This month have been a bit light on noticeable AWS release, but let’s review the monthly most interesting ones in my eyes.
As always you can find the full release at AWS Announcement page.
AWS Transcribe
Quite minor but still really cool: transcribe now support automatic language identification for multi-lingual medias. Not much to say, it’s really self explanatory, I think will could be really useful to some content creator who have part of their content in foreign languages.
Route 53
New feature for Route53, AWS DNS server, adds a new routing rule: it’s now possible to route DNS records based on the query IP Address.
Here again, really simple, I thinks this can be really helpful to reroute traffic coming from a specific ISP, let’s say known VPN sources, or specific datacenter to a specific endpoint.
Cognito
Cognito is AWS authentication service, and this new feature allows application to propagate user IP Address to the caller context when performing forwarding authentication request. This is especially useful when your application is not sending users to Cognito but instead forward the authentication request.
RDS
Back to one of the main services from AWS, relational database, here I saw 2 new feature that looks really important:
0 Downtime Upgrade for PostgreSQL
Updating you database is always a complex issue, as it means downtime for your application, even if with RDS Aurora Cluster the downtime usually is as small as 1 minute or less, this can still really impact your application. This new feature change how patch are applied to Aurora cluster creating a Zero Downtime patching process.
SNS Notification for RDS Event
Monitored RDS events can now notify to SNS this will allow to create a fanout scenario that will allow you to redirect such event easily to AWS Lambda, emails, SQS, etc…
This can be super useful to prepare disaster recovery or to trigger workflows on certain events, such a anticipate auto-scaling, invalidating cache, etc…
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