#291: January 2019 Update

Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 8:32 p.m.

b'Simon takes you through a nice mix of updates and new things to take advantage of - even a price drop!\\n\\nChapters:\\nService Level Agreements 00:19\\nPrice Reduction 1:15\\nDatabases 2:09\\nService Region Expansion 3:52\\nAnalytics 5:23\\nMachine Learning 7:13\\nCompute 7:55\\nIoT 9:37\\nManagement 10:43\\nMobile 11:33\\nDesktop 12:30\\nCertification 13:11\\n\\nShownotes:\\nTopic || Service Level Agreements 00:19\\nAmazon API Gateway announces service level agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/api-gateway-introduces-service-level-agreement/\\nAmazon EMR Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-emr-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/\\nAmazon EFS Announces 99.9% Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-efs-announces-99-9-service-level-agreement/\\nAWS Direct Connect Service Level Agreement | https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/sla/\\n\\nTopic || Price Reduction 1:15\\nAnnouncing AWS Fargate Price Reduction by Up To 50% | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/announcing-aws-fargate-price-reduction-by-up-to-50-/\\n\\n\\nTopic || Databases 2:09\\n\\nIntroducing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) \\u2013 Generally available | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-documentdb-with-mongodb-compatibility-generally-available/\\nAWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Amazon DocumentDB with MongoDB compatibility as a target | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-database-migration-service-adds-support-for-amazon-documentdb/\\n\\n\\nTopic || Service Region Expansion 3:52\\n\\nAmazon EC2 High Memory Instances are Now Available in Additional AWS Regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ec2-high-memory-instances-are-now-available-in-additional-aws-regions/\\nAmazon Neptune is Now Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon_neptune_is_now_available_in_sydney/\\nAmazon EKS Available in Seoul Region | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-eks-available-in-seoul-region/\\nAWS Glue is now available in the AWS EU (Paris) Region | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-glue-is-now-available-in-the-aws-eu-paris-region/\\nAmazon EC2 X1e Instances are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Region | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ec2-x1e-instances-are-now-available-in-the-asia-pacific-seoul-aws-region/\\nAmazon Pinpoint is now available in three additional regions | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-pinpoint-is-now-available-in-three-additional-regions/\\n\\n\\nTopic || Analytics 5:23\\nAmazon QuickSight Launches Pivot Table Enhancements, Cross-Schema Joins and More | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-quickSight-launche-pivot-table-enhancements-cross-schema-joins-and-more/\\n\\nTopic || Machine Learning 7:13\\n\\nAmazon SageMaker now supports encrypting all inter-node communication for distributed training | https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/train-encrypt.html\\n\\nTopic || Compute 7:55\\n\\nAmazon EC2 Spot now Provides Results for the \\u201cDescribe Spot Instance Request\\u201d in Multiple Pages | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/amazon-ec2-spot-now-supports-paginated-describe-for-spot-instance-requests/\\nAnnouncing Windows Server 2019 AMIs for Amazon EC2 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/announcing-windows-server-2019-amis-for-amazon-ec2/\\nAWS Step Functions Now Supports Resource Tagging | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-step-functions-now-supports-resource-tagging/\\n\\n\\nTopic || IoT 9:37\\n\\nAWS IoT Core Now Enables Customers to Store Messages for Disconnected Devices | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-iot-core-now-enables-customers-to-store-messages-for-disconnected-devices/\\nRenesas RX65N System on Chip is Qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/renesas-rx65n-system-on-chip-qualified-for-amazon-freertos/\\n\\nTopic || Management 10:43\\n\\nAWS Config adds support for AWS Service Catalog | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-config-adds-support-for-aws-service-catalog/\\nAWS Single Sign-On Now Enables You to Direct Users to a Specific AWS Management Console Page | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-single-sign-on-now-enables-you-to-direct-users-to-a-specific-aws-management-console-page/\\n\\nTopic || Mobile 11:33\\naws-device-farm-now-supports-appium-node.js-and-appium-ruby | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/aws-device-farm-now-supports-appium-nodejs-and-appium-ruby/\\n\\nTopic || Desktop 12:30\\nDeploy Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on AWS with New Quick Start | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/deploy-citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops-service-on-aws-with-new-quick-start/\\n\\nTopic || Certification 13:11\\nAnnouncing the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder - Specialty Beta Exam | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/announcing-aws-certified-alexa-skill-builder-beta-exam/'