What's New in May 2021
Update: 2021-08-12
Description
Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown.
News
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Serverless
Lambda
- Getting Started with Your Favorite Operational Tools on AWS Lambda – Extensions Are Now Generally Available | AWS News Blog
- AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3
EventBridge
- Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region
- AWS Step Functions now supports custom events to Amazon EventBridge
Other
- AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps
- Introducing CloudFront Functions – Run Your Code at the Edge with Low Latency at Any Scale | AWS News Blog
- Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows
Containers
EKS
- Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20
- Amazon EBS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver is now generally available
- Use Kubernetes Pod Templates with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS to simplify running Spark workloads and control costs
- Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints
- EKS Add-Ons Now Supports CoreDNS and kube-proxy
Other
- New – AWS App Runner: From Code to a Scalable, Secure Web Application in Minutes | AWS News Blog
- Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks
- AWS announces a price reduction for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP)
- Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports container monitoring
EC2 & VPC
- Four new EC2 High Memory instances with up to 12TB of memory are now available with On-Demand and Savings Plan purchase options
- EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template
- Amazon VPC Announces Pricing Change for VPC Peering
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Introduces Predictive Scaling as a Native Scaling Policy
- AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations
- AWS Outposts launches support for EC2 Capacity Reservations
- Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services
Dev & Ops
Dev
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2 and Go CDK is now available for Developer Preview
- Porting Assistant for .NET now available as a Visual Studio IDE extension
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports customer-managed customer master keys
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports cron expression for scheduling
- AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code adds Java and Go Support for Serverless Applications
- AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
Ops
- Resolve IT Incidents Faster with Incident Manager, a New Capability of AWS Systems Manager | AWS News Blog (Ian's scathing review of this on Twitter)
- Amazon DevOps Guru now generally available with additional capabilities
- Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events
- AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available
- Customizations for AWS Control Tower v2.1 adds more scaling optimizations and improves compatibility with AWS CodeBuild
Security
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources
- AWS Audit Manager now offers three new frameworks - NIST Cybersecurity Framework version 1.1, AWS Foundational Security Best Practices, and AWS Well-Architected framework
- AWS WAF adds support for log filtering
- Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs
- Introducing IAM Access Control for Apache Kafka on Amazon MSK
- AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting
- AWS Security Hub n
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