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Podcast #299: February 2019 Updates

February 18, 2019 by knightglen_sruobz

Simon guides you through lots of new features, services and capabilities that you can take advantage of. Including the new AWS Backup service, more powerful GPU capabilities, new SLAs and much, much more!

Chapters:

Service Level Agreements 0:17
Storage 0:57
Media Services 5:08
Developer Tools 6:17
Analytics 9:54
AI/ML 12:07
Database 14:47
Networking & Content Delivery 17:32
Compute 19:02
Solutions 21:57
Business Applications 23:38
AWS Cost Management 25:07
Migration & Transfer 25:39
Application Integration 26:07
Management & Governance 26:32
End User Computing 29:22

Additional Resources

Topic || Service Level Agreements 0:17

• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

• Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

• Amazon EKS Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

• Amazon ECR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

• Amazon Cognito Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

• AWS Step Functions Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

• AWS Secrets Manager Announces Service Level Agreement

• Amazon MQ Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement

Topic || Storage 0:57

• Introducing AWS Backup

• Introducing Amazon Elastic File System Integration with AWS Backup

• AWS Storage Gateway Integrates with AWS Backup – Amazon Web Services

• Amazon EBS Integrates with AWS Backup to Protect Your Volumes

• AWS Storage Gateway Volume Detach and Attach – Amazon Web Services

• AWS Storage Gateway – Tape Gateway Performance

• Amazon FSx for Lustre Offers New Options and Faster Speeds for Working with S3 Data

Topic || Media Services 5:08

• AWS Elemental MediaConvert Adds IMF Input and Enhances Caption Burn-In Support

• AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds Support for AWS CloudTrail

• AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports Resource Tagging

• AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds I-Frame-Only HLS Manifests and JPEG Outputs

Topic || Developer Tools 6:17

• Amazon Corretto is Now Generally Available

• AWS CodePipeline Now Supports Deploying to Amazon S3

• AWS Cloud9 Supports AWS CloudTrail Logging

• AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Accessing Images from Private Docker Registry

• Develop and Test AWS Step Functions Workflows Locally

• AWS X-Ray SDK for .NET Core is Now Generally Available

Topic || Analytics 9:54

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service doubles maximum cluster capacity with 200 node cluster support

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch 6.4

• Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports three Availability Zone deployments

• Now bring your own KDC and enable Kerberos authentication in Amazon EMR

• Source code for the AWS Glue Data Catalog client for Apache Hive Metastore is now available for download

Topic || AI/ML 12:07

• Amazon Comprehend is now Integrated with AWS CloudTrail

• Object Bounding Boxes and More Accurate Object and Scene Detection are now Available for Amazon Rekognition Video

• Amazon Elastic Inference Now Supports TensorFlow 1.12 with a New Python API

• New in AWS Deep Learning AMIs: Updated Elastic Inference for TensorFlow, TensorBoard 1.12.1, and MMS 1.0.1

• Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports TFRecord Format

• Amazon Transcribe Now Supports US Spanish Speech-to-Text in Real Time

Topic || Database 14:47

• Amazon Redshift now runs ANALYZE automatically

• Introducing Python Shell Jobs in AWS Glue

• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports T3 Instance Types

• Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports T3 Instance Types

• Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports SQLT Diagnostics Tool Version 12.2.180725

• Amazon RDS for Oracle Now Supports January 2019 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU)

• Amazon DynamoDB Local Adds Support for Transactional APIs, On-Demand Capacity Mode, and 20 GSIs

Topic || Networking and Content Delivery 17:32

• Network Load Balancer Now Supports TLS Termination

• Amazon CloudFront announces six new Edge locations across United States and France

• AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IKEv2

• VPC Route Tables Support up to 1,000 Static Routes

Topic || Compute 19:02

• Announcing a 25% price reduction for Amazon EC2 X1 Instances in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region

• Amazon EKS Achieves ISO and PCI Compliance

• AWS Fargate Now Has Support For AWS PrivateLink

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for Ruby 2.6v

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk Adds Support for .NET Core 2.2

• Amazon ECS and Amazon ECR now have support for AWS PrivateLink

• GPU Support for Amazon ECS now Available

• AWS Batch now supports Amazon EC2 A1 Instances and EC2 G3s Instances

Topic || Solutions 21:57

• Deploy Micro Focus Enterprise Server on AWS with New Quick Start

• AWS Public Datasets Now Available from UK Meteorological Office, Queensland Government, University of Pennsylvania, Buildzero, and Others

• Quick Start Update: Active Directory Domain Services on the AWS Cloud

• Introducing the Media2Cloud solution

Topic || Business Applications 23:38

• Alexa for Business now offers IT admins simplified workflow to setup shared devices

Topic || AWS Cost Management 25:07

• Introducing Normalized Units Information for Amazon EC2 Reservations in AWS Cost Explorer

Topic || Migration and Transfer 25:39

• AWS Migration Hub Now Supports Importing On-Premises Server and Application Data to Track Migration Progress

Topic || Application Integration 26:07

• Amazon SNS Message Filtering Adds Support for Multiple String Values in Blacklist Matching

Topic || Management and Governance 26:32

• AWS Trusted Advisor Expands Functionality With New Best Practice Checks

• AWS Systems Manager State Manager Now Supports Management of In-Guest and Instance-Level Configuration

• AWS Config Increases Default Limits for AWS Config Rules

• VIntroducing AWS CloudFormation UpdateReplacePolicy Attribute

• Automate WebSocket API Creation in Amazon API Gateway Using AWS CloudFormation

• AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise Now Support AWS CloudFormation

• VPC Route Tables Support up to 1,000 Static Routes

• Amazon CloudWatch Agent Adds Support for Procstat Plugin and Multiple Configuration Files

• Improve Security Of Your AWS SSO Users Signing In To The User Portal By Using Email-based Verification

Topic || End User Computing 29:22

• Introducing Amazon WorkLink

• AppStream 2.0 enables custom scripts before session start and after session termination

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