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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.

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.
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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.