What's New in May 2021

Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown.

News
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Serverless
Lambda
Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3

EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region
AWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridge

Other
AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps
Introducing CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale | AWS News Blog
Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows

Containers
EKS
Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20
Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available
Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs
Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints
EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy

Other
New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News Blog
Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks
AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring

EC2 & VPC
Four new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options
EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template
Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy
AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations
AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations
Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services

Dev & Ops
Dev
AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview
Porting Assistant for .NET now available as a Visual Studio IDE extension
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports customer-managed customer master keys
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for scheduling
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless Applications
AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints

Ops
Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter)
Amazon DevOps Guru now generally available with additional capabilities
Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events
AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available
Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild

Security
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources
AWS Audit Manager now offers three new frameworks - NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected framework
AWS WAF adds support for log filtering
Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs
Introducing IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK
AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting
AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets

Data Storage & Processing
Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing
Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers AWS Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances
AWS Data Provider for SAP Version 4.0 now available
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Managed Disaster Recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups
New – Create Microsoft SQL Server Instances of Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts | AWS News Blog
AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC)
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview
Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces a new lower cost storage tier
AWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and Authentication
Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
AWS Transfer Family now supports Microsoft Active Directory
Amazon RDS for Oracle supports multitenant container database
Amazon Aurora MySQL Improves Availability of Read Replicas
Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0
AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML
Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression
AWS Launch Wizard adds support for SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster Instances deployed on Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

AI & ML
Prepare data for machine learning faster and easier on Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler with support for more data sources and distributed jobs
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports up to 10x faster tuning and enables exploring up to 20X more models
Support for Kantar watermarking is now available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model
Amazon SageMaker now offers new flexibility in configuring the model building pipelines
Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines is now integrated with Amazon SageMaker Experiments
Amazon Kendra releases Query Suggestions
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic cross validation to improve model quality on smaller datasets by up to 35%

Other Cool Stuff
New Amazon FinSpace Simplifies Data Management and Analytics for Financial Services | AWS News Blog
New Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
AWS Organizations launches new console experience
Migration Evaluator announces a faster way to project AWS cloud costs with Quick Insights
AWS Local Zones Are Now Open in Boston, Miami, and Houston | AWS News Blog
Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity
How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Service for Lift-and-Shift Migrations | AWS News Blog
AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support
Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
AWS Application Cost Profiler
AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones
Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android
Fleet Hub for AWS IoT Device Management, a new, easy way to monitor & interact with IoT device fleets, is now generally available
In the Works – AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) | AWS News Blog
Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues
Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces Dimension support for Metric Filters
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Resource Health

The Nanos
Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers(Arjen)
Amazon WorkDocs adds filtering to the activity feed for both iOS and Android (Guy)

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