Welcome to this week’s Weekly News Roundup from the world of AWS and Technology. Some great releases this week, with CloudFront CORS and custom header support, RDS Snapshots cross-account KMS Keys, Deepracer Multi-User support, Managed RStudio on SageMaker, EC2 AMIs being able to be shared in organisations, Secrets Manager getting a limit increase from 40,000 to 500,000, Hadoop support in DataSync and many more.
CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront adds support for cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), security, and custom headers to HTTP responses
Amazon CloudFront has added much-requested support for adding CORS, security and custom headers to HTTP responses in CloudFront, allowing for greater customisation of responses at the CloudFront level.
Machine Learning
Amazon Rekognition adds improved celebrity recognition to Rekognition Video
Amazon Rekognition has added support for improvements made to celebrity recognition for Rekognition images to its video service, allowing for easier tagging of celebrities in videos
AWS Deepracer adds multi-user account management
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-deepracer-multi-user-account-management/
AWS Deepracer has added support for multi-user account management, eliminating the need for separate accounts for Deepracer users
Amazon Sagemaker adds support for inference testing using custom domains and headers
Amazon Sagemaker has added support for testing inference using custom domains and headers, allowing for quicker testing iteration
Amazon Sagemaker announces Fully Managed RStudio
Amazon Sagemaker has announced support for a fully-managed version of RStudio, the popular data science and machine learning IDE for the R Language.
Big Data
AWS Lake Formation now supports AWS Privatelink
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-lake-formation-supports-aws-privatelink/
AWS Lake Formation has added support for AWS PrivateLink VPC Endpoints allowing you to securely manage access from inside your VPC and on-premise systems
Amazon EMR Studio announces support for connecting to clusters in different subnets
Amazon EMR Studio adds support for EMR clusters in different Subnets, allowing for greater communication between clusters and better separation of clusters.
EC2 Instances / LightSail
Amazon EC2 adds support for sharing Amazon Machine Images across Organisations
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/10/amazon-ec2-amazon-machine-images-organizations/
Amazon EC2 adds support for sharing AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) across accounts in an Organisation, allowing for easier sharing of snapshots of EC2 Instances for new instance creation.
Amazon LightSail adds support for CloudFormation
Amazon LightSail has added support for AWS CloudFormation, allowing Infrastructure as Code to be used to provision LightSail resources.
Amazon EC2 adds support for connecting to Red Hat Knowledgebase
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-ec2-red-hat-knowledgebase/
Amazon EC2 adds support for connecting to Red Hat Knowledgebase. The Knowledgebase is a library of articles, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and best-practice guides to help customers solve technical issues. This step now avoids the need to contact AWS premium support to gain access.
Containers
AWS App Mesh adds Metric Extension
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/10/aws-app-mesh-metric-extension-available/
AWS App Mesh has released a Metric Extension allowing for the collection of metric data across services linked to App Mesh, allowing for greater visibility of how your system is performing.
AWS App2Container now supports ECS Fargate Windows Containers
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/10/aws-app2container-ecs-fargate-windows/
AWS App2Container, the service for packaging up an application into a container, now supports Windows Containers running on ECS Fargate.
Databases
Amazon Redshift adds support for SQLAlchemeny and Apache Airflow
Amazon Redshift has announced native support for SQLAlchecmy and Apache Airflow, allowing for greater control and connectivity in Redshift
Amazon RDS adds support for cross-account KMS keys for snapshots
Amazon RDS adds support for cross-account KMS Keys for snapshots, eliminating the need for snapshots to be re-encrypted by the target account’s KMS key when sharing a snapshot of a database.
Amazon Database Activity Streams now support Graviton2 based instances
Amazon Database Activity Streams for Aurora now support the Graviton2 base instance types allowing for performance increases and cost savings.
AWS RDS Outposts adds support for exporting database logs to Amazon CloudWatch
AWS RDS Outposts now support the offloading of RDS logs to Amazon CloudWatch, allowing for centralised collecting of logs for analysis.
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis adds support for CloudFormation
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-memorydb-redis-aws-cloudformation/
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis has added support for AWS CloudFormation, allowing the creation of resources to be done via Infrastructure as Code.
Lambda
AWS Lambda adds support for cross-account Images from Elastic Container Registry
AWS Lambda has added support for cross-account container images from the Elastic Container Registry, allowing for a centralised approach to storing images in ECR.
DevOps
AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit from 40,000 to 500,000
AWS Secrets Manager has increased the number of entries that can be stored per account from 40,000 to 500,000.
Amazon DevOps Gura extends coverage to Amazon EKS metrics
Amazon DevOps Guru has added coverage to Amazon EKS clusters, allowing for the monitoring of Kubernetes deployments within DevOps Guru.
AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS Privatelink
AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS Privatelink VPC Endpoints, allowing for private access to Security Hub APIs without having to traverse the internet.
Migration
AWS DataSync adds support for Hadoop based storage to AWS Storage Service migrations
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/aws-datasync-hadoop-aws-storage-services/
AWS DataSync has added support for migrating data stored on Hadoop based storage (HDFS) into AWS services, such as S3, EFS or FSx for Windows.
AWS SAM
AWS SAM adds support for popular CI/CD pipelines and systems
AWS SAM has added support for creating CI/CD pipelines for popular systems such as CloudBees CI/Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, and AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline.
AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify adds support for new data management capabilities
AWS Amplify has added support for new data management capabilities within the Amplify admin, simplifying creating and managing your data in Amplify, and allowing for more realistic demo data that is quickly shareable.
IoT
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports managed over the air updates for firmware
AWS IoT Core for wireless devices that use low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) technology to connect to the AWS Cloud, has added support for over the air updates to Firmware.
Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint adds in-app messaging
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/11/amazon-pinpoint-in-app-messaging/
Amazon Pinpoint has added support for in-app messaging allowing customers to design and preview message templates to be shown to end-users.
Transit Gateway
AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager adds new APIS for route analysis
AWS Transit Gateway has added support for new Network Manager APIs to get information about the network such as resources, health status, routes and allows for route analysis of the Transit Gateway network.
Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect Chat adds real-time message streaming
Amazon Connect Chat has added new real-time message streaming through APIs to enable customisable experiences.
SES
Amazon Simple Email Service launches new console experience
Amazon SES has launched a new console experience with a redesigned interface with a simpler, more intuitive way to create and manage their resources, collect sending activity data, and monitor reputation health
Quantum Ledger Database
Amazon QLDB adds a new version of QLDB Shell
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/10/amazon-qldb-new-version-qldb-shell/
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database has launched a new version of the QLDB Shell that is easier to install and use.
