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"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.\nThe News\nThe shameless plug\nArjen Without Sleep\nFinally in Sydney\nAWS Graviton2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong) regions, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances now available in EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) regions\nAmazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney)\nAWS Direct Connect Announces Native 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections at Select Locations\nServerless\nAWS Lambda now supports Node.js 14\nAnnouncing General Availability of Amplify Flutter, with new data and authentication support\nContainers\nAWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS authentication\nAmazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers\nIntroducing OIDC identity provider authentication for Amazon EKS | Containers\nAmazon EKS and EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.19\nAWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas to 1000\nAWS Config now supports Amazon container services\nEC2 &amp; VPC\nIntroducing Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn Bare Metal Instances\nAmazon Elastic File System triples read throughput\nAWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for VPC outputs\nAWS Backup Events and Metrics now available in Amazon CloudWatch\nAmazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now customize reverse DNS for their Elastic IP addresses\nApplication Load Balancer now supports Application Cookie Stickiness\nAmazon VPC Traffic Mirroring is now supported on select non-Nitro instance types\nScheduled Actions of Application Auto Scaling now support Local Time Zone\nAccess Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 Mac instances running macOS Big Sur\nAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling now shows scaling history for deleted groups\nDev &amp; Ops\nAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint\nInsights is now generally available for AWS X-Ray\nAWS Cloud9 launches visual source control integration for Git\nAssign a Delegated Administrator to manage AWS CloudFormation StackSets across your AWS Organization\nAWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton2\nSecurity\nAmazon GuardDuty introduces machine learning domain reputation model to expand threat detection and improve accuracy\nAmazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities including support for cross-account sensitive data discovery, scanning by Amazon S3 object prefix, improved pre-scan cost estimation, and added location detail in findings\nIntroducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSM\nAWS WAF adds support for JSON parsing and inspection\nSupport for KMS encryption on S3 buckets used by AWS Config\nData Storage &amp; Processing\nAmazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink\nIntroducing Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts\nYou now can use PartiQL with DynamoDB local to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB\nAmazon Timestream now offers cross table queries, query execution statistics, and more\nAmazon Aurora Global Database supports managed planned failover\nManaged planned failovers with Amazon Aurora Global Database | AWS Database Blog\nAmazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB support replication filtering\nAmazon S3 on Outposts adds a smaller storage tier\nAmazon Redshift Query Editor now supports clusters with enhanced VPC routing, longer query run times, and all node types\nAmazon RDS Publishes New Events for Multi-AZ Deployments\nAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Always On Availability Groups for Standard Edition\nAmazon Elasticsearch Service now supports rollups, reducing storage costs for extended retention\nAmazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 13\nAI &amp; ML\nNow create Amazon SageMaker Studio presigned URL with custom expiration time\nAWS DeepComposer launches Transformer Notebook on GitHub\nAutomate quality inspection with Amazon Lookout for Vision — now generally available\nOther cool stuff\nIntroducing Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle\nAmazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics\nUpdate content of inbound and outbound emails using AWS Lambda in Amazon WorkMail\nAWS Control Tower now provides region selection\nThe Nanos\nAWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new regions\nAmazon Pinpoint now supports 10DLC and toll-free numbers\nAmazon SNS now supports 1-minute CloudWatch metrics\nSponsors\nGold Sponsor Innablr\nSilver Sponsors\nAC3\nCMD Solutions\nDoIT International\n"
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