What’s new in October 2021

A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.

News
Finally in Sydney
Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions

Serverless
Lambda
AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account
AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source

Step Functions
Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog
AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows

Amplify
Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage

Other
Accelerating serverless development with AWS SAM Accelerate | AWS Compute Blog

Containers
Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket
AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers
Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads
AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets
AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available

EC2 & VPC
New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units
Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags
Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs
AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files
Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog
Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases

Dev & Ops
CLI
AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog
Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts

CodeGuru
Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer
Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features

IaC
AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control
AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager

Other
NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates
Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions
AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions

Security
Firewalls
AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs
AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop

Backups
AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports
AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock

Other
AWS Security Hub adds support for cross-Region aggregation of findings to simplify how you evaluate and improve your AWS security posture
Amazon SES now supports 2048-bit DKIM keys
AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator for Managed entitlements

Data Storage & Processing
Goodbye Microsoft SQL Server, Hello Babelfish | AWS News Blog
Announcing availability of the Babelfish for PostgreSQL open source project
Announcing Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle
AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD
Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL Version 8.0
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now comes with an improved management console
AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls
Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled
Amazon Neptune now supports Auto Scaling for Read Replicas
AWS Glue Crawlers support Amazon S3 event notifications
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
New – AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift | AWS News Blog

AI & ML
SageMaker
Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker Projects now supports Image Building CI/CD templates
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon Athena Workgroups, feature correlation, and customer managed keys

Other
Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages
Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets
AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions
Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection
Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription
Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing
Announcing Amazon EC2 DL1 instances for cost efficient training of deep learning models

Other Cool Stuff
AWS IoT Core now makes it optional for customers to send the entire trust chain when provisioning devices using Just-in-Time Provisioning and Just-in-Time Registration
AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Brings VMware SDDC as a Fully Managed Service on Premises | AWS News Blog
AWS Outposts adds new CloudWatch dimension for capacity monitoring
Amazon Monitron launches iOS app
Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing
Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards
Amazon WorkMail adds Mobile Device Access Override API and MDM integration capabilities
Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers
Computer Vision at the Edge with AWS Panorama | AWS News Blog
Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically
New region availability and Graviton2 support now available for Amazon GameLift

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