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. 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.