What's New in October 2020

In another slightly delayed episode Arjen, JM, and Guy talk about all the many things that were announced in October. But before that, they will first discuss exactly how badly Lex understands "a fair shake of the sauce bottle".

 

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The News

 

Finally in Sydney
Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the Australian English dialect
Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regions
AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Snapshot Export to S3 available in additional regions

Serverless
Introducing AWS Lambda Extensions – In preview | AWS Compute Blog
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (preview)
New – Use AWS PrivateLink to Access AWS Lambda Over Private AWS Network | AWS News Blog
Amazon EventBridge announces support for Dead Letter Queues
AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integration
Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default REST API endpoint

Containers
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18
Amazon EKS now supports the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
Amazon EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes service IP address range
Amazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer Preview
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker Platform
Fluent Bit supports Amazon S3 as a destination to route container logs
AWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate Authority
Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller
AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and more

EC2 & VPC
AWS Nitro Enclaves – Isolated EC2 Environments to Process Confidential Data | AWS News Blog
Announcing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves
New – Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC | AWS News Blog
AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations with Amazon EBS metrics
AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters
AWS Global Accelerator launches port overrides
AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for VPC private links
AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports health notifications

Dev & Ops
AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas
AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports prebuilt canary monitoring dashboard
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches Recorder to generate user flow scripts for canaries
AWS and Grafana Labs launch AWS X-Ray data source plugin
Now author AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using Visual Studio Code
AWS Systems Manager now supports free-text search of runbooks
AWS Systems Manager now allows filtering automation executions by applications or environments
Now use AWS Systems Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on your Linux instances
Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager now support multiple simultaneous connections
Now customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profiles
AWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customers
EC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accounts
Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
Porting Assistant for .NET is now open source
Amazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available

Security
AWS Config adds 15 new sample conformance pack templates and introduces simplified setup experience for conformance packs
AWS IAM Access Analyzer now supports archive rules for existing findings
AWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAF
AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports two subscription filters per log group
Amazon S3 Object Ownership is available to enable bucket owners to automatically assume ownership of objects uploaded to their buckets
Protect Your AWS Compute Optimizer Recommendation Data with customer master keys (CMKs) Stored in AWS Key Management Service
Manage access to AWS centrally for Ping Identity users with AWS Single Sign-On
Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds native SAML Authentication for Kibana
Amazon Inspector has expanded operating system support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Debian 10, and Windows Server 2019

Data Storage & Processing
New – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors | AWS News Blog
Amazon ElastiCache now supports M6g and R6g Graviton2-based instances
Easily restore an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from your MySQL 8.0 backup
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports concurrent major version upgrades of read replicas
Amazon Aurora enables dynamic resizing for database storage space
AWS Lake Formation now supports Active Directory and SAML providers for Amazon Athena
AWS Lake Formation now supports cross account database sharing
Now generally available – design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench
You now can manage access to Amazon Keyspaces by using temporary security credentials for the Python, Go, and Node.js Cassandra drivers
Amazon ElastiCache on Outposts is now available
Amazon EMR now supports placing your EMR master nodes in distinct racks to reduce risk of simultaneous failure
Amazon EMR integration with AWS Lake Formation is now generally available
Amazon EMR now provides up to 35% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances
AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs support schema detection and evolution
AWS Glue supports reading from self-managed Apache Kafka
AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Force Stop and a new Autoscaling status
Kinesis Client Library now enables multi-stream processing
Announcing cross-database queries for Amazon Redshift (preview)
Amazon Redshift announces support for Lambda UDFs and enables tokenization
New Amazon Neptune engine release now enforces a minimum version of TLS 1.2 and SSL client connections
AWS Database Migration Service now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a source

AI & ML
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now Creates Machine Learning Models up to 40% Faster with up to 200% Higher Accuracy
Now launch Amazon SageMaker Studio in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Amazon SageMaker Price Reductions – Up to 18% for ml.P3 and ml.P2 instances
Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support custom images
Amazon Rekognition adds support for six new content moderation categories
Amazon Rekognition now detects Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers, head covers, and hand covers on persons in images
Amazon Transcribe announces support for AWS PrivateLink for Batch APIs
Amazon Kendra now supports custom data sources
Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Server connector
Amazon Textract announces improvements to reduce average API processing times by up to 20%

Other Cool Stuff
AWS DeepRacer announces new Community Races updates
Amazon WorkSpaces introduces sharing images across accounts
AWS Batch now supports Custom Logging Configurations, Swap Space, and Shared Memory
Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the British English dialect
Amazon Connect chat now provides automation and personalization capabilities with whisper flows
CloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interface
CloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metrics
Announcing AWS Budgets price reduction
Announcing AWS Budgets Actions
Resource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS Outposts
Announcing Amazon CloudFront Origin Shield
Announcing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry in Preview
Introducing Amazon SNS FIFO – First-In-First-Out Pub/Sub Messaging | AWS News Blog
Amazon SNS now supports selecting the origination number when sending SMS messages
Amazon SES now offers list and subscription management capabilities

Nano candidates
Amazon WorkDocs now supports Dark Mode on iOS
Amazon Corretto 8u272, 11.0.9, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available
AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Chef Automate

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