In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete perform a tech round up from May through to June of 2020.

There is now an ability to provide AWS Direct Connect testing. You can now use the Resiliency Toolkit to test the resiliency of the AWS Direct Connect connections. The failover testing feature enables customers to test resiliency by disabling one or more Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface, or AWS Direct Connect API.

AWS Shield Advanced now allows proactive engagement from the DDoS Response Team (DRT) when a DDoS event is detected. When you turn on proactive engagement, the DRT will directly contact you if an Amazon Route 53 health check associated with your protected resource becomes unhealthy during an event that's detected by Shield Advanced.

Amazon Redshift now delivers better cold query performance by significantly improving compilation times.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database Supports Managed Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

Tighten Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of Amazon S3 actions.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version upgrades.

We pivot to share the AWS Transfer family update, you can now use the source IP as an additional factor of authentication.

A raft of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) updates including the availability of the Graviton 2 based instances.

Finally, we talk about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems.

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Solutions Architect, ANZ, AWS
Peter Stanski - Head of Solution Architecture, AWS

Resources:
AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/aws-direct-connect-enables-failover-testing/
AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/aws-shield-advanced-now-supports-proactive-event-response/
Amazon Redshift now delivers better cold query performance by significantly improving compilation times - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/amazon-redshift-now-delivers-better-cold-query-performance/
Now Query for AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/query-for-aws-availability-zones-local-zones-using-aws-systems-manager-parameter-store/
Tighten S3 permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of S3 actions - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/tighten-s3-permissions-iam-users-roles-access-history-s3-actions/
Amazon MSK now supports Apache Kafka version upgrades - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/05/amazon-msk-supports-apache-kafka-version-upgrades/
Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/announcing-general-availability-amazon-ec2-g4dn-bare-metal-instances/
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems - https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/amazon-fsx-for-windows-file-server-now-enables-you-to-grow-storage-scale-performance-on-file-system/

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