What‘s New in June 2021

Melbourne AWS User Group

The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual.

News Finally in Sydney

• AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions
• Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions

Serverless

• Amazon API Gateway now supports synchronous invocations of Express Workflows using REST APIs
• AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles
• Announcing Workflow Studio, a new low-code visual workflow designer for AWS Step Functions
• Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems
• AWS SAM launches machine learning inference templates for AWS Lambda
• AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka

Containers

• Amazon EKS pods running on AWS Fargate now support custom security groups
• AWS App Mesh introduces enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities
• Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements
• Customize and Package Dependencies With Your Apache Spark Applications on Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS | AWS News Blog

EC2 & VPC

• AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications
• Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIs
• Amazon EC2 now allows you to create crash-consistent AMIs from instances with multiple EBS volumes without rebooting instances
• AWS Backup now supports crash-consistent backups of Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance
• Announcing per second billing for EC2 Windows Server and SQL Server Instances
• AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds
• Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances - New features, improved performance and lower prices

Dev & Ops

• AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source
• AWS announces the general availability of AWS Proton
• Introducing a Public Registry for AWS CloudFormation | AWS News Blog
• AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements
• Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications
• Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Java Detectors and CI/CD Integration with GitHub Actions | AWS News Blog
• AWS Systems Manager now supports free text search for a node in the Session Manager console

Security

• Amazon Cognito now supports SMS Sandbox from Amazon SNS
• AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
• AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions
• AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts
• KMS Multi-Region Keys
• AWS WAF adds 15 new text transformations
• IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring

Data Storage & Processing

• Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables
• Announcing Global Clusters for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
• Identify and Copy existing objects to use S3 Bucket Keys, reducing the costs of Server-Side Encryption with AWS Key Management Service (SSE-KMS)
• AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings
• Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune
• Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster
• AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts
• File Access Auditing Is Now Available for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server | AWS News Blog
• Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions
• Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports fast database cloning
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances
• Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets
• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster

AI & ML

• Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models
• Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability
• Amazon Translate is Now Integrated with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge
• Amazon Lex announces support for multi-valued slots
• Connect to your Amazon CloudWatch data to detect anomalies and diagnose their root causes using Amazon Lookout for Metrics
• Amazon Translate now supports XML Localization Interchange File Format - XLIFF documents
• Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs

Other Cool Stuff

• Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services
• Amazon Location Service Is Now Generally Available with New Routing and Satellite Imagery Capabilities | AWS News Blog
• New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
• Announcing support for custom partitioning in AWS IoT Analytics Data Stores
• AWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability Zone
• AWS Client VPN launches desktop client for Linux
• Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically
• In the Works – AWS Region in Tel Aviv, Israel | AWS News Blog
• New – AWS BugBust: It’s Game Over for Bugs | AWS News Blog

The Nanos

The month of June...

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