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Services

NEW AWS Budgets Console

NEW Neptune GA

NEW Registry of open data

NEW EKS GA

NEW Translate

  • GA
  • 417 language pairs

NEW Transcribe

  • GA
  • Speaker identification
  • multi channel audio
  • real time transcription over websockets

EBS

  • Elastic Volumes!

NEW AppSync

  • Amplify
  • Like 10 million other updates
  • no-code stuff
  • lex stuff
  • just basically everything
  • pipeline resolvers, delta sync, aurora serverless

NEW AWS Application Auto Scaling

** Manage autoscaling for ECS, EC2, RDS, DDB

S3

  • S3 select GA
  • S3 select gets ability to look at compressed stuff
  • S3 increased performance
  • S3 single zone
  • direct put to glacier
  • selective CRR
  • block public access

NEW AWS Secrets Manager

  • SSM Integration
  • RDS auto rotation support
  • use in cloudformation for parameters
  • improved client side caching

X-Ray:

  • Ruby SDK
  • .NET SDK
  • centralized controls
  • group traces

CodeBuild

  • Shallow Clones and GH Enterprise
  • Local build agent
  • windows
  • multi input and output artifacts

CodePipeline

  • Github webhooks
  • Cross region actions
  • Performance improvements

CodeCommit

  • supports creating and editing files via console

CloudFront

  • ECDSA certs
  • origin failover
  • websocket support

KMS

  • FIPS 140-2

CloudWatch

  • Metric Math
  • client side aggregation

Certificate Manager

  • Private CA

Athena

  • Support for views
  • JDBC driver
  • create a table as result of a query

Comprehend

  • Async and batch
  • syntax analysis
  • custom classification

Connect

  • Single Sign-on with SAML
  • SSML support

Config

  • Managed Rules
  • compliance history

Polly

  • Phonation, breathing SSML, speed

DynamoDB

  • SSE at rest, first optional, then by default - for everyone
  • DAX .NET, Go, and Python SDK
  • PITR and continuous backups
  • SLA
  • ddb local docker image

ECS

  • Task metadata endpoint
  • Service discovery
  • Fargate time / event based tasks

Lex

  • console responses
  • schema import / export

R53

  • Auto Naming API
  • Service Health API
  • Interactive Map
  • Amazon Route 53 Resolver (private DNS resolver)

IoT

  • MQTT with client cert
  • IoT core limit increases (x2)
  • IoT Analytics

Elasticache:

  • Redis 4.0
  • Redis 5.0
  • Up to 250 nodes per redis cluster
  • redis auto-failover and backup/restore

Corretto

  • released our own JDK b/c whatever

Cognito

  • Bulk user import
  • auto user protection

Cloudwatch

  • Custom Dashboards outside of the console
  • Automatic dashboard gen

EMR

  • Updates to latest versions of hadoop, presto, etc.
  • EMR notebooks
  • Better support for fleet / spot /etc.

RDS:

  • Read Replicas support multi-az deployments (MySQL + MariaDB)
  • Log files to cloudwatch logs (MySQL + MariaDB)
  • Postgres Engine Updates
  • MySQL Engine Updates
  • MariaDB Updates
  • Oracle Updates
  • Microsoft SQL Server Updates
  • Aurora (MySQL) Parallel Query
  • DMS support for SQL Server
  • T2 and T3 support
  • Fast database cloning
  • Aurora Backtrack
  • Performance insights
  • Best practice recos (like your own DBA)
  • Aurora Serverless
  • Aurora cluster start and stop
  • IAM authentication
  • 32TB storage size
  • aurora custom endpoints
  • aurora serverless data API
  • run queries direct in console

Systems Manager

  • Custom repos for patches / packages

ALB/NLB/ELB

  • Filtering based on tags
  • NLB x-zone LB
  • ALB authentication
  • ALB redirects and fixed responses
  • NLB works over inter-region VPC

SNS

  • Message Filtering

EC2

  • Spot 2 minute warning via cloudwatch events (lets you fire a lambda)
  • Spot pause and resume
  • 5x Network Performance to S3
  • Longer IDs
  • EC2 Fleet
  • EC2 optimize CPUs
  • Bare Metal GA
  • C5d, M5d, R5, R5d, Z1d, T3 instances, u-12tb1
  • Tag on create for EC2 and EBS (small feature, big deal)
  • F1 instance udpates
  • SBE1 instances for snowball edge
  • Systems Manager session manager
  • capacity reservations
  • spot savings view
  • AMD EPYC processors
  • multi instance type ASG
  • amazon elastic graphics
  • Systems Manageradd custom package repos
  • predictive scaling for ASG

CloudFormation

  • A bajillion things
  • Macros
  • Drift Detection
  • new console

EFS

  • Provisioned throughput
  • Upt to 512 locks per file

VPC / Networking

  • New direct connect locations
  • direct connect balance data transfer out
  • direct connect logical redundancy over single VIF
  • Inter-region VPC peering
  • BYOIP
  • Jumbo frame support
  • DNS resolution over inter-region VPC

Kinesis

  • 10x higher call rates for KCL
  • KDA Random Cut Forest and Hotspot detection
  • KDA application limit increase
  • KDA time-series support
  • Firehose support for ORC Parquet
  • gstreamer for video streams
  • HLS output for video streams
  • websockets
  • enhanced fanout

Glue:

  • Scala
  • Reading from DDB tables
  • connect to sagemaker notebooks

Serverless:

  • Go
  • C# (.NET Core 2.0)
  • Node 8
  • SAM open sourced
  • SAM init
  • Higher throughput for step functions
  • APIGW Private APIs
  • SQS AS AN EVENT SOURCE!!!
  • method level throttles in APIGW
  • increased APIGW limits
  • lambda@edge gets request body
  • APIGW xray support
  • powershell core
  • APIGW multi-value params
  • 15 minute functions
  • console updates
  • SLA
  • async lambda double payload size
  • SAR gets a million more resources (R53, SQS, etc.)
  • Python 3.7
  • kinesis enhanced fanout support

Private Link:

  • KMS
  • works over inter-region peered VPC

Redshift

  • Performance on short querys better
  • COPY orc and parquet
  • best practice recomendations
  • run queries in the console
  • elastic resize

IAM

  • Permissions Boundaries
  • Tags!!

Rekognition

  • Peformance improvements
  • Accuracy improvements

SageMaker:

  • autoscaling
  • pipe mode
  • automatic model tuning
  • batch transform jobs
  • warm start for tuning jobs
  • apache airflow integrati

DeepLearning AMI:

  • Frameworks and Updates

Algos:

  • DeepAR
  • BlazingText
  • Word2Vec
  • k-nearest-neighbor
  • Object detection
  • image classification
  • Obj2Vec
  • IP insights

Compliance:

  • SageMaker
    • PCI DSS, HIPAA
  • AMZN Cloud Directory
  • AMZN Connect
    • SOC
  • Fargate
    • PCI, SOC, ISO, HIPAA
  • Rekognition
    • HIPAA
  • Step Functions
    • HIPAA
  • Secrets Manager
    • HIPAA
  • EKS
    • HIPAA
  • Elasticache
    • PCI DSS
  • ECR
    • PCI DSS
  • EFS
    • PCI DSS
  • IoT Core, Device Management
    • HIPAA
  • GuardDuty
    • HIPAA
  • Neptune
    • HIPAA
  • Amazon MQ
    • HIPAA
  • Translate
    • HIPAA
  • ACM
    • HIPAA

ECS Docker Updates

Pricing:

* CloudWatch Tiered Pricing
* S3 Bucket check now free
* Usage based pricing chime
* Quicksight
* Config rule price reduction
* API GW Tiered pricing
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