Episode 70 - March / April Tech Round-up

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete embark on bit different style of show fast paced a lot of updates. Over 30 updates and we tackle it like speed dating. We started the show some updates as we do, there are now an additional 2 AWS regions, Milan in Italy and Captown in South Africa. This brings the region count to 24 regions and 76 AZ Guard Duty has a price reduction for those customers who are consuming it on the upper end fo the scale, VPC flow log scanning is now 40% cheaper when your logs are more than 10 000GB Lots of Database engine updates * Database engine version updates across almost all engines. Microsoft SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Studio) is now available on RDS SQL Server now. * If you are currently running SSAS on Amazon EC2, you can now save costs by running SSAS directly on the same RDS DB instance as your SQL Server database. SSAS is currently available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017 in the single-AZ configuration on both the Standard and Enterprise edition * NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB is now is now generally available. NoSQL Workbench is a client-side application, available for Windows and macOS, that helps developers build scalable, high-performance data models, and simplifies query development and testing. * Kafka is an option for DMS And Manage Casandra is now available in public preview. Microsoft SQL Server on RDS now supports Read Replicas Storage wise * More nitro based EC2 systems receive IO performance updates * FSX For windows now has a Magnetic HDD option which brings storage down to 1.3c per G * Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems On Development front * AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 12.x and Python 3.8 * Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs * AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/aws-lambda-now-supports-net-core-3-1/ * Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack, no need to use SNS and custom Lambda glue * Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.4.1 * Updates to AWS Deep Learning Containers for PyTorch 1.4.0 and MXNet 1.6.0 Containers * AWS Fargat launches Platform Version 1.4 which brings a raft of improvements * Amazon EKS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.95% * Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles * Amazon EKS adds envelope encryption for secrets with AWS KMS * Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.15 (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/03/amazon-eks-now-supports-kubernetes-version-1-15/) * Amazon ECS supports in Preview updating Placement Strategy and Constraints for existing ECS Services without recreating the service Connect your managed call centre in the cloud * Introducing Voicemail for Amazon Connect * Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF Misc * New versions of Elastic Search available for Amazon Elastic Search * DeepComposer is now shipping from Amazon.com (http://amazon.com/)