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.

This episode was recorded on 23 March 2023.

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Melbourne

• Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions
• AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions
• AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
• AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions
• AWS Step Functions Distributed Map is now available in more Regions
• Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad and Melbourne) Regions
• AWS License Manager Linux subscriptions expands region and administrator support
• Amazon EKS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
• Meet the Newest AWS Heroes – March 2023
• AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions
• AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
• AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
• AWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions

Sydney

• Amazon Connect Cases is now available in 5 additional regions
• Amazon EC2 C7g instances are now available in additional regions
• AWS App Runner is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) and AWS Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Discussed news items

• New – Visualize Your VPC Resources from Amazon VPC Creation Experience
• New Graviton3-Based General Purpose (m7g) and Memory-Optimized (r7g) Amazon EC2 Instances
• Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback
• Amazon Linux 2023, a Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Long-Term Support
• Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3, a high performance open source file client
• Announcing Consolidated Control Findings and a Consolidated Controls View for AWS Security Hub
• New – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users
• Announcing cross-account support for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
• AWS CloudShell now supports the modular variant of AWS Tools for PowerShell
• AWS Application Composer Now Generally Available – Visually Build Serverless Applications Quickly
• AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in 6 additional regions
• Announcing Favorites feature to organize AWS Systems Manager documents and runbooks
• Code scans for Lambda functions within Amazon Inspector now in preview
• AWS Step Functions adds integration for 35 services including EMR Serverless
• Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services
• Amazon Corretto 20 is now generally available
• AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces
• Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now support in-place operating system updates
• AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams
• AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs
• Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging
• Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
• Amazon S3 Encrypts New Objects By Default
• AWS Clean Rooms Now Generally Available — Collaborate with Your Partners without Sharing Raw Data

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