What’s New in November and at re:Invent 2021 Melbourne AWS User Group

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