What's New in April 2021
Update: 2021-06-28
Description
Setting a new record for delay in editing, you can finally listen to Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from April 2021. This was recorded nearly two months before it was released.
News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon Transcribe Custom Language Models now support Australian English, British English, Hindi and US Spanish
- Multi-Attach for Provisioned IOPS io2 Now Available in Thirteen Additional AWS Regions
- AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in additional AWS Regions
- AWS CloudShell is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
Serverless
API Gateway
Lambda
- AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
- Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights Now Supports AWS Lambda Container Images (General Availability)
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda
- AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 14.x
Step Functions
EventBridge
- Amazon EventBridge introduces support for cross-Region event bus targets
- AWS Chatbot now expands coverage of AWS Services monitored through Amazon EventBridge
Amplify
- Data management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UI
- Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM)
- AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deployment
Containers
- eksctl now supports creating node groups using resource specifications and dry run mode
- AWS Secrets Manager Delivers Provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver
EC2 & VPC
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving money
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs announces out-of-the-box integration with Amazon Athena
- MacSec Encryption for some Direct Connect (apologies, linking to this prevents the podcast from getting published :shrug:)
- New AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
- AWS Batch now supports EFS volumes at the job level
- AWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS Backups
- Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions worldwide
- Amazon EC2 enables replacing root volumes for quick restoration and troubleshooting
- Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High availability for Amazon EC2
- AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports Windows operating system
Dev & Ops
Dev
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Updates: New Predictable Pricing Model Up To 90% Lower and Python Support Moves to GA | AWS News Blog
- Now available credential profile support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
- AWS CodeDeploy improves support for EC2 deployments with Auto Scaling Groups
- AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CDK applications - public preview
- Better together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK | AWS Compute Blog
Proton
- AWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing service
- AWS Proton introduces customer-managed environments
- AWS Proton adds an API to cancel deployments
CloudFormation
- You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets
- AWS CloudFormation Command Line Interface (CFN-CLI) now supports TypeScript
- AWS CloudFormation Modules now Provides YAML and Delimiter Support
- Now reference latest AWS Systems Manager parameter values in AWS CloudFormation templates without specifying parameter versions
- You can now use macros and transforms in CloudFormation templates to create AWS CloudFormation StackSets
Control Tower
- AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols
- <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/04/aws-control-tower-now-provides-configurable-naming-during-landing-zone-setup
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