What's New in September 2020

Melbourne AWS User Group

A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake?

The News

Finally in ANZ

• Amazon Lex launches support for Australian English
• Urban Dictionary: Fair shake of the sauce bottle
• Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific regions
• Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions
• Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries - Mexico and New Zealand

Serverless

• AWS Step Functions increases payload size to 256KB
• API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports Lambda and IAM authorization options
• AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS X-Ray
• AWS Lambda adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
• Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS authentication
• mTLS auth with AWS API Gateway | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
• Mutual TLS auth with AWS API Gateway Part 2 - check certificate revocation | by Koustubha Kale | Contino Engineering
• Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry announces support for JSON Schema

Containers

• Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
• EKS Now Supports Creation and Management of Fargate Profiles Using AWS CloudFormation
• Amazon EKS now supports assigning EC2 security groups to Kubernetes pods
• Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics from Container environments
• AWS and Docker extend collaboration to launch new features in Docker Desktop
• Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI - Docker Blog
• Amazon ECS is now available in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones

EC2 & VPC

• New EC2 T4g Instances – Burstable Performance Powered by AWS Graviton2 – Try Them for Free | AWS News Blog
• Amazon EC2/Spot Fleet now support modifying instance types and weights on the run
• Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract
• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now supports AWS PrivateLink
• Amazon Lightsail now offers new OS blueprints
• Application Load Balancers now support AWS Outposts
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports sharing of an Application Load Balancer among Elastic Beanstalk environments
• Amazon CloudWatch Agent is now Open Source and included with Amazon Linux 2

Dev & Ops

• AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu
• AWS X-Ray launches Auto-Instrumentation Agent for Java
• AWS X-Ray launches anomaly detection-based actionable insights in preview
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces
• Systems Manager now supports on-demand patching with just two clicks
• Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports enhanced monitoring for Broken Link and GUI Workflow Blueprints
• Amazon CloudFront announces support for Brotli compression
• AWS Systems Manager Explorer now supports grouping and customization of operational data sources
• Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0
• Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15

Security

• AWS Single Sign-On adds account assignment APIs and AWS CloudFormation support to automate multi-account access management
• Fixing AWS SSO's CloudFormation | ig.nore.me
• GitHub - ArjenSchwarz/awstools: A little application to help with more complex AWS functions
• cloudformation-macros/SSOFixer at master · ArjenSchwarz/cloudformation-macros · GitHub
• Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs
• Amazon CloudFront announces real-time logs
• Amazon CloudFront announces support for TLSv1.3 for viewer connections
• Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards now supports sharing
• AWS Backup Will Automatically Copy Tags from Nested EBS Volumes to EC2 Recovery Points
• Enforce encryption for Amazon Elastic File System resources using AWS IAM
• Amazon Detective introduces IAM Role Session Analysis
• Data Lifecycle Manager now supports multiple schedules within in a single lifecycle policy
• AWS Backup supports application-consistent backups of Microsoft workloads on EC2
• Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview)

Storage & Databases

• Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift
• Amazon Redshift now supports 100K tables in a single cluster
• Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Native Backup/Restore on DB Instances with Read Replicas
• Amazon Aurora Increases Maximum Storage Size to 128TB
• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances
• Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles (LA)
• Now it's even easier to connect JetBrains IDEs to Amazon RDS or Redshift Databases
• Amazon EFS integrates with AWS Systems Manager to simplify management of Amazon EFS clients

AI & ML

• Amazon Textract supports customer S3 buckets

Other Cool Stuff

• AWS announces a 86%+ price reduction for AWS IoT Events
• Amazon WorkSpaces introduces Microsoft Office Professional bundle for Bring Your Own Windows License WorkSpaces
• Amazon WorkSpaces introduces support for cross-Region redirection
• Amazon Connect launches contact flow management APIs
• Amazon Connect launches APIs that list prompts within your instance
• Amazon Connect launches API to configure routing profiles programmatically
• AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry
• Introducing AWS Perspective
• Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Atlanta, New York City, and Washington DC
• Queuing purchases of Savings Plans
• Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing
• The D-Wave 2000Q (PDF)

The Nano Candidates

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers T3 Instances (Jean-Manuel)
• AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas (Guy)
• AWS IQ now provides short URLs for expert profiles (Arjen)

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