Episode 72 - May / June Tech Round-up

In this Episode of AWS TechChat, Shane and Pete perform a tech round up from May through to June of 2020 There is now an ability to provide Direct Connect testing, You can noow use the Resiliency Toolkit to test the resiliency of their Direct Connect connections. The Fail over testing feature enables customers to test resiliency by disabling one or more Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions using the AWS Management Console, Command Line Interface, or AWS Direct Connect API. Shield Advanced now allows proactive engagement from the DDoS Response Team (DRT) when a DDoS event is detected. When you turn on proactive engagement, the DRT will directly contact you if an Amazon Route 53 health check associated with your protected resource becomes unhealthy during an event that's detected by Shield Advanced. Amazon Redshift now delivers better cold query performance by significantly improving compilation times Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database Supports Managed Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Tighten S3 permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of S3 actions Amazon MSK now supports Apache Kafka version upgrades We spoke about the AWS Transfer family and you can now use the source IP as an additional factor of authentication A raft pf Ec2 updates including the availability of the Graviton 2 based instances Finally Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now enables you to grow storage and to scale performance on your file systems