Cloud Infrastructure Community Program

[Bob Flynn <>]

Kevin’s updates from last week. What can I say, it was a busy week.

 

~Bob @ I2

(he/him/his)

 

 

From: Murakoshi, Kevin <>
Date: Monday, November 11, 2024 at 19:08
Subject: FW: AWS Roadmap Items of Interest

Fun fact of the week:

The human brain, with its intricate network of neurons and synapses, is capable of generating approximately 23 watts of power when awake.

Source:   https://facts.net/science/24-great-fun-facts-medical/

--------------------------

Hello Team!

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

Follow the AWS Blog, What's New from Amazon Web Services, and AWS Podcasts for up-to-date news and information.

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

 

Launch recap from last week (47 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Product	Details	Date
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock now available in the Europe (Zurich) Regions	November 07, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku model now available in Amazon Bedrock	November 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management is now generally available	November 07, 2024
Amazon CloudFront	Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF	November 06, 2024
Amazon CloudWatch	Configure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestions	November 07, 2024
Amazon DataZone	Amazon DataZone now supports meaning-based Semantic search	November 08, 2024
Amazon DataZone	Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription fee	November 08, 2024
Amazon DataZone	Amazon DataZone Achieves HITRUST Certification	November 06, 2024
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in South America (Sao Paulo) Region	November 07, 2024
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region	November 06, 2024
Amazon EC2	AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2025 images on Amazon EC2	November 06, 2024
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland)	November 06, 2024
Amazon EC2	EC2 Auto Scaling introduces provisioning control on strict availability zone balance	November 08, 2024
Amazon ECS	AWS introduces service versioning and deployment history for Amazon ECS services	November 07, 2024
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose	Amazon Data Firehose support for delivering data into Apache Iceberg tables is available in additional AWS Regions	November 06, 2024
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams	New Kinesis Client Library 3.0 reduces stream processing compute costs by up to 33%	November 06, 2024
Amazon Location Service	Amazon Location Service launches Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps	November 08, 2024
Amazon MSK	Express brokers for Amazon MSK is now generally available	November 07, 2024
Amazon MSK	Amazon MSK now supports vector embedding generation using Amazon Bedrock	November 06, 2024
Amazon OpenSearch Service	Amazon OpenSearch Service launches next-gen UI for enhanced data exploration and collaboration	November 07, 2024
Amazon OpenSearch Service	Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Extended Support for engine versions	November 07, 2024
Amazon Polly	Six new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly	November 06, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Business adds simplified setup and new web app experience	November 04, 2024
Amazon QuickSight	Amazon QuickSight now supports Client Credentials OAuth for Snowflake through API/CLI	November 08, 2024
Amazon QuickSight	Amazon QuickSight now supports Client Credentials OAuth for Starburst through API/CLI	November 08, 2024
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2024 Release Update	November 07, 2024
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports minor versions in October 2024	November 07, 2024
Amazon Redshift	Amazon Redshift Serverless higher base capacity of 1024 RPUs is now available in additional AWS regions	November 08, 2024
Amazon Redshift	Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is generally available for RA3 clusters in 3 additional AWS regions	November 06, 2024
Amazon S3	Amazon S3 Access Grants is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region	November 06, 2024
Amazon SES	Amazon SES adds inline template support to send email APIs	November 04, 2024
Amazon SNS	Amazon SNS delivers to Amazon Data Firehose endpoints in six new regions	November 08, 2024
Amazon SNS	Amazon SNS delivers to Amazon Data Firehose endpoints in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	November 08, 2024
Amazon SNS	Amazon SNS supports message archiving and replay for FIFO topics in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	November 07, 2024
Amazon Verified Permissions	Amazon Verified Permissions launches new API to get multiple policies	November 07, 2024
AWS Application Discovery Service	Network connections is now discoverable with AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector	November 08, 2024
AWS Clean Rooms	AWS Clean Rooms ML supports privacy-enhanced model training and inference	November 07, 2024
AWS CodeBuild	AWS CodeBuild now supports additional compute types for reserved capacity	November 06, 2024
AWS CodePipeline	AWS CodePipeline open source starter templates for simplified getting started experience	November 08, 2024
AWS Firewall Manager	AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region	November 08, 2024
AWS HealthImaging	Announcing enhanced support for medical imaging data with lossy compression in AWS HealthImaging	November 04, 2024
AWS IAM	AWS IAM now supports PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions	November 08, 2024
AWS Lambda	AWS Lambda announces JSON logging support for .NET managed runtime	November 07, 2024
AWS Mainframe Modernization	AWS Mainframe Modernization achieves FedRAMP Moderate and SOC compliance	November 07, 2024
AWS Partner Central	Announcing an improved self-guided experience for AWS Partner Central	November 06, 2024
AWS Security Hub	AWS Security Hub launches 7 new security controls	November 06, 2024
AWS Well-Architected Tool	AWS Well-Architected adds enhanced implementation guidance	November 06, 2024

 

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date	Item
November 08, 2024	Announcing new APIs for Amazon Location Service Routes, Places, and Maps
November 07, 2024	Introducing Express brokers for Amazon MSK to deliver high throughput and faster scaling for your Kafka clusters
November 06, 2024	Introducing the last cohort of AWS Heroes this year – November 2024
November 04, 2024	AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Redshift, Amazon CloudWatch, and more (Nov 4, 2024)

 

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date	Item
November 11, 2024	Maximize your cloud security experience at AWS re:Invent 2024: A comprehensive guide to security sessions
November 05, 2024	Amazon Inspector suppression rules best practices for AWS Organizations
November 05, 2024	Implement effective data authorization mechanisms to secure your data used in generative AI applications
November 04, 2024	Unauthorized tactic spotlight: Initial access through a third-party identity provider

 

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date	Item
November 06, 2024	Announcing updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework guidance
November 06, 2024	Channel deflection from voice to chat using Amazon Connect
November 05, 2024	Let’s Architect! Modern data architectures

 

Security Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
November 09, 2024	Issue with data.all (Multiple CVEs)
October 21, 2024	CVE-2024-10125 - missing JWT issuer and signer validation in aws-alb-identity-aspnetcore
October 21, 2024	CVE-2024-8901 - missing JWT issuer and signer validation in aws-alb-route-directive-adapter-for-istio

 

Amazon Linux 2023 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
October 25, 2024	ALAS-2024-755 (important): kernel
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-740 (important): python3.11-setuptools
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-741 (medium): poppler
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-742 (important): libarchive
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-743 (important): ruby3.2
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-744 (important): kernel
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-745 (important): flatpak
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-746 (medium): python-twisted
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-747 (medium): python-urllib3
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-748 (important): microcode_ctl
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-751 (medium): java-21-amazon-corretto
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-752 (medium): java-17-amazon-corretto
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-753 (medium): java-11-amazon-corretto
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-754 (medium): java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto

 

Amazon Linux 2 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2656 (medium): cups-filters
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2657 (medium): pcp
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2658 (medium): kernel
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2659 (important): qt5-qt3d
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2660 (important): qt5-qtx11extras
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2661 (important): qt5-qtwebsockets
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2662 (important): qt5-qtwebchannel
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2663 (important): qt5-qtsvg
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2664 (important): qt5-qtcanvas3d
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2665 (important): qt5-qtserialport
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2666 (important): qt5-qtsensors
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2667 (important): qt5-qtscript
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2668 (important): qt5-qtquickcontrols
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2669 (important): qt5-qtmultimedia
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2670 (important): qt5-qtlocation
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2671 (important): qt5-qtimageformats
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2672 (important): qt5-qtgraphicaleffects
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2673 (important): qt5-qtconnectivity
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2674 (important): qt5-qtxmlpatterns
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2675 (important): qt5
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2676 (important): qt5-qtdeclarative
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2677 (important): qt5-qttools
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2678 (important): qt5-qtbase
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2679 (medium): python-pip
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2680 (medium): python-idna
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2681 (important): libgsf
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2682 (important): microcode_ctl
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2683 (medium): java-17-amazon-corretto
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2684 (medium): java-11-amazon-corretto
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2685 (low): gdb
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2686 (medium): python
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2687 (medium): python3
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2688 (medium): libdwarf
October 24, 2024	ALAS-2024-2689 (medium): zziplib
October 24, 2024	ALASLIVEPATCH-2024-192 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.223-212.873
October 24, 2024	ALASLIVEPATCH-2024-193 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.224-212.876
October 24, 2024	ALASLIVEPATCH-2024-194 (important): kernel-livepatch-5.10.223-211.872
October 24, 2024	ALASKERNEL-5.10-2024-072 (important): kernel
October 24, 2024	ALASKERNEL-5.15-2024-056 (important): kernel
October 24, 2024	ALASKERNEL-5.4-2024-087 (important): kernel
October 24, 2024	ALASCORRETTO8-2024-014 (medium): java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto
October 24, 2024	ALASFIREFOX-2024-031 (important): firefox
October 24, 2024	ALASPYTHON3.8-2024-014 (medium): python38

 

Amazon Linux Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
November 09, 2024	ALAS-2024-1951 (medium): kernel
October 28, 2024	ALAS-2024-1950 (important): microcode_ctl

 

AWS Online Tech Talks:

AWS Online Tech Talks Website | View Past Webinar Recordings

Date	Topic	Level
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Opensource Table Formats with AWS Glue and Amazon EMR	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Build Apache Spark Apps and Integrate Them with Redshift	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Building a personalization solution just got easier with Amazon Personalize	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Preparing data at scale with Amazon SageMaker notebooks	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Building a comprehensive security solution with AWS Security services	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	ML-powered Predictive Maintenance for Industrial Operations	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Getting Started with ElastiCache for Redis Performance & Cost Optimization	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Enabling Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Simplify Data Discovery with Amazon Redshift Query Editor	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building GenAI Experiences on AWS Ep 2	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Designing a DR strategy on Amazon RDS for SQL Server	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	How to: Porting Advisor For Graviton	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) 5.0 features	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Protect Amazon RDS for Oracle with managed Oracle Data Guard switchover	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Ingest, Manage, and Analyze Data with Central Governance	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB Observability and Monitoring	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Serverless Framework with Amazon CodeCatalyst	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Easily Integrate Analytics into your apps using Amazon QuickSight	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Event Detection with Amazon MSK and Kinesis Data Analytics	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Improve Search Relevance with Amazon OpenSearch Service	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Detect Bias in ML Data, Models & Explain Predictions	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Centralize Data Lake Security Management with AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting started with Amazon Aurora Global Database	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Accelerate cloud migration and app modernization with AWS Identity Services	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Automatically Provision and Scale OpenSearch with AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Bring intelligent insights to your industrial operations with Amazon Monitron	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Break down barriers to knowledge with Amazon Kendra	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Bear Conservation with ML, Serverless and Citizen Science	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Increase accuracy with Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation Version 6	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Harnessing Low-code/No-Code Machine Learning on AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Enhanced threat detection for Amazon EKS with Amazon GuardDuty	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Carbyne delivers cloud native 9-1-1 call management using AWS AI services	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Fully Managed SaaS Data Integrations with Amazon AppFlow	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS for virtually every application	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Don’t Create More Data Silos! Use CDC and Data Streaming	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Multiple approaches for protecting data in Amazon DynamoDB	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Threat detection for Amazon Aurora databases with Amazon GuardDuty	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Database performance monitoring and tuning with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Deliver low latency multiplayer games with AWS edge infrastructure	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Leveraging Rust for MLOps with the Amazon Sagemaker	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Deep Dive: PyTorch 2.0 on Graviton	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Accelerating modern app development by externalizing fine-grained authorization	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Easily upload and manage Amazon S3 files in a Next.js web app with AWS Amplify	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Accelerated ETL for Amazon Redshift with AWS Glue	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building GenAI Experiences on Amazon SageMaker Ep 1	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building a Gen AI Comic Video Generator on Amazon SageMaker	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Get Answers From Data in Seconds with Amazon QuickSight Q	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Introducing Governed Analytics with Amazon DataZone	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: A journey from beginner to advanced ML builder with SageMaker Studio Lab	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Enable cross-team, federated GraphQL APIs with AWS AppSync Merged APIs	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Serverless Data Streaming Workloads with Amazon Kinesis	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	An introduction to performance measurement, analysis and optimisation on AWS EC2 Graviton-based instances	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Why geospatial ML?	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Managing ML experiments	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Recent enhancements in Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Under the Hood with AWS Compute	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	CCI Real-time Call Analytics & Agent Assist solutions	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Effortless migration - Is your app already Graviton-ready?	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Best practices for building interactive applications with AWS Lambda	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	What's new in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL?	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Accelerating SQL Server database modernization with Babelfish	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Reducing the costs of your openCypher applications	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Fraud prevention and Bot control with AWS WAF	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Managing ML Workflows In Production with Amazon SageMaker	Level 300 - Advanced

 

AWS Events:

Date	Type	Event	Level
November 12, 2024	Virtual Event	Vonage and AWS Dev Day 2024 - EMEA	All levels
November 12, 2024	Virtual Event	Vonage and AWS Dev Day 2024 - USA	All levels
November 12, 2024	In-person Event	The Art of Play: A Masterclass on Game Design & Social Hour	All levels
November 12, 2024	In-person Events	Healthcare & Life Sciences Customer Meetup	N/A
November 13 - 15, 2024	In-person Event	Join AWS from November 13-15 at Booth F1 in Salt Lake City for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024! !	Level 300
November 13, 2024	Virtual Event	Hands on Workshop-Amazon Connect Contact Lens	Level 200
November 14, 2024	In-person Event	HERE Transportation and Logistics Tech Day Santa Clara	All levels
November 16, 2024	In-person Event	AWS Student Community Day 2024 Mexico	All levels
November 19, 2024	Virtual Event	Pariveda Present: Enhancing Customer 360 programs by leveraging AWS and Dremio	All levels
November 20, 2024	Virtual Event	Hands on Workshop-Amazon Q for Connect	Level 200
December 02, 2024	In-person Event	Kick Off re:Invent Week With Perficient	All levels
December 03, 2024	In-person Event	AI-powered modernization panel at re:Invent 2024	All levels
December 03, 2024	In-person Event	Happy Hour at Topgolf Las Vegas	All levels
December 04, 2024	In-person Event	Modernization-as-a-service panel at re:Invent 2024	All levels

 

Latest AWS YouTube Channel Videos:

Date	Video
November 09, 2024	Qonqord breaks the monolith and double its growth (Business) - Cloud Adventures
November 09, 2024	Qonqord breaks the monolith and double its growth (Technical) - Cloud Adventures
November 08, 2024	Conversations with Security Leaders - Season 3 | Amazon Web Services
November 08, 2024	How AWS customers running VMs on ROSA can add advanced container functions | Amazon Web Services
November 08, 2024	Introducing Amazon S3 | Amazon Web Services
November 08, 2024	Back to Basics: Bulk Data Storage
November 07, 2024	SoftServe and AWS use Generative AI to Help Customers Solve Business Issues | Amazon Web Services
November 07, 2024	AWS & Protera - Get RISE with SAP Ready! | Amazon Web Services
November 07, 2024	AWS for Software Companies, Spotlight Interview, Mckinsey & Co | Amazon Web Services
November 07, 2024	AWS for Software Companies, Spotlight Interview, DataScan Technologies LLC | Amazon Web Services
November 07, 2024	AWS for Software Companies, Spotlight Interview, Cribl | Amazon Web Services
November 07, 2024	Why can't I detach or delete an elastic network interface that Lambda created?
November 06, 2024	How Caylent Accelerates MSSQL Database Modernization with Generative AI | Amazon Web Services
November 06, 2024	Secure IoT Drives Smart Home Solutions: Haier Europe on AWS | Amazon Web Services
November 05, 2024	BrainBox AI revolutionizes facilities management with Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

 

AWS re:Post Live

Upcoming Episodes

Date	Name	Guest(s)
2024-11-11	Preparing for Peak Season Retail Events with AWS Countdown Premium	Matt Barbieri, Ross Dyer & Jatinder Singh
2024-11-18	Migrating Messaging Workloads to AWS	Paras Jain, Vinodh Kannan Sadayamuthu & Daisy Daivasgaya

 

AWS Tech Tales:

Upcoming Episodes

Date	Name	Featured Services
2024-11-07	The Tale Of Amazon Connect Configuration	Connect
2024-11-14	The Tale Of Amazon Connect Call Ins	Connect, Transcribe
2024-11-21	AWS Tech Tales Season Finale!	Quicksight, Amazon Q, and more!