What’s new in October 2021
Update: 2022-01-17
Description
A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.
News
Finally in Sydney
- Amazon EC2 Mac instances are now available in seven additional AWS Regions
- Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
Serverless
Lambda
- AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account
- AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
Step Functions
- Now — AWS Step Functions Supports 200 AWS Services To Enable Easier Workflow Automation | AWS News Blog
- AWS Batch adds console support for visualizing AWS Step Functions workflows
Amplify
- Announcing General Availability of Amplify Geo for AWS Amplify
- AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports resumable file uploads for Storage
Other
Containers
- Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket
- AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
- Announcing the general availability of cdk8s and support for Go | Containers
- Monitoring clock accuracy on AWS Fargate with Amazon ECS
- Amazon ECS Anywhere now supports GPU-based workloads
- AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service
- AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets
- AWS App Mesh Metric Extension is now generally available
EC2 & VPC
- New – Amazon EC2 C6i Instances Powered by the Latest Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors | AWS News Blog
- Amazon EC2 now supports sharing Amazon Machine Images across AWS Organizations and Organizational Units
- Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types
- Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports describing Auto Scaling groups using tags
- Amazon EC2 now offers Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
- AWS FPGA developer kit now supports Jumbo frames in virtual ethernet frameworks for Amazon EC2 F1 instances
- Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports Apache Parquet, Hive-compatible prefixes and Hourly partitioned files
- Network Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
- New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2 Fleet | AWS News Blog
- Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation for instances, disks and databases
Dev & Ops
CLI
- AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS & Third-Party Services | AWS News Blog
- Now programmatically manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
CodeGuru
- Amazon CodeGuru now includes recommendations powered by Infer
- Amazon CodeGuru announces Security detectors for Python applications and security analysis powered by Bandit
- Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer adds detectors for AWS Java SDK v2’s best practices and features
IaC
- AWS CDK releases v1.121.0 - v1.125.0 with features for faster development cycles using hotswap deployments and rollback control
- AWS CloudFormation customers can now manage their applications in AWS Systems Manager
Other
- NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
- Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates
- Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Spot Interruptions
- AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions
Security
Firewalls
- AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS Network Firewall logs
- AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop
Backups
- AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports
- AWS Backup adds an additional layer for backup protection with the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock
Other
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