-time-recovery (PITR)
Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs | AWS News Blog
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for cross-region snapshot copy
Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System
New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots | AWS News Blog
Amazon Elastic File System increases per-client throughput by 100%
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy ranking
AWS DataSync adds support for on-premises object storage | AWS News Blog
HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon RDS for SQL Server lowers the cost for High Availability DB Instances
AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to New Relic, Datadog, HTTP endpoints, and MongoDB Cloud

AI & ML
AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase
Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition
Amazon Personalize adds improved handling of missing metadata
Amazon EMR now supports encrypting log files using Customer-managed CMKs in AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 10X more items
Amazon EMR now supports Managed Scaling – automatically resizing clusters to lower cost
New – Label Videos with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth | AWS News Blog
Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Kendra
AWS RoboMaker releases rosbag upload cloud extension for Robot Operating System (ROS) 
Amazon Comprehend launches real time Custom Entity Recognition
Amazon Forecast now supports resource tagging
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers
Amazon Translate now supports Office documents | AWS News Blog

Other cool stuff
New – Create Amazon RDS DB Instances on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog
Announcing the New AWS Community Builders Program! | AWS News Blog
AWS IoT SiteWise – Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
Amazon Interactive Video Service – Add Live Video to Your Apps and Websites | AWS News Blog
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect is now generally available
Recording of the Connect/Contact Lens talk by Rian Brooks-Kane at the User Group (starts around 50 minutes)
AWS IoT Core now supports multiple shadows for a single IoT device
Amazon Connect allows you to continue engaging with your customer after an agent hangs-up
Amazon Chime SDK supports audio and video calling from mobile browsers
AWS Marketplace now offers integrated third-party software solutions for AWS Control Tower
Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool
Amazon Connect adds call recording APIs
Introducing AWS Purchase Order Management (Preview)

 

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