AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
150 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 19 – Nov 25, 2019
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Monday, Nov 25
CloudWatch Application Insights for .NET and SQL Server now supports Windows Performance Counters, SQL Server on Linux, and more
AWS Chatbot now supports running commands from Slack (beta)
Application Auto Scaling now supports Target Tracking for AppStream 2.0 fleets
AWS IoT Greengrass 1.10 provides support for Docker containers and management of data streams
Now Publish Log files from Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Amazon CloudWatch
AWS IoT Device Management introduces Secure Tunneling, a new secure way to troubleshoot IoT devices
Access resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud using Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
Amazon SES Announces Account-Level Suppression List
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Application Auto Scaling, and AWS Auto Scaling now support AWS PrivateLink
AWS Secrets Manager makes it easier to rotate secrets through CloudFormation, including secrets for Redshift clusters and DocumentDB databases
AWS CodeBuild Adds Support for Test Reporting
New partner integrations available for AWS Security Hub
Application Load Balancer now supports Least Outstanding Requests algorithm for load balancing requests
AWS Lambda Supports Failure-Handling Features for Kinesis and DynamoDB Event Sources
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports X1 and X1e instance types
Amazon EC2 Instance Connect is Now Available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Amazon CloudWatch Now Includes Contributor Insights - in Preview
Amazon EC2 X1e Instances are Now Available in the Canada (Central) AWS Region
Introducing AWS Cost Categories
Simplify application configuration with AWS AppConfig
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics - Now in Preview
AWS IoT Device Defender Adds Four New Checks to its Audit Capability
Amazon EC2 T instances now support Unlimited Mode at AWS account level
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
AWS SAM CLI simplifies deploying serverless applications with single-command deploy
8K Resolution Encoding Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds high availability support in additional AWS regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports differential restores and log restores
AWS Key Management Service supports asymmetric keys
AWS IoT Core adds the ability to deliver messages directly to your own web services via HTTP action
New Alexa Voice Service Integration for AWS IoT Core cost-effectively brings Alexa Voice to any type of connected device
AWS IoT Core makes it easier to transition from self-managed to fully-managed AWS IoT services with minimal impact to existing application architectures or IoT devices
Amazon Redshift introduces Automatic Table Sort, an automated alternative to Vacuum Sort
AWS Lambda Supports Parallelization Factor for Kinesis and DynamoDB Event Sources
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches AL2 Corretto Platforms (Beta)
AWS App Mesh controllers for Kubernetes are now available as Helm Charts
Grafana Labs and AWS add optimizations and new features to Amazon CloudWatch data source
Data Lifecycle Manager now supports time based retention policies
Amazon Translate Now Adds Support for Twenty-two More Languages and Variants - Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Dari, Estonian, Canadian French, Georgian, Hausa, Latvian, Pashto, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, and Tamil
AWS Lambda Now Supports Maximum Event Age and Maximum Retry Attempts for Asynchronous Invocations
Amazon Translate is Now Available in Six New Regions- US West (Northern California), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Now get additional details/metrics around all your algorithm runs with AutoML
Simplify permissions management by using employee attributes from your corporate directory for access control
AWS Glue now enables you to bring your own JDBC drivers to your Glue Spark ETL jobs
Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports SQL-level Metrics on Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility
You can now run fully managed Apache Flink applications with Apache Kafka
Amazon Chime Voice Connector now supports SIPREC
Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports SQL-level Metrics on Amazon RDS for Oracle
Amazon Comprehend launches real time custom classification
Introducing AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF
Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney and Hong Kong) regions
AWS X-Ray launches support for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetic Canaries
AWS Direct Connect enables Direct Connect gateway for AWS China regions
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is Now Generally Available in Java and C#
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code Adds New CDK Explorer in Preview
Amazon QuickSight launches themes, conditional formatting and more
Amazon Forecast can now support generating predictions in any quantile
AWS Service Catalog adds High Reliability Architectures to the Getting Started Library
Amazon Aurora Now Supports Additional Instance Sizes
AWS IoT Core now makes it easy to onboard large volumes of manufactured devices at scale
AWS IoT Device Tester v2.2.0 for AWS IoT Greengrass is now available
Amazon WorkSpaces Public APIs are now supported on AWS PrivateLink
Amazon EKS Increases Limits to 100 Clusters per Region
Amazon Polly launches Conversational Speaking Style voices
Inter-Region VPC Peering Now Supports IPv6 traffic
Amazon Connect Now Supports Inbound and Outbound Audio with Customer Voice Stream
Friday, Nov 22
AWS Glue now supports the FindMatches ML Transform on Apache Spark 2.4.3 and AWS Glue version 1.0
Amazon Route 53 Now Supports Overlapping Namespaces For Private Hosted Zones
Simplify cloud provisioning with AWS Service Catalog Connector for Jira Service Desk
Amazon Redshift Spectrum launches in five additional AWS regions
Amazon QuickSight adds API support for data, dashboard, SPICE, and permissions
AWS DataSync is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 makes it easier for customers to discover and compare EC2 instance types
Amazon Aurora MySQL 5.7 Expands List of Supported Features to Improve Performance and Manageability
Thursday, Nov 21
Amazon Kinesis Producer Library (KPL) now supports ListShards API for efficient scaling of producer applications
Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports EC2 z1d Instances
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now Supports Outbound Network Access
AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), US West (N. California), and Canada (Central) AWS regions
Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Speech-to-text in 7 Additional Languages
Amazon Lex Now Supports Sentiment Analysis
AWS CloudTrail announces CloudTrail Insights
Amazon Connect Launches Web & Mobile Chat for a True Omnichannel Contact Center Experience
AWS X-Ray offers improved trace analysis and identification of service disruption
AWS Tools for PowerShell is Now Generally Available with version 4.0
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) AWS Region
Tag-on Create and Tag-Based IAM for AWS Certificate Manager and Private Certificate Authority
Amazon EC2 G4 Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 2 additional regions
Amazon Redshift announces support for spatial data
New Quick Start deploys Citrix ADC VPX on the AWS Cloud
ECR events now published to EventBridge
AWS Migration Hub now available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region
AWS Marketplace Now Offers Syndicated Product Reviews
AWS announces Amazon Chime SDK for embedding real-time communications in applications
AWS AppSync adds server-side Caching and DynamoDB transactions support for GraphQL APIs
Amazon EKS now available in the Canada (Central) Region
Announcing Amazon CloudWatch ServiceLens
Amazon Transcribe is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
You now can enhance availability of your existing Amazon DynamoDB tables by adding global replicas
Amazon EC2 A1 Instances Are Now Available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
New Quick Start deploys HITRUST architecture on AWS
Wednesday, Nov 20
AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region
Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for encryption at rest and node-to-node encryption in AWS China (Beijing) Region, Operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD
Use IAM to share your AWS resources with groups of AWS accounts in AWS Organizations
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Instance Weighting
AWS DataSync adds the ability to schedule data transfers
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports Data Deduplication, reducing storage costs by 50-60% for general file shares
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports user storage quotas, enabling monitoring and control of user-level storage consumption
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables enforcement of in-transit encryption
AWS Ground Station is now available in Middle East (Bahrain) region
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports managing file shares via PowerShell
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions
Amazon S3 Replication Time Control for predictable replication time, backed by an SLA
AWS CodeCommit Enables Enforcing Approval Rule Workflows For Pull Requests
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server adds support for High Availability Microsoft SQL Server Deployments
New Quick Start deploys Windows Server Update Services on the AWS Cloud
Amazon Transcribe now Supports Alternative Transcriptions
Amazon Cognito now supports Sign in with Apple
AWS DataSync announces a 68% price reduction
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server reduces the minimum size for file systems from 300 GBs to 32 GBs
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Now Supports Maximum Instance Lifetime
AWS DataSync now available in 5 additional AWS Regions
AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for Tape and File Gateway
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) eliminates the need for pre-warming data into volumes created from snapshots
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports file systems that span multiple Availability Zones
AWS Cost Explorer monthly forecasts now include Support costs
Introducing AWS Config Conformance Packs
AWS Config launches support for third-party resources
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_SERVER and ALLOWED_LOGON_VERSION_CLIENT sqlnet.ora Parameters
AWS Storage Gateway adds HA on VMware and new performance monitoring metrics
New Quick Start deploys DataSunrise with Amazon Redshift on AWS
Tuesday, Nov 19
AWS Lambda Supports Amazon SQS FIFO (First-In-First-Out) as an Event Source
Copy Snapshot API now supports adding tags while copying snapshots
AWS Step Functions adds Amazon EMR service integration
Amazon QLDB is now available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Seoul, Sydney) regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports additional instance sizes
Introducing AWS Systems Manager Explorer
ECS container instances monitoring now available in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights
Application Load Balancer simplifies deployments with support for weighted target groups
3 New APN Partner Courses on Machine Learning, VMware & Containers
Amazon Lex is Now SOC Compliant
Now Available: Free Digital Training Series on AWS Snowball Edge
AWS Lambda now supports Environment Variables in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
CloudFormation Announces Drift Detection Support in StackSets
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports More Refined Access Control
Identify unused IAM roles easily and remove them confidently by using the last used timestamp
New AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow supports Budgets integration and FIPS endpoints
AWS CodeBuild Adds Support for ARM, GPU, and X-Large Compute Types
Announcing Updates to Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2019 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU)
Amazon CloudWatch Launches Usage Metrics and Service Quotas Integration
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