#259: August Service Update Show

Published: Aug. 19, 2018, 9:08 p.m.

b'Simon takes you through a great list of new services, functions and capabilities - hopefully something for everyone!\\n\\nShownotes:\\nAWS Global Infrastructure: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/\\nAmazon EFS Now Supports Provisioned Throughput | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-efs-now-supports-provisioned-throughput/\\nAmazon EFS Achieves PCI DSS Compliance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-efs-achieves-pci-dss-compliance/\\nAmazon EC2 P3 instances, one of the most powerful GPU instances in the cloud, now available in 6 additional regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ec2-p3-instances-now-available-in-6-additional-regions/\\nNew SBE1 Amazon EC2 instances for AWS Snowball Edge | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/new-sbe1-instances-for-snowball-edge/\\nIntroducing Amazon EC2 R5 Instances, the next generation of memory-optimized instances | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-ec2-r5-instances/\\nIntroducing Amazon EC2 z1d Instances with a sustained all core frequency of up to 4.0 GHz | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-ec2-z1d-instances/\\nAmazon EC2 M5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ec2-m5d-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/\\nAmazon EC2 C5d Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-ec2-c5d-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-regions/\\nAmazon EC2 F1 Instances Adds New Features and Performance Improvements | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-ec2-f1-instances-adds-new-features-and-performance-improvements/\\nAmazon EC2 Fleet Now Supports Two New Allocation Strategies: On-Demand Prioritized List, and Lowest Price | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-ec2-fleet-now-supports-two-new-allocation-strategies/\\nAmazon EC2 Nitro System Based Instances Now Support Faster Amazon EBS-Optimized Instance Performance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-ec2-nitro-system-based-instances-now-support-faster-ebs-optimized-performance/\\nAccess Reserved Instance (RI) Purchase Recommendations for your Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Elasticsearch Reservations using AWS Cost Explorer | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/reserved-instance-purchase-recommendations-redshift-elasticache-elasticsearch-reservations/\\nAWS Systems Manager Run Command Now Streams Output to Amazon CloudWatch Logs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-systems-manager-run-command-streams-output-to-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/\\nAWS Systems Manager Automation Conditional Branching for Step Failure | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-systems-manager-automation-conditional-branching-for-step-failure/\\nAmazon EKS AMI Build Scripts Available on GitHub | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-eks-ami-build-scripts-available-on-github/\\nAdd Scaling to Services You Build on AWS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/add-scaling-to-services-you-build-on-aws/\\nAnnouncing Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Preview) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/announcing-bring-your-own-ip-for-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-preview/\\nIntroducing Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager for EBS Snapshots | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/introducing-amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-for-ebs-snapshots/\\nAmazon S3 Announces Increased Request Rate Performance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-s3-announces-increased-request-rate-performance/\\nAmazon CloudFront announces four new Edge locations, including its first location in Cape Town, South Africa | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/cloudfront-capetown-launch/\\nAmazon CloudFront announces nine new Edge locations globally across major cities in North America, Europe, and Asia | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/cloudfront-nine-edge-locations-july2018/\\nAmazon Route 53 Expands Into Africa With New Edge Locations in Cape Town and Johannesburg | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-route-53-expands-into-africa-with-new-edge-locations-in-cape-town-and-johannesburg/\\nAmazon API Gateway Increases API Limits | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-api-gateway-increases-api-limits/\\nAmazon API Gateway Usage Plans Now Support Method Level Throttling | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/api-gateway-usage-plans-support-method-level-throttling/\\nAmazon API Gateway Supports Request/Response Parameters and Status Overrides | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/api-gateway-supports-request-response-parameters-and-status-overrides/\\nAutomate Amazon GuardDuty Provisioning Over Multiple Accounts and Regions with AWS CloudFormation StackSets Integration | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/automate-amazon-guardduty-provisioning-over-multiple-accounts-and-regions-with-aws-cloudformation-stacksets-integration/\\nAWS Secrets Manager Now Supports AWS PrivateLink | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-secrets-manager-now-supports-aws-privatelink/\\nAWS Systems Manager Parameter Store integrates with AWS Secrets Manager, and adds labeling for easy configuration updates | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-systems-manager-parameter-store-integrates-with-aws-secrets-manager-and-adds-parameter-version-labeling/\\nDelegate Permission Management to Employees by Using IAM Permissions Boundaries | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/delegate-permission-management-to-employees-by-using-IAM-permissions-boundaries/\\nAWS Lambda Supports .NET Core 2.1 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/06/lambda-supports-dotnetcore-twopointone/\\nAWS Glue now provides additional ETL job metrics | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-now-provides-additional-ETL-job-metrics/\\nAWS Glue now supports reading from Amazon DynamoDB tables | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-glue-now-supports-reading-from-amazon-dynamodb-tables/\\nThe Data Lake Solution Now Transforms and Analyzes Data | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/the-data-lake-solution-now-transforms-and-analyzes-data/\\nAWS Marketplace Helps Customers Quickly Map Products in Their Existing Software Inventory | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-marketplace-helps-customers-quickly-map-products-in-their-existing-software-inventory/\\nAmazon SageMaker Now Supports Resource Tags for More Efficient Access Control | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-resource-tags-for-more-efficient-access-control/\\nAmazon SageMaker Supports High Throughput Batch Transform Jobs for Non-Real Time Inferencing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-supports-high-throughput-batch-transform-jobs-for-non-real-time-inferencing/\\nAmazon SageMaker Now Supports Pipe Input Mode for Built-In TensorFlow Containers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-supports-pipe-input-mode-for-built-in-tensorflow-containers/\\nAmazon SageMaker Now Supports k-Nearest-Neighbor and Object Detection Algorithms | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-supports-knn-and-object-detection-algorithms/\\nAmazon SageMaker Announces Several Enhancements to Built-in Algorithms and Frameworks | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-sagemaker-announces-enhancements-for-built-in-algorithms-and-frameworks/\\nAWS Service Catalog Now Supports Service Catalog Resources in CloudFormation | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-service-catalog-now-supports-service-catalog-resources-in-cloudformation/\\nKinesis Video Streams now supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) to playback live and recorded video from devices | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/kinesis-video-adds-hls-support/\\nAmazon Polly Now Lets You Define the Maximum Amount of Time for Speech to Complete | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-polly-now-lets-you-define-the-maximum-amount-of-time-for-speech-to-complete/\\nAmazon Polly Now Supports Input Character Limit of 100K and Stores Output Files in S3 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-polly-now-supports-input-character-limit-of-100k-and-stores-output-files-in-s3/\\nAmazon Polly Adds Bilingual Indian English/Hindi Language Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-polly-adds-bilingual-indian-english-hindi-language-support/\\nAmazon Translate Adds Six New Languages | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-translate-adds-six-new-languages/\\nAmazon Transcribe Now Lets You Designate Your Own Amazon S3 Buckets to Store Transcription Outputs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-transcribe-now-lets-you-designate-your-own-amazon-s3-buckets-to-store-transcription-outputs/\\nAmazon Comprehend Now Supports Syntax Analysis | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-comprehend-now-supports-syntax-analysis/\\nAmazon Rekognition Increases Accuracy of Text-in-Image | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-rekognition-increases-accuracy-of-text-in-image/\\nAWS AppSync releases enhanced no-code GraphQL API builder, HTTP resolvers, and new built-in scalar types | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-appsync-releases-enhanced-capabilities-nocode-graphql/\\nIntroducing the Serverless Bot Framework | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/introducing-the-serverless-bot-framework/\\nAWS SAM CLI Launches New Commands to Simplify Testing and Debugging Serverless Applications | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/aws-sam-cli-launches-new-commands/\\nAWS Device Farm Adds Integration with AWS CodePipeline | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-device-farm-adds-integration-with-aws-codepipeline/\\nAmazon Aurora Serverless Brings Serverless Computing to Relational Databases | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-aurora-serverless-brings-serverless-computing-to-relational-databases/\\nAmazon RDS now Provides Best Practice Recommendations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-rds-recommendations/\\nCopying Amazon RDS Encrypted Snapshots across Regions now Completes Faster with Less Storage | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/rds-crossregion-incremental-encrypted-snapshots/\\nAmazon RDS Performance Insights on RDS for PostgreSQL | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/04/rds-performance-insights-on-rds-for-postgresql/\\nPerformance Insights is Available for Amazon Aurora with MySQL Compatibility | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/performance-insights-is-available-for-amazon-aurora-with-mysql-compatibility/\\nAmazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK Enhancements | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator--dax--sdk-enhancements/\\nAmazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Adds Support for Encryption at Rest | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-dynamodb-accelerator--dax--adds-support-for-encryption-at/\\nAmazon DynamoDB Global Tables Now Available in Three Additional Asia Pacific Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-regional-expansion/\\nAmazon Redshift announces free upgrade for DC1 Reserved Instances to DC2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon_redshift_announces_free_upgrade_for_dc1_reserved_instances_to_dc2/\\nAmazon Redshift now provides customized best practice recommendations with Advisor | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-redshift-now-provides-customized-best-practice-recommendations-with-advisor/\\nAmazon Redshift now supports current and trailing tracks for release updates | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-redshift-now-supports-current-and-trailing-tracks-for-release-updates/\\nAmazon Redshift announces new metrics to help optimize cluster performance | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/amazon-redshift-announces-new-metrics-to-help-optimize-cluster-performance/\\nAmazon Redshift announces support for lateral column alias reference | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-redshift-announces-support-for-lateral-column-alias-reference/\\nAmazon Redshift automatically enables short query acceleration | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-redshift-automatically-enables-short-query-acceleration/\\nAmazon Redshift announces support for nested data with Redshift Spectrum | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon-redshift-announces-support-for-nested-data-with-redshift-spectrum/\\nElastic Load Balancing Announces Support for Redirects and Fixed Responses for Application Load Balancer | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/elastic-load-balancing-announces-support-for-redirects-and-fixed-responses-for-application-load-balancer/\\nAWS IoT Device Defender - Now Generally Available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/aws-iot-device-defender-now-generally-available/\\nAWS IoT Rules Engine Now Supports Step Functions Action | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-iot-rules-engine-now-supports-step-functions-action/\\nStream data 65% faster with 5x higher fan-out using new Kinesis Data Streams features | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/stream_data_65_faster_with_5x_higher_fan_out_using_new_kinesis_data_streams_features/\\nAmazon Elasticsearch Service now supports zero downtime, in-place version upgrades | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/08/amazon_elasticsearch_service_now_supports_zero_downtime_in-place_version_upgrades/\\nAnnouncing the New AWS Free Tier Widget on the AWS Billing Dashboard | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/aws-billing-dashboard-free-tier-widget/\\nNew AWS Public Datasets Available from Allen Institute for Brain Science, NOAA, Hubble Space Telescope, and Others | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/07/new-aws-public-datasets-available/'