What‘s New in July and August 2021
Update: 2021-10-03
Description
July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.
News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon ml.Inf1 instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker in 4 additional AWS Regions
- Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion
- AWS Directory Service now supports smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces in 5 additional AWS Regions
Serverless
Lambda
- AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.9
- AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as an event source
Amplify
- AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities
- Complete guide to full-stack CI/CD workflows with AWS Amplify | Front-End Web & Mobile
- AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions
- AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore
- AWS Amplify now supports Sign in with Apple
- Announcing Amplify Geo (Developer Preview) for AWS Amplify
Other
- Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA
- Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview
- AWS AppSync now supports custom authorization with AWS Lambda for GraphQL APIs
Containers
- Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.21
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes 1.21 | Containers
- Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades
- Amazon EKS now supports Multus
- Amazon ECS supports additional configurations for scheduled and event-driven tasks
- AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries
- AWS App Mesh Constructs for AWS CDK are now generally available
- AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces integration with Kubernetes
- Amazon VPC CNI plugin increases pods per node limits
EC2 & VPC
Instances
- Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes
- New – Amazon EC2 M6i Instances Powered by the Latest-Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for C5d, M5d, and R5d Instances
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances
- Assigning prefixes to Amazon EC2 network interfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events
Auto Scaling
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you control which instances to terminate on scale-in
Other
- Amazon EC2 adds Resource Identifiers and Tags for VPC Security Group Rules
- Amazon CloudFront announces new APIs to locate and move alternate domain names (CNAMEs)
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Capacity Rebalancing for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
- AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink
- AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints
- AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints
Dev & Ops
Dev Tooling
- EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images
- AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles
- Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds recommendation support for Python applications
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces new automated onboarding proce
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