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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! Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Lambda function URL origins – Now you can protect your AWS Lambda URL origins by using Amazon CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions. The CloudFront Developer Guide has more details on how to get started using CloudFront OAC to authenticate access to Lambda function URLs from your designated CloudFront distributions. AWS Client VPN and AWS Verified Access migration and interoperability patterns – If you’re using AWS Client VPN or a similar third-party VPN-based solution to provide secure access to your applications today, you’ll be pleased to know that you can now combine the use of AWS Client VPN and AWS Verified Access for your new or existing applications. These two announcements related to Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock caught my eye: Metadata filtering to improve retrieval accuracy – With metadata filtering, you can retrieve not only semantically relevant chunks but a well-defined subset of those relevant chunks based on applied metadata filters and associated values. Custom prompts for the RetrieveAndGenerate API and configuration of the maximum number of retrieved results – These are two new features which you can now choose as query options alongside the search type to give you control over the search results. These are retrieved from the vector store and passed to the Foundation Models for generating the answer. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Other AWS news AWS open source news and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open source newsletter in which he highlights new open source projects, tools, and demos from the AWS Community. Upcoming AWS events AWS Summits – These are free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Whether you’re in the Americas, Asia Pacific & Japan, or EMEA region, learn here about future AWS Summit events happening in your area. AWS Community Days – Join an AWS Community Day event just like the one I mentioned at the beginning of this post to participate in technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from your area. If you’re in Kenya, or Nepal, there’s an event happening in your area this coming weekend. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events here. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! – Veliswa This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS. View the full article

Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Lambda URL origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions. View the full article

Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Elemental MediaPackage origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions. View the full article

Starting today, you can enable Common Media Client Data (CMCD) fields in your CloudFront real-time logs. You can select key client-side performance parameters and CloudFront delivery performance parameters in the same log record. This can help you correlate variations in Quality of Experience (QoE) for your viewers to CloudFront performance at the granularity of single viewer sessions, simplifying the troubleshooting of QoE issues that impact your viewers engagement. View the full article

You can now create or associate a monitor for a distribution directly from the Amazon CloudFront console. By adding your distribution to a monitor, you can gain improved visibility into your application's internet performance and availability using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can create a monitor for the distribution, or add the distribution to an existing monitor, directly from the distribution metrics dashboard on the CloudFront console. View the full article