What's New in October 2020
Update: 2020-11-18
Description
In another slightly delayed episode Arjen, JM, and Guy talk about all the many things that were announced in October. But before that, they will first discuss exactly how badly Lex understands "a fair shake of the sauce bottle".
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The News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots using the Australian English dialect
- Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, now available in 15 additional regions
- AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Snapshot Export to S3 available in additional regions
Serverless
- Introducing AWS Lambda Extensions – In preview | AWS Compute Blog
- Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights (preview)
- New – Use AWS PrivateLink to Access AWS Lambda Over Private AWS Network | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EventBridge announces support for Dead Letter Queues
- AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integration
- Amazon API Gateway now supports disabling the default REST API endpoint
Containers
- Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.18
- Amazon EKS now supports the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
- Amazon EKS now supports configurable Kubernetes service IP address range
- Amazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer Preview
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Running Multi-Container Applications on AL2 based Docker Platform
- Fluent Bit supports Amazon S3 as a destination to route container logs
- AWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate Authority
- Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller
- AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and more
EC2 & VPC
- AWS Nitro Enclaves – Isolated EC2 Environments to Process Confidential Data | AWS News Blog
- Announcing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves
- New – Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC | AWS News Blog
- AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations with Amazon EBS metrics
- AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters
- AWS Global Accelerator launches port overrides
- AWS IoT SiteWise launches support for VPC private links
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports health notifications
Dev & Ops
- AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas
- AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available
- AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports prebuilt canary monitoring dashboard
- Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics launches Recorder to generate user flow scripts for canaries
- AWS and Grafana Labs launch AWS X-Ray data source plugin
- Now author AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using Visual Studio Code
- AWS Systems Manager now supports free-text search of runbooks
- AWS Systems Manager now allows filtering automation executions by applications or environments
- Now use AWS Systems Manager to view vulnerability identifiers for missing patches on your Linux instances
- Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager now support multiple simultaneous connections
- Now customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profiles
- AWS End of Support Migration Program for Windows Server now available as a self-serve solution for customers
- EC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accounts
- Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
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