Simon takes you through lots of great new features and capabilities for customers, and also a special call out for listeners attending AWS re:Invent to get some AWS Podcast swag!


Shownotes with timestamps:

1:42 Compute
In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-milan-italy/
AWS GovCloud (US-East) Now Open - AWS News Blog | https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-govcloud-us-east-now-open/
Amazon EC2 now offers On-Demand Capacity Reservations | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/Amazon-EC2-now-offers-On-Demand-Capacity-Reservations/
Introducing Amazon EC2 Instances Featuring AMD EPYC Processors | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing_amazon_ec2_instances_featuring_amd_epyc_processors/
Amazon ECS-CLI Supports Private Registry Authentication | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-ecs-cli-supports-private-registry-authentication/
Amazon EKS now supports additional VPC CIDR blocks | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-eks-now-supports-additional-vpc-cidr-blocks/
AWS Serverless Application Model Supports Amazon API Gateway Authorizers | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-sam-supports-amazon-api-gateway-authorizers/

6:04 Cost Management
Introducing the New AWS Budgets Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/introducing-the-new-aws-budgets-console/
AWS now Supports SEPA Direct Debit Payments in Europe | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/aws-sepa-support/
Amazon API Gateway Announces Tiered Pricing | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/api-gateway-announces-tiered-pricing/
AWS IoT Core Improves the Ability to Ingest Large Amounts of Device Data at a Lower Cost | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/aws-iot-core-improves-ability-to-ingest-large-amounts-of-data/
Access Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations for All of Your Linked Accounts From a Central Location | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/central-location-for-accessing-ri-purchase-recommendations-for-all-accounts/
Monitor Your Amazon Elasticsearch Reserved Instance Utilization and Coverage Using AWS Budgets | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/monitor-your-amazon-elasticsearch-ri-using-aws-budgets/
Amazon EC2 Spot Console now Provides Access to Spot Savings Information | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/Amazon-EC2-Spot-Console-now-Provides-Access-to-Spot-Savings-Information/

10:15 Machine Learning
Amazon Translate now offers 113 new language pairs | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/amazon-translate-now-offers-113-new-language-pairs/
Amazon Polly Adds Italian and Castilian Spanish Voices, and Mexican Spanish Language Support | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-polly-adds-italian-and-castilian-spanish-voices-and-mexican-spanish-language-support/
Amazon Rekognition Announces More Accurate Object and Scene Detection, Can Now Locate Objects in Your Images | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/Amazon-rekognition-announces-more-accurate-object-and-scene-detection-can-now-locate-objects-in-your-images/
Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Pipe Mode for Datasets in CSV Format | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-pipe-mode-for-datasets-in-csv-form/
Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform Now Supports AWS KMS Based Encryption | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-batch-transform-now-supports-aws-kms-based-encr/
Now Clone a Hyperparameter Tuning Job through the Amazon SageMaker Console | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/now-clone-a-hyperparameter-tuning-job-through-the-amazon-sagemak0/
Amazon SageMaker Now Supports Apache MXNet 1.3 and TensorFlow 1.11 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-sagemaker-now-supports-apache-mxnet-1-3-and-t