Amazon EC2 high memory U7i Instances – These instances with up to 32 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). These high memory instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more, visit Jeff’s blog post.

New Amazon Connect analytics data lake – You can use a single source for contact center data including contact records, agent performance, Contact Lens insights, and more — eliminating the need to build and maintain complex data pipelines. Your organization can create your own custom reports using Amazon Connect data or combine data queried from third-party sources. To learn more, visit Donnie’s blog post.

Amazon Bedrock Converse API – This API provides developers a consistent way to invoke Amazon Bedrock models removing the complexity to adjust for model-specific differences such as inference parameters. With this API, you can write a code once and use it seamlessly with different models in Amazon Bedrock. To learn more, visit Dennis’s blog post to get started.

This month, we launched 19 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including two new AWS Digital Classroom courses (Digital Classroom – Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS and Digital Classroom – Security Engineering on AWS), nine new digital courses, two new AWS Partner courses (both include an Accreditation Badge to be awarded upon successful completion of the final assessment), and localized versions (Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese) of Exam Prep ...

This was a busy week for Amazon Bedrock with many new features! Using GitHub Actions with AWS CodeBuild is much easier. Also, Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst can now manage more complex issues...

We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace–where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software in natural language...

AWS Summits continue to rock the world, with events taking place in various locations around the globe. AWS Summit London (April 24) is the last one in April, and there are nine more in May, including AWS Summit Berlin (May 15–16), AWS Summit Los Angeles (May 22), and AWS Summit Dubai (May 29). Join us to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS!

The Exam AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator is part of the Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate certification. This exam assesses your capability in several technical tasks including managing Azure identities and governance, implementing and managing storage, deploying and managing Azure compute resources, implementing and managing virtual networking, and monitoring and maintaining Azure resources. The English version of the exam was updated on October 26, 2023, to include the latest skills and knowledge required​​.

AWS Community Days conferences are in full swing with AWS communities around the globe. The AWS Community Day Poland was hosted last week with more than 600 cloud enthusiasts in attendance. Community speakers Agnieszka Biernacka, Krzysztof Kąkol, and more, presented talks which captivated the audience and resulted in vibrant discussions throughout the day. My teammate, Wojtek Gawroński, was at the event and he’s already looking forward to attending again next year!

Google Cloud Next made a big splash in Las Vegas this week! From our opening keynote showcasing incredible customer momentum to exciting product announcements, we covered how AI is transforming the way that companies work. You can catch up on the highlights in our 14 minute keynote recap!

Learning the different AWS services and how they work can be a daunting task, especially if you’re new to the cloud. Last year, we wrote about how you can use AWS Solution Focused Immersion Days (SFID) to accelerate your team’s understanding of different aspects of AWS. There are many resources available to help you build your knowledge and skills, such as AWS Whitepapers and 600+ free digital learning courses and resources on AWS Skill Builder, our online learning center...

Here are some launches that caught my attention last week:
- New Amazon EC2 G6 instances
- Mistral Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now in additional Regions
- Announcing AWS Deadline Cloud
- AWS Clean Rooms ML is Now Generally Available
- Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports private network policies for OpenSearch Serverless
- Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generally available
- AWS Lambda Adds Support for Ruby 3.3
- Amazon EventBridge Console Enhancements
- Private Access to the AWS Management Console in Commercial Regions

This month we launched eight new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including four new AWS Builder Labs and a free learning plan called, Generative AI Developer Kit. We also have three new, and one updated AWS Classroom Training courses—two of which have AWS Partner versions—including Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS. A reminder: registration is now open for the new AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate exam. You can begin preparing with curated exam prep resources, created by the experts at AWS, on AWS Skill Builder...

The highly anticipated AWS Summit London is returning and it's bigger than ever.

AWS Summits are free events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. At the AWS Summits, you can learn how to choose the right database, modernize your data warehouse, and drive digital transformation using AI. Summits are held in major cities around the world and attract technologists from all industries and skill levels who want to discover how AWS can help them innovate quickly and deliver flexible, reliable solutions at scale...

AWS re:Invent 2023 will be a five-day conference from November 27 to December 1, 2023.

The event will continue to be hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada, across the following six venues along the Las Vegas Strip:
- Caesars Forum (Breakout sessions, content hub, meals)
- Encore (Breakout sessions, bookable meeting space)
- Mandalay Bay (Breakout sessions, registration, content hub, meals)
- MGM Grand (Breakout sessions, registration, content hub, meals)
- The Venetian (Breakout sessions, registration, Expo, keynotes, content hub, meals)
- Wynn (Breakout sessions, meals)
 

The Ubuntu Summit is an event focused on the Linux and Open Source ecosystem, beyond Ubuntu itself. Representatives of outstanding projects will demonstrate how their work is changing the future of technology as we know it...

In this article, we will explore some of the best practices for API versioning in 2023 based on the latest trends and standards in the industry...

This blog post, based on the Hashicorp Packer course offered by KodeKloud, serves as a comprehensive guide to mastering HashiCorp Packer...

This article lists the 10 BEST Linux applications in 2023 for the desktop version of Ubuntu. We’ll examine what each application does and what makes it a great Linux application...

This article will walk you through the key offerings of Azure Free Tier and AWS Free Tier, outlining the specific products you can use under each and discussing how to evaluate them based on your business needs, technical expertise, and long-term cloud strategy...

Securing software systems' dependability and resilience has grown to be of the utmost importance in a world driven by technology, where software systems are becoming more complex and interconnected. In-depth testing, redundancy, and disaster recovery plans are just a few of the strategies that organizations are implementing to reduce the risks related to system failures. But chaos engineering stands out for its exceptional capacity to identify weaknesses and proactively fortify systems...

This article aims to ease novices into Ansible IAC at the hand of an example. The example being booting one's own out-of-cloud Kubernetes cluster...

Gitlab is an open-source, powerful, robust, scalable, secure, as well as efficient software development and collaboration platform for all stages of the DevOps lifecycle...

CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code on AWSDevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization’s ability to deliver software applications and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at a faster pace than with traditional software development and infrastructure management processes.

Join us for two full days of technical tips and tricks, winning observability strategies, and deep dives into all the newest features from Grafana Labs.

In this post, we walk you through the updated DOI signing strategy. We start with how basic container image signing works and gradually build up to what is currently a common image signing flow, which involves public/private key pairs, certificate authorities, the Update Framework (TUF), timestamp logs, transparency logs, and identity verification using Open ID Connect...

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