AWS Roadmap Items of Interest November 18, 2019

Fun fact of the week:

The cigarette lighter was invented before the first conventional, friction-based match. The German chemist Johann Dobereiner invented the lighter in 1823 using hydrogen and platinum.

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Hello Team!

On behalf of your AWS Enterprise Account Team I present a recap of last week's launches.

Follow the AWS Blog and What's New from Amazon Web Services for up-to-date news on new releases and additional information not covered here.

Please contact us if you have any questions or need more information on any of these services.

 

Last 7 days launch recap (54 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Date

Item

November 18, 2019

AWS launches FireLens, a log router for Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate 

November 18, 2019

Amazon CloudWatch Launches Embedded Metric Format

November 18, 2019

AWS ParallelCluster 2.5.0 with Intel HPC Platform Specification, NICE DCV, Slurm 19, and More

November 15, 2019

Elastic Fabric Adapter is now compatible with Intel® MPI Library

November 15, 2019

AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4

November 15, 2019

Amazon DynamoDB adaptive capacity now handles imbalanced workloads better by isolating frequently accessed items automatically

November 15, 2019

AWS App Mesh increases default limits on several resources

November 15, 2019

Support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos Encoding Now Available with AWS Elemental MediaConvert

November 15, 2019

Support record-level insert, update, and delete on Amazon S3 with Amazon EMR

November 15, 2019

AWS AppSync adds Real-Time enhancements with Pure WebSockets support for GraphQL Subscriptions

November 15, 2019

Parameter Store announces enhanced search experience

November 15, 2019

Amazon GuardDuty Supports Exporting Findings to an Amazon S3 Bucket

November 15, 2019

Amazon WorkSpaces introduces WorkSpaces Directory APIs

November 15, 2019

Amazon Redshift announces a console refresh to improve management and monitoring of your data warehouse

November 15, 2019

Amazon SNS Adds Support for Dead-Letter Queues (DLQ)

November 15, 2019

Amazon Redshift launches cross-instance restore

November 14, 2019

Amazon Elastic Container Service publishes multiple GitHub Actions

November 14, 2019

Automate your operational playbooks with AWS Systems Manager

November 14, 2019

Amazon WorkSpaces is Now Available in the China (Ningxia) Region

November 14, 2019

Amazon Connect launches tagging support for the User Management API

November 14, 2019

Amazon SES Now Supports FIPS 140-2 Compliant Endpoints

November 14, 2019

AWS CodePipeline Enables Passing Variables Between Actions At Execution Time

November 13, 2019

Easily deploy SQL Server Always On solutions using the AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server

November 13, 2019

You now can configure table settings when you restore a table from your Amazon DynamoDB backups

November 13, 2019

Introducing AWS Data Exchange

November 13, 2019

AWS Firewall Manager is Now Available in 5 Additional AWS Regions

November 13, 2019

Amazon ElastiCache now supports T3-Standard cache nodes

November 13, 2019

Amazon RDS Performance Insights Supports Counter Metrics on Amazon RDS for SQL Server

November 13, 2019

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the China (Ningxia) Region, Operated by NWCD

November 13, 2019

AWS Fargate is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region

November 13, 2019

Data Lifecycle Manager now supports adding tags to the lifecycle policy

November 13, 2019

Bring Your Own IP for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is Now Available in Five Additional Regions

November 13, 2019

Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Speech-to-text in 8 Additional Languages

November 13, 2019

You can now create 20 global secondary indexes and have 100 projected index attributes per Amazon DynamoDB table in AWS GovCloud (US)

November 13, 2019

Amazon CloudSearch provides option to mandate HTTPS & minimum TLS version

November 13, 2019

AWS CloudFormation Launches Resource Import 

November 13, 2019

Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports additional functions

November 13, 2019

Amazon Chime Voice Connector adds the US West (Oregon) AWS region and redundant call routing

November 13, 2019

AWS Cost Explorer now supports Hourly and Resource Level Granularity

November 13, 2019

AWS IoT Device Management Introduces New Fleet-Level Metrics for an Enhanced Querying Experience

November 12, 2019

Amazon EC2 AMD Instances are Now Available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region

November 12, 2019

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB adds support for DynamoDB local

November 12, 2019

Amazon RDS for Oracle Z1d instances are now available in additional regions

November 12, 2019

Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core updated to .NET Core 3.0

November 12, 2019

AWS Systems Manager Distributor enables in-place update of software packages

November 12, 2019

Amazon Athena is now available in Middle East (Bahrain) 

November 12, 2019

Amazon QuickSight launches Actions for dashboard interactivity, UI based ingestion history and more

November 11, 2019

AWS Config Adds Support for AWS Key Management Service and Amazon Elasticsearch Service

November 11, 2019

Amazon Encryption SDK for JavaScript now Generally Available

November 11, 2019

AWS CloudFormation updates for Amazon API Gateway, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Amplify, Amazon ES, AWS App Mesh and more

November 11, 2019

Use the AWS CLI v2 preview with AWS Single Sign-on to increase developer productivity

November 11, 2019

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports R5 and T3 instances types

November 11, 2019

AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS regions

November 11, 2019

Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the EU (London) and EU (Paris) Regions

 

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date

Item

November 18, 2019

In The Works – New AMD-Powered, Compute-Optimized EC2 Instances (C5a/C5ad)

November 16, 2019

Now available: Batch Recommendations in Amazon Personalize

November 15, 2019

New – Insert, Update, Delete Data on S3 with Amazon EMR and Apache Hudi

November 14, 2019

New Automation Features In AWS Systems Manager

November 13, 2019

Accelerate SQL Server Always On Deployments with AWS Launch Wizard

November 13, 2019

AWS Data Exchange – Find, Subscribe To, and Use Data Products

November 13, 2019

New – Import Existing Resources into a CloudFormation Stack

November 11, 2019

15 Years of AWS Blogging!

 

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date

Item

November 15, 2019

Fall 2019 SOC reports now available with 116 services in scope

November 12, 2019

AWS Security Profiles: Avni Rambhia, Senior Product Manager, CloudHSM

November 11, 2019

How to enable encryption in a browser with the AWS Encryption SDK for JavaScript and Node.js

 

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date

Item

November 12, 2019

FogHorn: Edge-to-Edge Communication and Deep Learning

 

No Security Advisories

 

Amazon Linux Advisories last 30 days:

Date

Item

November 16, 2019

ALAS-2019-1318 (medium): microcode_ctl, kernel

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1317 (important): subversion

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1316 (medium): docker

November 01, 2019

ALAS-2019-1315 (critical): php71, php72, php73, php56

October 30, 2019

ALAS-2019-1314 (medium): python27, python34, python35, python36

October 30, 2019

ALAS-2019-1313 (medium): openssh

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1312 (important): patch

October 24, 2019

ALAS-2019-1311 (medium): httpd24

October 24, 2019

ALAS-2019-1310 (critical): exim

 

Amazon Linux 2 Advisories last 30 days:

Date

Item

November 16, 2019

ALAS-2019-1364 (medium): microcode_ctl, kernel

November 14, 2019

ALAS-2019-1363 (medium): spice-gtk

November 14, 2019

ALAS-2019-1362 (medium): openssl

November 14, 2019

ALAS-2019-1361 (medium): libvirt

November 14, 2019

ALAS-2019-1360 (medium): libseccomp

November 14, 2019

ALAS-2019-1359 (medium): libevent

November 14, 2019

ALAS-2019-1358 (medium): binutils

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1357 (low): zziplib

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1356 (medium): uriparser

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1355 (low): unzip

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1354 (medium): unixODBC

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1352 (low): sox

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1351 (medium): samba

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1350 (medium): libjpeg-turbo

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1348 (medium): fence-agents

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1347 (important): dovecot

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1346 (medium): dhcp

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1345 (low): compat-libtiff3

November 01, 2019

ALAS-2019-1344 (critical): php

October 30, 2019

ALAS-2019-1343 (medium): sssd

October 30, 2019

ALAS-2019-1342 (important): mod_http2

October 30, 2019

ALAS-2019-1341 (medium): httpd

October 24, 2019

ALAS-2019-1340 (medium): curl

October 24, 2019

ALAS-2019-1339 (low): exiv2

October 24, 2019

ALAS-2019-1337 (low): elfutils

October 24, 2019

ALAS-2019-1336 (medium): libcgroup

October 24, 2019

ALAS-2019-1335 (medium): golang

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1334 (low): python-requests

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1333 (medium): procps-ng

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1332 (medium): poppler

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1331 (medium): polkit

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1330 (medium): perl-Archive-Tar

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1329 (medium): mod_auth_openidc

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1328 (medium): mercurial

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1327 (medium): libtiff

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1325 (medium): libarchive

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1324 (low): keycloak-httpd-client-install

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1323 (medium): keepalived

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1322 (medium): http-parser

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1321 (low): exempi

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1320 (low): blktrace

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1319 (low): advancecomp

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1318 (important): SDL2

November 07, 2019

ALAS-2019-1317 (important): patch

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1293 (important): kernel

October 23, 2019

ALAS-2019-1281 (medium): kernel

 

AWS Online Tech Talks:

AWS Online Tech Talks Website | View Past Webinar Recordings

Date

Topic

Level

Nov 18, 2019 9:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

Getting Started with Migrating Data Online from Redis on Amazon EC2 to Fully-Managed Amazon ElastiCache

Advanced

Nov 18, 2019 11:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

Introduction to Seller Private Offers

Foundational

Nov 18, 2019 1:00 PM Pacific (1hr)

Deploying Cost-Effective Deep Learning Inference

Intermediate

Nov 19, 2019 9:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

Building Applications with Amazon QLDB, a First-of-Its-Kind Ledger Database

Advanced

Nov 19, 2019 11:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

AWS Container Logging Deep Dive: FireLens, Fluentd, and Fluent Bit

Advanced

Nov 19, 2019 1:00 PM Pacific (1hr)

Automated Performance Regression Detection in the AWS SDK for Java 2.0

Intermediate

Nov 20, 2019 9:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

Combining All AWS Analytics Services Around a Data Lake

Advanced

Nov 20, 2019 11:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

Driving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Across Your Industrial Facilities

Advanced

Nov 20, 2019 1:00 PM Pacific (1hr)

How to Get Hands-On Project Help Through AWS IQ

Foundational

Nov 21, 2019 9:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

How to Detect and Mitigate Guardrail Violations with AWS Control Tower

Advanced

Nov 21, 2019 11:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

Bringing AI/ML to Your Mobile and Web Apps

Intermediate

Nov 21, 2019 1:00 PM Pacific (1hr)

Scale Permissions Management in AWS Using Attribute-Based Access Control

Intermediate

Nov 22, 2019 9:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

Deploy Managed Databases On Premises with Amazon RDS on VMware

Advanced

Nov 22, 2019 11:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

What's New with AWS Storage

Intermediate

Nov 22, 2019 1:00 PM Pacific (1hr)

Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning with Amazon SageMaker

Advanced

Nov 25, 2019 9:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

How to Build a Compelling Migration Business Case Using TSO Logic

Advanced

Nov 25, 2019 11:00 AM Pacific (1hr)

From Simulation to Reality: Building an Autonomous Robot Arm with AWS Robomaker

Advanced

Nov 25, 2019 1:00 PM Pacific (1hr)

Configuring and Managing Amazon S3 Replication

Advanced

 

New York City AWS Loft Events:

Date

Event

November 19, 2019

Ellis Accelerator Fall 2019 Demo Day

November 20, 2019

AI/ML Bootcamp: Smart Applications

November 21, 2019

AI/ML Bootcamp: Build, Train, and Deploy

December 03, 2019

re:Invent 2019 @ the Loft

December 04, 2019

re:Invent 2019 @ the Loft

December 05, 2019

re:Invent 2019 @ the Loft

December 09, 2019

Deep Learning Meetup

December 11, 2019

AWS GameDay

December 12, 2019

Amazon Redshift Day

December 13, 2019

Management & Operations Day

December 16, 2019

AWS Amplify Week: Day One

December 17, 2019

AWS Amplify Week: Day Two

December 18, 2019

AWS Amplify Week: Day Three

 

San Francisco AWS Loft Events:

Date

Event

November 18, 2019

AI/ML Boot Camp

November 19, 2019

AI/ML Boot Camp

November 20, 2019

Startup Talk: Mobile Growth Meetup

November 21, 2019

Founder Journeys: #HowSheWorks

December 9, 2019

AWS What’s Next – AI/ML Lunch & Learn

December 10, 2019

AWS Amplify Week: Day One

December 11, 2019

AWS Amplify Week: Day Two

December 12, 2019

AWS Amplify Week: Day Three

Other AWS Events:

Date

Type

Event

Level

November 20, 2019

AWS COMMUNITY DAYS

AWS Community Day Kanazawa

All levels

November 28, 2019

AWS Transformation Day

AWS Transformation Day Milan

All levels

December 02 - 06, 2019

re:Invent

AWS re:Invent 2019

All levels

December 11, 2019

AWS COMMUNITY DAYS

AWS Community Day Tel Aviv

All levels

December 17, 2019

AWS Security Roadshow

AWS Security Roadshow Tel Aviv

All levels

January 07 - 10, 2020

Industry Events

CES 2020

All levels

January 12 - 14, 2020

Industry Events

NRF 2020: National Retail Federation

All levels

January 28 - 30, 2020

Industry Events

DistribuTECH 2020

All levels

January 31, 2020

AWS COMMUNITY DAYS

AWS Community Day Nordics

All levels

 

Latest AWS YouTube Channel Videos:

Date

Video

November 18, 2019

Tata Global Beverages: How a Global CPG Enterprise Built a Secure Foundation for SAP

November 18, 2019

How do I create an Amazon Route 53 Health Check?

November 18, 2019

AWS ジャパン 公共部門チーム(パブリック セクター)のご紹介 / Meet our Public Sector Team at AWS Japan

November 18, 2019

Come Build with AWS Indonesia

November 15, 2019

AWS CloudTrail: Simplify Security Analysis, Resource Change Tracking, and Troubleshooting

November 15, 2019

The Expanding AWS and Salesforce Global Alliance

November 15, 2019

AWS re:Invent 2019 – How to re:Invent – Episode 13: We Power Tech

November 15, 2019

SAP in the Cloud - Considerations for Enterprise Executives

November 15, 2019

Cyxetera: How to Enable Secure Zero Trust Access to AWS Resources & Hybrid Architectures

November 15, 2019

ZS Associates: Intelligent Process Automation Using AWS AI Services

November 15, 2019

Producer Perspective Panel

November 15, 2019

Impact of the Cloud Panel

November 14, 2019

Introduction to Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

November 14, 2019

Creating Apocalyptic VFX for Good Omens