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For this very special episode, Arjen is joined by Dawn, Jason, and Matt to discuss our newly launched local region. So, of course, we take that opportunity to whinge about missing services and features while also trying to show that we’re actually really happy it’s here. And at the end we’ll take a brief excursion to the new Perth Local Zone as well.

After a long hiatus, we’re back with season 2 of our podcast! In this episode Arjen, Jason, and Matt discuss their favourite announcements of re:Invent 2022 and how much of this is quality of life improvements.

In this month’s episode Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from January 2022. Well, everything announced after re:Invent really, but that’s mostly from January. There are good announcements all over; from a new Console Home to unpronounceable instance types, but there is also some news around the podcast that’s either good or bad depending on how you interpret it.

Pull your podcast player out of instant retrieval, because we're discussing re:Invent 2021 as well as the weeks before it. Lots of announcements; big, small, weird, awesome, and anything in between. We had fun with this episode and hope you do too. Find us at melb.awsug.org.au or as @AWSMelb on Twitter. News Finally in Sydney AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the US East (Ohio), US West (San Francisco), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regions Serverless Introducing Amazon EMR Serverless in preview Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-Demand Announcing Amazon Redshift Serverless (Preview) Introducing Amazon MSK Serverless in public preview Introducing Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (preview) Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability Amazon AppStream 2.0 launches Elastic fleets, a serverless fleet type AWS Chatbot now supports management of AWS resources in Slack (Preview) Lambda AWS Lambda now supports partial batch response for SQS as an event source AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry AWS Lambda now supports mTLS Authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events Step Functions AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows now supports AWS PrivateLink Amplify Introducing AWS Amplify Studio AWS Amplify announces the ability to override Amplify-generated resources using CDK AWS Amplify announces the ability to add custom AWS resources to Amplify-created backends using CDK and CloudFormation AWS Amplify UI launches new Authenticator component for React, Angular, and Vue AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify backends as CDK stacks to integrate into CDK-based pipelines AWS Amplify expands its Notifications category to include in-app messaging (Developer Preview) AWS Amplify announces a redesigned, more extensible GraphQL Transformer for creating app backends quickly Containers Fargate Announcing AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors ECS Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling Amazon ECS-optimized AMI is now available as an open-source project Amazon ECS announces a new integration with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry EKS Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now Supports the Fluent Bit Kubernetes Filter Amazon EKS adds support for additional cluster configuration options using AWS CloudFormation Visualize all your Kubernetes clusters in one place with Amazon EKS Connector, now generally available AWS Karpenter v0.5 Now Generally Available AWS customers can now find, subscribe to, and deploy third-party applications that run in any Kubernetes environment from AWS Marketplace Other Amazon ECR announces pull through cache repositories AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images EC2 & VPC Instances New – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs | AWS News Blog Announcing new Amazon EC2 G5g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Introducing Amazon EC2 R6i instances Introducing two new Amazon EC2 bare metal instances Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support hot attach and detach of EBS volumes Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support macOS Monterey Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS Announcing preview of Amazon Linux 2022 Elastic Beanstalk supports AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instance types Announcing preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances Announcing new Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors Announcing new Amazon EC2 Im4gn and Is4gen instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Introducing the AWS Graviton Ready Program Introducing Amazon EC2 M6a instances AWS Compute Optimizer now offers enha

A lot of things happened in October, and we talked about them all in early November. In this episode Arjen, Guy, and JM discuss a whole bunch of cool things that were released and may be a bit harsh on everything Microsoft.

After a very long delay, our September 2021 episode finally drops. Recorded in early October Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss how September finally has a fair number of interesting announcements again and of course point out everything that wasn’t great as well.

July and August were very boring months for announcements, so Arjen, JM, and Guy decided to discuss them both in a single episode. They also decided to record before the month actually ended, which doesn’t really behoove them as they missed out on a couple of actually interesting announcements. So those will be discussed in our September episode.

The month of June was not the most exciting one when it comes to announcements, but Arjen, Guy, and Jean-Manuel still found some things to talk about. Although there were more diversions than usual.

Once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy discuss the latest and greatest announcements from AWS in this roundup of the news of May. Also once again, this was recorded 2 months before it went up, but luckily it's all still relevant. Even the comments about being in lockdown.

Setting a new record for delay in editing, you can finally listen to Arjen, JM, and Guy discuss the news from April 2021. This was recorded nearly two months before it was released.

Severely delayed once again, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy did discuss the news of March once again. An episode full of good names, bad names, and complaints about services while there was also plenty to love. So, a fairly typical month.

February was a slow month for AWS releases, but Arjen, JM, and Guy did their best to make it fun anyway. Except for those times where Arjen tried to convince everyone to fall asleep to his new podcast.

In this month's episode where we tell you what AWS released since re:Invent, Guy gets to talk a fair bit about IoT, JM just wants to remind everyone of various things, and Arjen suffers from some sleep deprivation.

re:Invent arrived, and with it came a lot of announcements. Some meh, some good, some great. In this episode Arjen, Jean-Manuel, Guy, and special guest star Rob will do their best to make sense of it. Or maybe they just make it more confusing? Who knows? Our brains can't really handle the number of announcements. Which is probably also why it took far too long to edit this episode.

Because re:Invent is just in a couple of days, Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take an earlier than usual look at the massive number of announcements in November. And to think, this episode was recorded on 20 November so everything announced after that will be discussed in the re:Invent episode.

Arjen, JM, and Guy talk about all the many things that were announced in October. But before that, they will first discuss exactly how badly Lex understands "a fair shake of the sauce bottle".

A bit later than planned, but Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy are back to talk about the AWS news from September 2020. This episode contains Arjen talking about what's wrong with the SSO APIs, Jean-Manuel showing off his Quantum computing knowledge, and Guy giving a sauce bottle a fair shake?

Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy once again take a close look at the new releases from the past month. And while they try to compare everything to EFS for Lambda, this month includes the introduction of a new award: The Nano The News Finally in Sydney Announcing the newest AWS Heroes – August 2020 | AWS News Blog Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Sydney, Tokyo) Regions Serverless Lambda AWS Lambda now provides IAM condition keys for VPC settings AWS Lambda now supports Go on Amazon Linux 2 AWS Lambda now supports Java 8 (Corretto) AWS Lambda now supports custom runtimes on Amazon Linux 2 AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka as an event source AWS AppSync releases Direct Lambda Resolvers for GraphQL APIs API Gateway Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs now supports wildcard custom domain names API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced observability via access logs Step Functions AWS Step Functions adds support for Amazon SageMaker Processing AWS Step Functions adds support for string manipulation, new comparison operators, and improved output processing Amplify Announcing Swift Combine support in Amplify iOS Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview Containers Fargate AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS now included in Compute Savings Plans Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems ECS Amazon Elastic Container Service launches more network metrics for containers using the EC2 launch type AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.3 focused on operations and configuration Amazon ECS now launches the Amazon ECS Optimized Inferentia AMI EKS Amazon EKS now supports UDP load balancing with Network Load Balancer Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes Preview Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2 Other AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration EC2 & VPC Amazon S3 Access Points now support the COPY API Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5ad instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports IPv6 Traffic AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports Internet Key Exchange (IKE) initiation AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability Dev & Ops CodeGuru Reviewer now has Full Repository Analysis Support EC2 Image Builder components can now be developed locally AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints Now manage a popular third party agent from AWS Systems Manager Distributor AWS Systems Manager Explorer now provides a multi-account summary of AWS Support cases AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support Security New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets | AWS News Blog Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On AWS IoT Device Defender adds audit finding suppression capability AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers Storage and Databases New EBS Volume Type (io2) – 100x Higher Durability and 10x More IOPS/GiB | AWS News Blog Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring

July was a busy month with many (small) releases, and even an announcement about re:Invent! So it's up to Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy to try to make sense of it all.

AWS had a number of big and small announcements in June again, and Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to talk about these. They'll cover it all from codeless programming tools to busting charts. The News Finally in Sydney ANZ Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru - now generally available  Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in nine additional countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East  Serverless AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now generally available Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection AWS Amplify Console now supports deploying and hosting web apps managed in monorepos Swift Lambda support (Apple supported through WWDC sessions) Amplify Console adds support for automatically creating and deleting custom sub-domains for every branch deployment Containers Amazon EKS now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances AWS App Mesh introduces timeout configuration support Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Delete Functionality Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes is now generally available EC2 & VPC AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing Now Available, Amazon EC2 C5a instances featuring 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances - GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh within Auto Scaling Groups ELB lifecycle events now available with Amazon ECS services registered with multiple target groups AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces .NET Core on Linux Platform Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables  Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available  Security AWS Config Supports 9 New Managed Rules AWS Shield Advanced now supports proactive response to events Amazon Aurora Snapshots can be managed via AWS Backup AWS Transfer Family enables Source IP as a factor for authorization AWS Certificate Manager Extends Automation of Certificate Issuance Via CloudFormation AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account data protection management and monitoring Dev & Ops Software Package Management with AWS CodeArtifact | AWS News Blog Announcing Amazon Honeycode Introducing AWS CloudFormation Guard (Preview) – a new open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance AWS CloudFormation Resource Import now supports CloudFormation Registry types EC2 Image Builder now supports connectivity through AWS PrivateLink AWS CodeCommit now supports Emoji Reactions to Comments AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type  Databases Amazon Aurora Global Database supports read replica write forwarding AWS Data Migration Service now supports copying graph data from relational sources to Amazon Neptune Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems Announcing storage controls for schemas in Amazon Redshift Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3 CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for SQL Server High Availability configurations Amazon RDS on VMware Adds Support for Read Replica Amazon Redshift materialized views support external tables Announcing Amazon Aurora Serverless with MySQL 5.7 compatibility AI & ML DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge Amazon SageMaker Components for Kubeflow Pipelines AWS DeepComposer adds a new generative AI algorithm that allows developers to generate music in the style of Bach Now Ins

Another month, another long list of AWS releases. And once again Arjen, Jean-Manuel, and Guy take a look at what's new and give their opinions, whether those are appreciated or not. This episode was recorded on 29 May, but unfortunately had some delays in editing. The News Finally in Sydney Announcing major enhancements to Amazon Macie, an 80%+ price reduction, and global region expansion Amazon Fraud Detector Preview is now available in Ohio, Ireland, Singapore and Sydney AWS Regions AWS Inter-Region Data Transfer (DTIR) Price Reduction | AWS News Blog Amazon RDS Data API and Amazon RDS Query Editor are available in additional regions Amazon RDS Proxy (Preview) Now Available in 8 Additional AWS Regions Serverless Amazon EventBridge schema registry is now generally available AWS Step Functions now supports AWS CodeBuild service integration and CodePipeline supports invoking Step Functions with a new action type Control your email flows in Amazon WorkMail using AWS Lambda AWS SAM adds support for AWS Step Functions Announcing General Availability of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android, with new authentication, data, and AI/ML support Containers Amazon EKS Improves Cluster Creation and Management in the AWS Console Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.16 ECR now supports Manifest Lists for multi-architecture images Amazon CloudWatch now monitors Prometheus metrics - Now in Beta Introducing the CDK for Kubernetes, a New Software Development Framework and Open Source Project for Defining Kubernetes Applications Using Code AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Environment files for the EC2 launch type AWS Fargate now encrypts data stored on ephemeral storage by default in platform version 1.4 EC2 & VPC Amazon SES now offers VPC Endpoint support for SMTP Endpoints AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Node.js, PHP, Go, and Ruby Platforms Announcing Route Analyzer in AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager AWS License Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports Bring Your Own IPv6 Addresses (BYOIPv6) Add enriched metadata to Amazon VPC flow logs published to CloudWatch Logs and S3 Amazon EC2 now supports aliases for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) Amazon EC2 M6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available Enhanced monitoring capabilities for AWS Direct Connect Amazon EFS Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99% Security AWS Single Sign-On supports zero-downtime external IdP certificate rotation AWS Artifact service launches new user interface Introducing the Amazon EKS Best Practices Guide for Security AWS Client VPN now supports Federated Authentication via SAML 2.0 AWS Backup supports new options for customizing backup selections Manage access to AWS centrally for Okta users with AWS Single Sign-On Now deploy AWS Config rules and conformance packs across an organization from a delegated member account Network Load Balancer now supports TLS ALPN Policies Dev & Ops Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer launches new, more cost-effective pricing model Amazon CodeGuru Profiler announces availability of hourly recommendation reports to remediate issues quickly Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces pull request dashboard AWS Cloud9 is now available with a new default theme Amazon CodeGuru announces -javaagent switch to start Profiler Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces support for Bitbucket repositories and enhancements AWS CodeBuild Test Reporting is now Generally Available AWS Systems Manager now supports resource groups as targets for State Manager Databases NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB adds support for Linux Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports SQL-level metrics on Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility Neptune Streams feature is now available outside of lab mode AWS Database Migration Service Now Supports Expression-Based Data Transformations Amazon RD

A month passed before we could blink, and once again Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy to discuss the highlights of the April announcements. Co-starring interrupted chatbots and terrifying music. The News Finally in Sydney Sellers, consulting partners, and data providers from Australia and New Zealand now available in AWS Marketplace and AWS Data Exchange AWS Ground Station is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in Australia AWS Transit Gateway now Supports Inter-Region Peering in 11 additional regions EKS Adds Fargate Support in Frankfurt, Oregon, Singapore, and Sydney AWS Regions Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions Serverless Amazon RDS Proxy with PostgreSQL Compatibility (Preview) (not in Sydney) Exporting HTTP APIs as OpenAPI 3.0 Now Supported by Amazon API Gateway AWS Lambda now supports .NET Core 3.1 The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports AWS Step Functions Amplify CLI adds support for additional Lambda runtimes (Java, Go, .NET and Python) and Lambda cron jobs AWS X-Ray SDK for Go is now generally available Containers Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate support for Amazon EFS File Systems now generally available AWS App Mesh adds support to connect services deployed in multiple AWS accounts into a shared mesh Amazon EKS Now Supports Service-Linked Roles Amazon EKS managed node groups allow fully private cluster networking Databases Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available Amazon RDS Now Supports PostgreSQL 12 Amazon RDS now supports MariaDB 10.4 AWS Database Migration Service now supports replicating data to Apache Kafka streaming platform (Keyspaces) Amazon Neptune now supports the T3.medium instance type Dev & Ops AWS Chatbot Now Generally Available Receive Notifications for AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline in Slack EC2 Image Builder adds support for Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, and SLES Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now generally available Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports monitoring private endpoints in a VPC Security Amazon Detective is now generally available Review and remediate unintended access allowed on your AWS resources from outside your AWS organization Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now supports Sign in with Apple Track changes to secrets stored in AWS Secrets Manager using AWS Config and AWS Config Rules AWS Security Hub launches the Foundational Security Best Practices standard VPC & EC2 Amazon Elastic File System announces 400% increase in read operations for General Purpose mode file systems AWS Elastic Beanstalk Launches support for AWS PrivateLink AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds API support for listing platform branches AWS Elastic Beanstalk Announces General Availability of Amazon Linux 2 Based Docker, Corretto, and Python Platforms New AWS Elastic Beanstalk console now available AI & ML AWS DeepComposer is now generally available Introducing Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) for human reviews of machine learning predictions Introducing TorchServe: a PyTorch model serving framework Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports batch transcription of medical audio files Amazon Personalize now provides scores for recommended items Other Cool Stuff You can now use AWS Control Tower to set up new multi-account AWS environments in AWS Organizations Announcing the new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region AWS Canada (Central) Region Adds Third Availability Zone Introducing AWS Cost Categories Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is now generally available Introducing the AWS Transfer Family with fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP Announcing general availability of Amazon Pinpoint Custom Channels Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for streaming data delivery to an Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020 Amazon Connect adds custom terminating keypress for DTMF Amazon Connect n

In our first episode we go through an extended version of our usual What's New segment of the podcast. For this, Arjen is joined by Jean-Manuel and Guy.