Q1 2023 Announcements Round Robin

Melbourne AWS User Group

For this episode, Arjen is joined by Jason and Matt to discuss the news from the first quarter of 2023. As that is a bit much, they decide to focus on the Melbourne region first and then pick some of their favourites round-robin style.

This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023.

You can find the user group here:

• Our website
• @[e-mail] on Mastodon
• @awsmelb on Twitter
• AWS User Group (Melbourne) on LinkedIn

Melbourne

• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions
• AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
• AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions
• AWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more Regions
• Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) Regions
• AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support
• Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
• Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023
• AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions
• AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
• AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
• AWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions

Sydney

• Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions
• Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions
• AWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Discussed news items

• New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience
• New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances
• Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback
• Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support
• Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client
• Announcing Consolidated Control Findings and a Consolidated Controls View for AWS Security Hub
• New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users
• Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
• AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell
• AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly
• AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
• Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks
• Code scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in preview
• AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless
• Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services
• Amazon Corretto 20 is now generally available
• AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces
• Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates
• AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams
• AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs
• Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging
• Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
• Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default
• AWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw Data

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