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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. I was amazed to meet so many new and old friends at the AWS Summit London. To give you a quick glimpse, here’s AWS Hero Yan Cui starting his presentation at the AWS Community stage. Last week’s launches With so many interesting new features, I start with generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) and then move to the other topics. Here’s what got my attention: Amazon Bedrock – For supported architectures such as Llama, Mistral, or Flan T5, you can now import custom models and access them on demand. Model evaluation is now generally available to help you evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models (FMs) for your specific use case. You can now access Meta’s Llama 3 models. Agents for Amazon Bedrock – A simplified agent creation and return of control, so that you can define an action schema and get the control back to perform those action without needing to create a specific AWS Lambda function. Agents also added support for Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet to help build faster and more intelligent agents. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – You can now ingest data from up to five data sources and provide more complete answers. In the console, you can now chat with one of your documents without needing to set up a vector database (read more in this Machine Learning blog post). Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock – The capability to implement safeguards based on your use cases and responsible AI policies is now available with new safety filters and privacy controls. Amazon Titan – The new watermark detection feature is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. In this way, you can identify images generated by Amazon Titan Image Generator using an invisible watermark present in all images generated by Amazon Titan. Amazon CodeCatalyst – Amazon Q can now split complex issues into separate, simpler tasks that can then be assigned to a user or back to Amazon Q. CodeCatalyst now also supports approval gates within a workflow. Approval gates pause a workflow that is building, testing, and deploying code so that a user can validate whether it should be allowed to proceed. Amazon EC2 – You can now remove an automatically assigned public IPv4 address from an EC2 instance. If you no longer need the automatically assigned public IPv4 (for example, because you are migrating to using a private IPv4 address for SSH with EC2 instance connect), you can use this option to quickly remove the automatically assigned public IPv4 address and reduce your public IPv4 costs. Network Load Balancer – Now supports Resource Map in AWS Management Console, a tool that displays all your NLB resources and their relationships in a visual format on a single page. Note that Application Load Balancer already supports Resource Map in the console. AWS CodeBuild – Now supports managed GitHub Action self-hosted runners. You can configure CodeBuild projects to receive GitHub Actions workflow job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. Amazon Route 53 – You can now define a standard DNS configuration in the form of a Profile, apply this configuration to multiple VPCs, and share it across AWS accounts. AWS Direct Connect – Hosted connections now support capacities up to 25 Gbps. Before, the maximum was 10 Gbps. Higher bandwidths simplify deployments of applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), media and entertainment (M&E), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB – A revamped operation builder user interface to help you better navigate, run operations, and browse your DynamoDB tables. Amazon GameLift – Now supports in preview end-to-end development of containerized workloads, including deployment and scaling on premises, in the cloud, or for hybrid configurations. You can use containers for building, deploying, and running game server packages. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. Other AWS news Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that you might find interesting: GQL, the new ISO standard for graphs, has arrived – GQL, which stands for Graph Query Language, is the first new ISO database language since the introduction of SQL in 1987. Authorize API Gateway APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions and Amazon Cognito – Externalizing authorization logic for application APIs can yield multiple benefits. Here’s an example of how to use Cedar policies to secure a REST API. Build and deploy a 1 TB/s file system in under an hour – Very nice walkthrough for something that used to be not so easy to do in the recent past. Let’s Architect! Discovering Generative AI on AWS – A new episode in this amazing series of posts that provides a broad introduction to the domain and then shares a mix of videos, blog posts, and hands-on workshops. Building scalable, secure, and reliable RAG applications using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – This post explores the new features (including AWS CloudFormation support) and how they align with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Using the unified CloudWatch Agent to send traces to AWS X-Ray – With added support for the collection of AWS X-Ray and OpenTelemetry traces, you can now provision a single agent to capture metrics, logs, and traces. The executive’s guide to generative AI for sustainability – A guide for implementing a generative AI roadmap within sustainability strategies. AWS open source news and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes about open source projects, tools, and events from the AWS Community. Check out Ricardo’s page for the latest updates. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for upcoming AWS events: AWS Summits – Join free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Register in your nearest city: Singapore (May 7), Seoul (May 16–17), Hong Kong (May 22), Milan (May 23), Stockholm (June 4), and Madrid (June 5). AWS re:Inforce – Explore 2.5 days of immersive cloud security learning in the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania. AWS Community Days – Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world: Turkey (May 18), Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28). GOTO EDA Day London – Join us in London on May 14 to learn about event-driven architectures (EDA) for building highly scalable, fault tolerant, and extensible applications. This conference is organized by GOTO, AWS, and partners. Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Danilo 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

AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action self-hosted runners. Customers can configure their CodeBuild projects to receive GitHub Actions workflow job events and run them on CodeBuild ephemeral hosts. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. View the full article

AWS Summit season is starting! I’m happy I will meet our customers, partners, and the press next week at the AWS Summit Paris and the week after at the AWS Summit Amsterdam. I’ll show you how mobile application developers can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to boost their productivity. Be sure to stop by and say hi if you’re around. Now that my talks for the Summit are ready, I took the time to look back at the AWS launches from last week and write this summary for you. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS License Manager allows you to track IBM Db2 licenses on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) – I wrote about Amazon RDS when we launched IBM Db2 back in December 2023 and I told you that you must bring your own Db2 license. Starting today, you can track your Amazon RDS for Db2 usage with AWS License Manager. License Manager provides you with better control and visibility of your licenses to help you limit licensing overages and reduce the risk of non-compliance and misreporting. AWS CodeBuild now supports custom images for AWS Lambda – You can now use compute container images stored in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository for projects configured to run on Lambda compute. Previously, you had to use one of the managed container images provided by AWS CodeBuild. AWS managed container images include support for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), Serverless Application Model, and various programming language runtimes. AWS CodeArtifact package group configuration – Administrators of package repositories can now manage the configuration of multiple packages in one single place. A package group allows you to define how packages are updated by internal developers or from upstream repositories. You can now allow or block internal developers to publish packages or allow or block upstream updates for a group of packages. Read my blog post for all the details. Return your Savings Plans – We have announced the ability to return Savings Plans within 7 days of purchase. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that can help you reduce your bill by up to 72 percent compared to On-Demand prices, in exchange for a one- or three-year hourly spend commitment. If you realize that the Savings Plan you recently purchased isn’t optimal for your needs, you can return it and if needed, repurchase another Savings Plan that better matches your needs. Amazon EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts now provide visibility into supported macOS versions – You can now view the latest macOS versions supported on your EC2 Mac Dedicated Host, which enables you to proactively validate if your Dedicated Host can support instances with your preferred macOS versions. Amazon Corretto 22 is now generally available – Corretto 22, an OpenJDK feature release, introduces a range of new capabilities and enhancements for developers. New features like stream gatherers and unnamed variables help you write code that’s clearer and easier to maintain. Additionally, optimizations in garbage collection algorithms boost performance. Existing libraries for concurrency, class files, and foreign functions have also been updated, giving you a more powerful toolkit to build robust and efficient Java applications. Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies and AWS PrivateLink – With AWS PrivateLink, you can simplify private network connectivity between Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), Amazon DynamoDB, and your on-premises data centers using interface VPC endpoints and private IP addresses. On the other side, resource-based policies to help you simplify access control for your DynamoDB resources. With resource-based policies, you can specify the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals that have access to a resource and what actions they can perform on it. You can attach a resource-based policy to a DynamoDB table or a stream. Resource-based policies also simplify cross-account access control for sharing resources with IAM principals of different AWS accounts. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. Other AWS news Here are some additional news items, open source projects, and Twitch shows that you might find interesting: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) migrated 25PB of archives to Amazon S3 Glacier – The BBC Archives Technology and Services team needed a modern solution to centralize, digitize, and migrate its 100-year-old flagship archives. It began using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Glacier Instant Retrieval, which is an archive storage class that delivers the lowest-cost storage for long-lived data that is rarely accessed and requires retrieval in milliseconds. I did the math, you need 2,788,555 DVD discs to store 25PB of data. Imagine a pile of DVDs reaching 41.8 kilometers (or 25.9 miles) tall! Read the full story. Build On Generative AI – Season 3 of your favorite weekly Twitch show about all things generative AI is in full swing! Streaming every Monday, 9:00 AM US PT, my colleagues Tiffany and Darko discuss different aspects of generative AI and invite guest speakers to demo their work. 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 Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Summits – As I wrote in the introduction, it’s AWS Summit season again! The first one happens next week in Paris (April 3), followed by Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 10–11), London (April 24), Berlin (May 15–16), and Seoul (May 16–17). AWS Summits are a series of free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. AWS re:Inforce – Join us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. AWS re:Inforce is a learning conference focused on AWS security solutions, cloud security, compliance, and identity. Connect with the AWS teams that build the security tools and meet AWS customers to learn about their security journeys. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! -- seb 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

AWS CodeBuild now supports using container images stored in Amazon ECR repository for projects configured to run on Lambda compute. Previously, you had to use one of the managed container images provided by AWS CodeBuild. AWS managed container images include support for AWS CLI, AWS SAM CLI, and various programming language runtimes. View the full article

AWS CodeBuild customers can now use AWS Lambda to build and test their software packages. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. View the full article