What's New in November 2020

Melbourne AWS User Group

Because re:Invent is just in a couple of days, Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take an earlier than usual look at the massive number of announcements in November. And to think, this episode was recorded on 20 November so everything announced after that will be discussed in the re:Invent episode.

What's new Finally in Sydney

• Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Sydney) AWS region
• IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions world wide
• Meet the newest AWS Heroes including the first DevTools Heroes! | AWS News Blog

Serverless

• Amazon EventBridge introduces support for Event Replay
• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler simplifies profiling for AWS Lambda functions
• AWS Lambda now makes it easier to send logs to custom destinations
• AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ as an event source
• AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon API Gateway service integration
• AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon EKS service integration

Containers

• Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run your Containers in the Cloud | AWS News Blog
• Amazon ECS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in awsvpc networking mode
• Amazon ECS extensions for AWS CDK is now generally available
• The AWS CDK EKS Construct Library is Now Available as a Developer Preview and Adds Support for cdk8s
• AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS launches features focused on configuration and metrics
• AWS App Mesh introduces circuit breaker capabilities
• Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.2.0
• Amazon VPC CNI plugin version 1.7 now default for Amazon EKS clusters

EC2 & VPC

• AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC | AWS News Blog
• Deployment models for AWS Network Firewall | Networking & Content Delivery
• Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer – Easy Deployment, Scalability, and High Availability for Partner Appliances | AWS News Blog
• Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6
• AWS Client VPN now supports Client Connect Handler
• AWS Client VPN announces self service portal to download VPN profiles and desktop applications
• Introducing EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation for EC2 Spot Instances
• Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now supports AWS Wavelength Zones
• Pause and Resume Workloads on T3 and T3a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation
• Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Braket

Dev & Ops

• AWS CloudFormation change sets now support nested stacks
• AWS Service Catalog now supports StackSet instance operations
• AWS X-Ray now supports trace context propagation for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Environment Variables
• AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch for easier diagnosis and remediation of alarms
• AWS CodePipeline Source Action for AWS CodeCommit Supports git clone
• Now customize the idle session timeout value and stream session logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for Session Manager

Security

• Encrypt your Amazon DynamoDB global tables by using your own encryption keys
• AWS KMS - based Encryption is Now Available in Amazon SageMaker Studio
• Announcing protection groups for AWS Shield Advanced
• AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized management of AWS Network Firewall

Data Storage & Processing

• New – Export Amazon DynamoDB Table Data to Your Data Lake in Amazon S3, No Code Writing Required | AWS News Blog
• Introducing Amazon S3 Storage Lens – Organization-wide Visibility Into Object Storage | AWS News Blog
• Amazon MQ Update – New RabbitMQ Message Broker Service | AWS News Blog
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 4.0 and transactions
• Amazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2
• Amazon Athena adds support for running SQL queries across relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources.
• Announcing AWS Glue DataBrew – A Visual Data Preparation Tool That Helps You Clean and Normalize Data Faster | AWS News Blog
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Database Mail
• Amazon RDS Data API supports tag-based authorization
• Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Cross-Custom-Availability-Zone Read Replicas
• Amazon Aurora Global Database Expands Manageability Capabilities
• AWS Launch Wizard now supports single-instance deployments of SQL Server on Windows and Linux
• Amazon Redshift announces Open Source JDBC and Python drivers
• Amazon Redshift announces support for TIME and TIMETZ data types
• Amazon Neptune now supports Event notifications
• Amazon Neptune now supports custom endpoints to access your workload
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports defining a custom name for your domain endpoint
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds support for hot reload of dictionary files

Storage Day

• Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2020 | AWS News Blog
• Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Now Supports Access to File Systems Using Alternate DNS Names
• AWS Storage Gateway adds schedule-based network bandwidth throttling for Tape and Volume Gateway
• Amazon S3 Replication adds support for metrics and notifications
• Amazon S3 Replication adds support for replicating delete markers
• AWS Transfer Family now supports shared services VPC environments
• Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering adds Archive Access Tiers — further optimizes storage costs
• AWS Backup extends centralized backup management support to Amazon FSx
• AWS Snowball Edge now supports importing virtual machine images to your deployed Snow devices
• AWS Storage Gateway simplifies in-cloud processing by adding file-level upload notifications for File Gateway
• AWS Storage Gateway enhances security by introducing access-based enumeration for File Gateway
• Amazon ECS now supports the use of Amazon FSx for persistent, shared storage for Windows containers
• AMI Lifecycle Management now available with Data Lifecycle Manager
• AWS Snowball Edge now supports Windows operating systems
• AWS Storage Gateway increases local storage cache by 4x for Tape and Volume Gateway
• AWS announces 40% price reduction for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Cold HDD (sc1) volumes
• Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports storage quotas

AI & ML

• New – GPU-Equipped EC2 P4 Instances for Machine Learning & HPC | AWS News Blog
• EFA Now Supports NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA
• Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Cloud connector
• Amazon Kendra adds user tokens for secure search
• AWS DeepComposer launches new learning capsule on sequence modeling and Transformers
• AWS DeepComposer adds new Transformers algorithm that allows developers to extend an input melody
• Announcing AWS DeepComposer’s next Chartbusters challenge, Keep Calm and Model On
• Amazon Polly launches a British English Newscaster speaking Style
• Amazon Polly launches a new Australian English neural text-to-speech voice
• Amazon Lex adds language support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French
• Apply your business rules to Amazon Personalize recommendations on the fly
• Amazon Textract supports handwriting and five new languages
• Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances

Other Cool Stuff

• In the Works – AWS Region in Hyderabad, India | AWS News Blog
• In the Works – New AWS Region in Zurich, Switzerland | AWS News Blog
• AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account backup feature
• Amazon Chime SDK now supports public switched telephone network (PSTN) audio
• Savings Plans Alerts now available in AWS Cost Management
• Introducing new visualization features in AWS IoT SiteWise: Status Charts, Scatter Plot and Trend lines
• Announcing new features for AWS IoT SiteWise
• Amazon CloudWatch launches Metrics Explorer
• Amazon Connect launches API to configure user hierarchies programmatically
• Automated ABR (Adaptive Bit Rate) Configuration now available in AWS Elemental MediaConvert
• Amazon QuickSight launches new Chart Types, Table Improvements and more
• AWS IoT Device Management enhances Secure Tunneling with new multiplexing capability, supporting multiple connections to a single device over a secure tunnel

The Nanos

• Amazon WorkDocs adds support for managing the color theme in-app on iOS
• AWS IQ launches new functionality to support firms
• Amazon Connect has just reduced its 44th telephony rate this year

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