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As expected, there were lots of exciting launches and updates announced during the AWS Summit New York. You can quickly scan the highlights in Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024. My colleagues and fellow AWS News Blog writers Veliswa Boya and Sébastien Stormacq were at the AWS Community Day Cameroon last week. They were energized to meet amazing professionals, mentors, and students – all willing to learn and exchange thoughts about cloud technologies. You can access the video replay to feel the vibes or just watch some of the talks! Last week’s launches In addition to the launches at the New York Summit, here are a few others that got my attention. Advanced RAG capabilities Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – These include custom chunking options to enable customers to write their own chunking code as a Lambda function; smart parsing to extract information from complex data such as tables; and query reformulation to break down queries into simpler sub-queries, retrieve relevant information for each, and combine the results into a final comprehensive answer. Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management and Prompt Flows – This is a preview launch of Prompt Management that help developers and prompt engineers get the best responses from foundation models for their use cases; and Prompt Flows accelerates the creation, testing, and deployment of workflows through an intuitive visual builder. Fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock (preview) – By providing your own task-specific training dataset, you can fine tune and customize Claude 3 Haiku to boost model accuracy, quality, and consistency to further tailor generative AI for your business. IDE workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat – Users can now add @workspace to their chat message in Q Developer to ask questions about the code in the project they currently have open in the IDE. Q Developer automatically ingests and indexes all code files, configurations, and project structure, giving the chat comprehensive context across your entire application within the IDE. New features in Amazon Q Business – The new personalization capabilities in Amazon Q Business are automatically enabled and will use your enterprise’s employee profile data to improve their user experience. You can now get answers from text content in scanned PDFs, and images embedded in PDF documents, without having to use OCR for preprocessing and text extraction. Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 are now generally available – Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Vector search for Amazon MemoryDB is now generally available – Vector search for MemoryDB enables real-time machine learning (ML) and generative AI applications. It can store millions of vectors with single-digit millisecond query and update latencies at the highest levels of throughput with >99% recall. Introducing Valkey GLIDE, an open source client library for Valkey and Redis open source – Valkey is an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, and message queues. Valkey GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and it supports all Valkey commands. GLIDE supports Valkey 7.2 and above, and Redis open source 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2. Amazon OpenSearch Service enhancements – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports workloads up to 30TB of data for time-series collections enabling more data-intensive use cases, and an innovative caching mechanism that automatically fetches and intelligently manages data, leading to faster data retrieval, efficient storage usage, and cost savings. Amazon OpenSearch Service has now added support for AI powered Natural Language Query Generation in OpenSearch Dashboards Log Explorer so you can get started quickly with log analysis without first having to be proficient in PPL. Open source release of Secrets Manager Agent for AWS Secrets Manager – Secrets Manager Agent is a language agnostic local HTTP service that you can install and use in your compute environments to read secrets from Secrets Manager and cache them in memory, instead of making a network call to Secrets Manager. Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports logging of all events in AWS CloudTrail – This capability lets you get details on who made API calls to S3 Express One Zone and when API calls were made, thereby enhancing data visibility for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. Amazon CloudFront announces managed cache policies for web applications – Previously, Amazon CloudFront customers had two options for managed cache policies, and had to create custom cache policies for all other cases. With the new managed cache policies, CloudFront caches content based on the Cache-Control headers returned by the origin, and defaults to not caching when the header is not returned. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. We launched existing services in additional Regions: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Data API for Aurora PostgreSQL is now available in 10 additional AWS regions. Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in nine new AWS Regions. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) customers can now host their applications in Canada West (Calgary) region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Amazon EMR support for backup and restore for Apache HBase Tables is available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. Amazon Cognito is now available in Canada West (Calgary) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. Other AWS news Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that you might find interesting: Context window overflow: Breaking the barrier – This blog post dives into intricate workings of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, and why is it crucial to understand and mitigate the limitations of CWO (context window overflow). Using Agents for Amazon Bedrock to interactively generate infrastructure as code – This blog post explores how Agents for Amazon Bedrock can be used to generate customized, organization standards-compliant IaC scripts directly from uploaded architecture diagrams. Automating model customization in Amazon Bedrock with AWS Step Functions workflow – This blog post covers orchestrating repeatable and automated workflows for customizing Amazon Bedrock models and how AWS Step Functions can help overcome key pain points in model customization. AWS open source news and updates – My colleague Ricardo Sueiras 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. To learn more about future AWS Summit events, visit the AWS Summit page. Register in your nearest city: Bogotá (July 18), Taipei (July 23–24), AWS Summit Mexico City (Aug. 7), and AWS Summit Sao Paulo (Aug. 15). 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. Upcoming AWS Community Days are in Aotearoa (Aug. 15), Nigeria (Aug. 24), New York (Aug. 28), and Belfast (Sept. 6). 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! — Abhishek 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

I counted only 21 AWS news since last Monday, most of them being Regional expansions of existing services and capabilities. I hope you enjoyed a relatively quiet week, because this one will be busier. This week, we’re welcoming our customers and partners at the Jacob Javits Convention Center for the AWS Summit New York on Wednesday, July 10. I can tell you there is a stream of announcements coming, if I judge by the number of AWS News Blog posts ready to be published. I am writing these lines just before packing my bag to attend the AWS Community Day in Douala, Cameroon next Saturday. I can’t wait to meet our customers and partners, students, and the whole AWS community there. But for now, let’s look at last week’s new announcements. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Grants now integrate with Amazon SageMaker and open souce Python frameworks – Amazon S3 Access Grants maps identities in directories such as Active Directory or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. The integration with Amazon SageMaker Studio for machine learning (ML) helps you map identities to your machine learning (ML) datasets in S3. The integration with the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) plugin replaces any custom code required to manage data permissions, so you can use S3 Access Grants in open source Python frameworks such as Django, TensorFlow, NumPy, Pandas, and more. AWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logs – You can now capture your Lambda logs in JSON structured format without bringing your own logging libraries. You can also control the log level (for example, ERROR, DEBUG, or INFO) of your Lambda logs without making any code changes. Lastly, you can choose the Amazon CloudWatch log group to which Lambda sends your logs. Amazon DataZone introduces fine-grained access control – Amazon DataZone has introduced fine-grained access control, providing data owners granular control over their data at row and column levels. You use Amazon DataZone to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. Data owners can now restrict access to specific records of data instead of granting access to an entire dataset. AWS Direct Connect proposes native 400 Gbps dedicated connections at select locations – AWS Direct Connect provides private, high-bandwidth connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation facility. Native 400 Gbps connections provide higher bandwidth without the operational overhead of managing multiple 100 Gbps connections in a link aggregation group. The increased capacity delivered by 400 Gbps connections is particularly beneficial to applications that transfer large-scale datasets, such as for ML and large language model (LLM) training or advanced driver assistance systems for autonomous vehicles. 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 that you might find interesting: The list of services available at launch in the upcoming AWS Europe Sovereign Cloud Region is available – we shared the list of AWS services that will be initially available at launch in the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region. The list has no surprises. Services for security, networking, storage, computing, containers, artificial intelligence (AI), and serverless will be available at launch. We are building the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to offer public sector organizations and customers in highly regulated industries further choice to help them meet their unique digital sovereignty requirements, as well as stringent data residency, operational autonomy, and resiliency requirements. This is an investment of 7.8 billion euros (approximately $8.46 billion). The new Region will be available by the end of 2025. 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. To learn more about future AWS Summit events, visit the AWS Summit page. Register in your nearest city: New York (July 10), Bogotá (July 18), and Taipei (July 23–24). 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. Upcoming AWS Community Days are in Cameroon (July 13), Aotearoa (August 15), and Nigeria (August 24). 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! -- 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 Summit New York is 10 days away, and I am very excited about the new announcements and more than 170 sessions. There will be A Night Out with AWS event after the summit for professionals from the media and entertainment, gaming, and sports industries who are existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers or have a keen interest in using AWS Cloud services for their business. You’ll have the opportunity to relax, collaborate, and build new connections with AWS leaders and industry peers. Let’s look at the last week’s new announcements. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention. AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct now available in Amazon Bedrock – AI21 Labs’ Jamba-Instruct is an instruction-following large language model (LLM) for reliable commercial use, with the ability to understand context and subtext, complete tasks from natural language instructions, and ingest information from long documents or financial filings. With strong reasoning capabilities, Jamba-Instruct can break down complex problems, gather relevant information, and provide structured outputs to enable uses like Q&A on calls, summarizing documents, building chatbots, and more. For more information, visit AI21 Labs in Amazon Bedrock and the Amazon Bedrock User Guide. Amazon WorkSpaces Pools, a new feature of Amazon WorkSpaces – You can now create a pool of non-persistent virtual desktops using Amazon WorkSpaces and save costs by sharing them across users who receive a fresh desktop each time they sign in. WorkSpaces Pools provides the flexibility to support shared environments like training labs and contact centers, and some user settings like bookmarks and files stored in a central storage repository such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or Amazon FSx can be saved for improved personalization. You can use AWS Auto Scaling to automatically scale the pool of virtual desktops based on usage metrics or schedules. For pricing information, refer to the Amazon WorkSpaces Pricing page. API-driven, OpenLineage-compatible data lineage visualization in Amazon DataZone (preview) – Amazon DataZone introduces a new data lineage feature that allows you to visualize how data moves from source to consumption across organizations. The service captures lineage events from OpenLineage-enabled systems or through API to trace data transformations. Data consumers can gain confidence in an asset’s origin, and producers can assess the impact of changes by understanding its consumption through the comprehensive lineage view. Additionally, Amazon DataZone versions lineage with each event to enable visualizing lineage at any point in time or comparing transformations across an asset or job’s history. To learn more, visit Amazon DataZone, read my News Blog post, and get started with data lineage documentation. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now offers observability logs – You can now monitor knowledge ingestion logs through Amazon CloudWatch, S3 buckets, or Amazon Data Firehose streams. This provides enhanced visibility into whether documents were successfully processed or encountered failures during ingestion. Having these comprehensive insights promptly ensures that you can efficiently determine when your documents are ready for use. For more details on these new capabilities, refer to the Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock documentation. Updates and expansion to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog – We announced updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog to provide expanded guidance and recommendations on architectural best practices for building secure and resilient cloud workloads. The updates reduce redundancies and enhance consistency in resources and framework structure. The Lens Catalog now includes the new Financial Services Industry Lens and updates to the Mergers and Acquisitions Lens. We also made important updates to the Change Enablement in the Cloud whitepaper. You can use the updated Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog to design cloud architectures optimized for your unique requirements by following current best practices. Cross-account machine learning (ML) model sharing support in Amazon SageMaker Model Registry – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now integrates with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), allowing you to easily share ML models across AWS accounts. This helps data scientists, ML engineers, and governance officers access models in different accounts like development, staging, and production. You can share models in Amazon SageMaker Model Registry by specifying the model in the AWS RAM console and granting access to other accounts. This new feature is now available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker Model Registry is available except GovCloud Regions. To learn more, visit the Amazon SageMaker Developer Guide. AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton3 – AWS CodeBuild now supports natively building and testing Arm workloads on AWS Graviton3 processors without additional configuration, providing up to 25% higher performance and 60% lower energy usage than previous Graviton processors. To learn more about CodeBuild’s support for Arm, visit our AWS CodeBuild User Guide. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. We launched existing services and instance types in additional Regions: Amazon RDS now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. RDS integration with AWS Secrets Manager improves your database security by ensuring your RDS master user password is not visible in plaintext to administrators or engineers during your database creation workflow. Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available in Canada (Central) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain, Zurich) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling elastically scales query processing power to provide consistently fast performance for hundreds of concurrent queries. Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon, N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris (M7g only), Spain, Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). These new nodes deliver up to 28% increased throughput, 21% improved P99 latency, and 25% higher networking bandwidth compared to Graviton2 nodes for improved price performance. Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. C6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of 3.6 GHz. C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance than comparable C5a instances. Amazon Redshift Serverless with lower base capacity is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm), and US West (N. California) Regions. Amazon Redshift Serverless now has a lower minimum base capacity of 8 RPUs, down from 32 RPUs, providing more flexibility to support a diverse range of small to large workloads based on price-performance requirements by measuring capacity in RPUs paid per second. Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity is now available in South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Spain) Regions. Provisioned Capacity is a feature of Athena that allows you to run SQL queries on fully managed, dedicated serverless resources for a fixed price and no long-term commitments. Amazon CloudWatch Logs account-level subscription filter is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions, as well as Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary) Regions. With this new capability, you can deliver real-time log events that are ingested into Amazon CloudWatch Logs to a Kinesis Data Streams data stream, an Amazon Data Firehose delivery stream, or an AWS Lambda function for custom processing, analysis, or delivery to other destinations using a single account level subscription filter. Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC) zonal autoshift is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. With this feature, you can safely and automatically shift an application’s traffic away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that Availability Zone. AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. You can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Other AWS news Here are some additional news items that you might find interesting: Top reasons to build and scale generative AI applications on Amazon Bedrock – Check out Jeff Barr’s video, where he discusses why our customers are choosing Amazon Bedrock to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) applications that deliver fast value and business growth. Amazon Bedrock is becoming a preferred platform for building and scaling generative AI due to its features, innovation, availability, and security. Leading organizations across diverse sectors use Amazon Bedrock to speed their generative AI work, like creating intelligent virtual assistants, creative design solutions, document processing systems, and a lot more. Four ways AWS is engineering infrastructure to power generative AI – We continue to optimize our infrastructure to support generative AI at scale through innovations like delivering low-latency, large-scale networking to enable faster model training, continuously improving data center energy efficiency, prioritizing security throughout our infrastructure design, and developing custom AI chips like AWS Trainium to increase computing performance while lowering costs and energy usage. Read the new blog post about how AWS is engineering infrastructure for generative AI. AWS re:Inforce 2024 re:Cap – It’s been 2 weeks since AWS re:Inforce 2024, our annual cloud-security learning event. Check out the summary of the event prepared by Wojtek. 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. To learn more about future AWS Summit events, visit the AWS Summit page. Register in your nearest city: New York (July 10), Bogotá (July 18), and Taipei (July 23–24). 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. Upcoming AWS Community Days are in Cameroon (July 13), Aotearoa (August 15), and Nigeria (August 24). 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! — Esra This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! 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This week, I had the opportunity to try the new Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet model in Amazon Bedrock just before it launched, and I was really impressed by its speed and accuracy! It was also the week of AWS Summit Japan. JAWS-UG, a Japanese AWS user group, held various sessions with AWS Heroes and Community Builders at the AWS Community Lounge, and many developers participated. Dr. Werner Vogels, a keynote speaker at the Japan Summit, had his first meeting with the Japanese community since 2020. Following the AWS Summit Japan, there was a lively event on Saturday where AWS community leaders from the Northeast Asia region (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea) all gathered together in one place. Last week’s launches With many new capabilities, from recommendations on the size of your Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) databases to new built-in transformations in AWS Glue, here’s what got my attention: Amazon Bedrock – Now supports Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and compressed embeddings from Cohere Embed. AWS CodeArtifact – With support for Rust packages with Cargo, developers can now store and access their Rust libraries (known as crates). Amazon CodeCatalyst – Many updates from this unified software development service. You can now assign issues in CodeCatalyst to Amazon Q and direct it to work with source code hosted in GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud and ask Amazon Q to analyze issues and recommend granular tasks. These tasks can then be individually assigned to users or to Amazon Q itself. You can now also use Amazon Q to help pick the best blueprint for your needs. You can now securely store, publish, and share Maven, Python, and NuGet packages. You can also link an issue to other issues. This allows customers to link issues in CodeCatalyst as blocked by, duplicate of, related to, or blocks another issue. You can now configure a single CodeBuild webhook at organization or enterprise level to receive events from all repositories in your organizations, instead of creating webhooks for each individual repository. Finally, you can now add a default IAM role to an environment. Amazon EC2 – C7g and R7g instances (powered by AWS Graviton3 processors) are now available in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. C7i-flex instances are now available in US East (Ohio) Region. AWS Compute Optimizer – Now provides rightsizing recommendations for Amazon RDS MySQL, and RDS PostgreSQL. More info in this Cloud Financial Management blog post. Amazon OpenSearch Service – With JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication and authorization, it’s now easier to integrate identity providers and isolate tenants in a multi-tenant application. Amazon SageMaker – Now helps you manage machine learning (ML) experiments and the entire ML lifecycle with a fully managed MLflow capability. AWS Glue – The serverless data integration service now offers 13 new built-in transforms: flag duplicates in column, format Phone Number, format case, fill with mode, flag duplicate rows, remove duplicates, month name, iIs even, cryptographic hash, decrypt, encrypt, int to IP, and IP to int. Amazon MWAA – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports custom domain names for the Airflow web server, allowing to use private web servers with load balancers, custom DNS entries, or proxies to point users to a user-friendly web address. 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: AWS re:Inforce 2024 re:Cap – A summary of our annual, immersive, cloud-security learning event by my colleague Wojtek. Three ways Amazon Q Developer agent for code transformation accelerates Java upgrades – This post offers interesting details on how Amazon Q Developer handles major version upgrades of popular frameworks, replacing deprecated API calls on your behalf, and explainability on code changes. Five ways Amazon Q simplifies AWS CloudFormation development – For template code generation, querying CloudFormation resource requirements, explaining existing template code, understanding deployment options and issues, and querying CloudFormation documentation. Improving air quality with generative AI – A nice solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to standardize air quality data, addressing the air quality data integration problem of low-cost sensors. Deploy a Slack gateway for Amazon Bedrock – A solution bringing the power of generative AI directly into your Slack workspace. An agent-based simulation of Amazon’s inbound supply chain – Simulating the entire US inbound supply chain, including the “first-mile” of distribution and tracking the movement of hundreds of millions of individual products through the network. AWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) v1 – This upgrade is particularly significant because it converts from using the CloudFormation spec to using CloudFormation registry resource provider schemas. A practical approach to using generative AI in the SDLC – Learn how an AI assistant like Amazon Q Developer helps my colleague Jenna figure out what to build and how to build it. 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. This week, you can join the AWS Summit in Washington, DC, June 26–27. Learn here about future AWS Summit events happening in your area. 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. This week there are AWS Community Days in Switzerland (June 27), Sri Lanka (June 27), and the Gen AI Edition in Ahmedabad, India (June 29). 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! 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Last week, my alma mater Standard Bank Group (SBG) hosted a Software Engineering Conference and invited me to be one of the keynote speakers. SBG has presence throughout Africa and this hybrid conference was attended by almost 2,000 engineers from across the continent. It was amazing to reconnect with long-time friends and former colleagues, and to make new friends. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users – We’ve added passkeys to the list of supported multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your root and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, to give you the convenience of use and easy recoverability. A passkey is a pair of cryptographic keys generated on your client device when you register for a service or a website. Passkeys can be used to replace passwords. However, for this initial release, we choose to use passkeys as a second factor authentication, in addition to your password. Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 – At AWS re:Inforce 2024 this past week, we announced general availability of Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This is an expansion of GuardDuty Malware Protection to detect malicious file uploads to selected S3 buckets. Benefits include the ability to fully manage malware detection without managing compute infrastructure, and coverage summary for all protected buckets in your organization, to name a few. Read more in the post published last week detailing Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3. IAM Access Analyzer Update – More goodness out of AWS re:Inforce 2024 last week! We announced an IAM Access Analyzer Update, which allows you to extend custom policy checks and also includes a guided revocation. This gives you guidance that you can share with your developers so that they can revoke unneeded permissions. My colleague Jeff Barr writes about it in more detail in this post. 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. The .Net developer community remains close to our hearts here at AWS. I’m inspired by my colleagues Brandon Minnick and Francois Bouteruche who support this community, resulting in the AWS and the Azure engineering teams working together to create delightful .NET developer experiences. At the recently held NDC Oslo, which is part of the NDC Conferences hosted around the world, VP of Azure Developer Experience, Scott Hunter, talked about this collaboration during his keynote. Make sure to catch the keynote on the NDC Conferences YouTube Channel as soon as it’s published. 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 Sri Lanka, there’s an event happening in your area next week. 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

In the last AWS Weekly Roundup, Channy reminded us on how life has ups and downs. It’s just how life is. But, that doesn’t mean that we should do it alone. Farouq Mousa, AWS Community Builder, is fighting brain cancer and Allen Helton, AWS Serverless Hero, his daughter is fighting leukemia. If you have a moment, please visit their campaign pages and give your support. Meanwhile, we’ve just finished a few AWS Summits in India, Korea and also Thailand. As always, I had so much fun working together at Developer Lounge with AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and AWS User Group leaders. Here’s a photo from everyone here. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my attention last week: Welcome, new AWS Heroes! — Last week, we just announced new cohort for AWS Heroes, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge and empower their communities. Amazon API Gateway increased integration timeout limit — If you’re using Regional REST APIs and private REST APIs in Amazon API Gateway, now you can increase the integration timeout limit greater than 29 seconds. This allows you to run various workloads requiring longer timeouts. Amazon Q offers inline completion in the command line — Now, Amazon Q Developer provides real-time AI-generated code suggestions as you type in your command line. As a regular command line interface (CLI) user, I’m really excited about this. New common control library in AWS Audit Manager — This announcement helps you to save time when mapping enterprise controls into AWS Audit Manager. Check out Danilo’s post where he elaborated how that you can simplify risk and complicance assessment with the new common control library. Amazon Inspector container image scanning for Amazon CodeCatalyst and GitHub actions — If you need to integrate your CI/CD with software vulnerabilities checking, you can use Amazon Inspector. Now, with this native integration in GitHub actions and Amazon CodeCatalyst, it streamlines your development pipeline process. Ingest streaming data with Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka — With this new capability, now you can build more efficient data pipelines for your complex analytics use cases. Now, you can seamlessly index the data from your Amazon MSK Serverless clusters in Amazon OpenSearch service. Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now available in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base — You now can embed your data into a vector database using Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2. This will be helpful for you to retrieve relevant information for various tasks. Max tokens 8,192 Languages 100+ in pre-training Fine-tuning supported No Normalization supported Yes Vector size 256, 512, 1,024 (default) From Community.aws Here’s my 3 personal favorites posts from community.aws: From sitting-at-home mom to Data Scientist by Darya Petrashka A developer’s guide to Bedrock’s new Converse API by Dennis Traub Getting started with Amazon Q Developer in Visual Studio Code by Rohini Gaonkar Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS and AWS Community 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: Japan (June 20), Washington, DC (June 26–27), and New York (July 10). AWS re:Inforce — Join us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, PA. 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. 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: Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), New Zealand (August 15), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28). You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Donnie 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

Life is not always happy, there are difficult times. However, we can share our joys and sufferings with those we work with. The AWS Community is no exception. Jeff Barr introduced two members of the AWS community who are dealing with health issues. Farouq Mousa is an AWS Community Builder and fighting brain cancer. Allen Helton is an AWS Serverless Hero and his young daughter is fighting leukemia. Please donate to support Farauq and Olivia, Allen’s daughter to overcome their disease. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: 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. New Document widget for PartyRock – You can build, use, and share generative AI-powered apps for fun and for boosting personal productivity, using PartyRock. Its widgets display content, accept input, connect with other widgets, and generate outputs like text, images, and chats using foundation models. You can now use new document widget to integrate text content from files and documents directly into a PartyRock app. 30 days of alarm history in Amazon CloudWatch – You can view the history of your alarm state changes for up to 30 days prior. Previously, CloudWatch provided 2 weeks of alarm history. This extended history makes it easier to observe past behavior and review incidents over a longer period of time. To learn more, visit the CloudWatch alarms documentation section. 10x faster startup time in Amazon SageMaker Canvas – You can launch SageMaker Canvas in less than a minute and get started with your visual, no-code interface for machine learning 10x faster than before. Now, all new user profiles created in existing or new SageMaker domains can experience this accelerated startup time. 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 and a Twitch show that you might find interesting: Let us manage your relational database! – Jeff Barr ran a poll to better understand why some AWS customers still choose to host their own databases in the cloud. Working backwards, he highlights four issues that AWS managed database services address. Consider these before hosting your own database. Amazon Bedrock Serverless Prompt Chaining – This repository provides examples of using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock to build complex, serverless, and highly scalable generative AI applications with prompt chaining. AWS Merch Store Spring Sale – Do you want to buy AWS branded t-shirts, hats, bags, and so on? Get 15% off on all items now through June 7th. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS World IPv6 Day — Join us a free in-person celebration event on June 6, for technical presentations from AWS experts plus a workshop and whiteboarding session. You will learn how to get started with IPv6 and hear from customers who have started on the journey of IPv6 adoption. Check out your near city: San Francisco, Seattle, New York, London, Mumbai, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Manila, and Sydney. 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: Stockholm (June 4), Madrid (June 5), and Washington, DC (June 26–27). AWS re:Inforce — Join us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, PA. 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. 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: Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), New Zealand (August 15), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28). You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Channy 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

Last week, Dr. Matt Wood, VP for AI Products at Amazon Web Services (AWS), delivered the keynote at the AWS Summit Los Angeles. Matt and guest speakers shared the latest advancements in generative artificial intelligence (generative AI), developer tooling, and foundational infrastructure, showcasing how they come together to change what’s possible for builders. You can watch the full keynote on YouTube. Announcements during the LA Summit included two new Amazon Q courses as part of Amazon’s AI Ready initiative to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people globally by 2025. The courses are part of the Amazon Q learning plan. But that’s not all that happened last week. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune — You can now build Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) applications by combining knowledge graphs stored in Amazon Neptune and LlamaIndex, a popular open source framework for building applications with large language models (LLMs) such as those available in Amazon Bedrock. To learn more, check the LlamaIndex documentation for Amazon Neptune Graph Store. AWS CloudFormation launches a new parameter called DeletionMode for the DeleteStack API — You can use the AWS CloudFormation DeleteStack API to delete your stacks and stack resources. However, certain stack resources can prevent the DeleteStack API from successfully completing, for example, when you attempt to delete non-empty Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The DeleteStack API can enter into the DELETE_FAILED state in such scenarios. With this launch, you can now pass FORCE_DELETE_STACK value to the new DeletionMode parameter and delete such stacks. To learn more, check the DeleteStack API documentation. Mistral Small now available in Amazon Bedrock — The Mistral Small foundation model (FM) from Mistral AI is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This a fast-follow to our recent announcements of Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B in March, and Mistral Large in April. Mistral Small, developed by Mistral AI, is a highly efficient large language model (LLM) optimized for high-volume, low-latency language-based tasks. To learn more, check Esra’s post. New Amazon CloudFront edge location in Cairo, Egypt — The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video with low latency and high performance. Customers in Egypt can expect up to 30 percent improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location. To learn more about AWS edge locations, visit CloudFront edge locations. Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 — This Amazon OpenSearch Service integration offers a new efficient way to query operational logs in Amazon S3 data lakes, eliminating the need to switch between tools to analyze data. You can get started by installing out-of-the-box dashboards for AWS log types such as Amazon VPC Flow Logs, AWS WAF Logs, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). To learn more, check out the Amazon OpenSearch Service Integrations page and the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide. 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 and a Twitch show that you might find interesting: Build On Generative AI — Now streaming every Thursday, 2:00 PM US PT on twitch.tv/aws, my colleagues Tiffany and Mike discuss different aspects of generative AI and invite guest speakers to demo their work. Check out show notes and the full list of episodes on community.aws. Amazon Bedrock Studio bootstrapper script — We’ve heard your feedback! To everyone who struggled setting up the required AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and permissions to get started with Amazon Bedrock Studio: You can now use the Bedrock Studio bootstrapper script to automate the creation of the permissions boundary, service role, and provisioning role. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Summits — It’s AWS Summit season! 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: Dubai (May 29), Bangkok (May 30), Stockholm (June 4), Madrid (June 5), and Washington, DC (June 26–27). AWS re:Inforce — Join us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, PA. 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. 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: Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), New Zealand (August 15), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28). You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Antje This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. 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AWS Summit season is in full swing around the world, with last week’s events in Bengaluru, Berlin, and Seoul, where my blog colleague Channy delivered one of the keynotes. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes – A customer reported how he was charged for Amazon S3 API requests he didn’t initiate and which resulted in AccessDenied errors. The Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) service team updated the service to not charge such API requests anymore. As always when talking about pricing, the exact wording is important, so please read the What’s New post for the details. Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances – These instances delivers up to 19 percent better price performance compared to C6i instances. Using C7i-flex instances is the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute-intensive workloads. The new instances are powered by the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors (Sapphire Rapids) that are available only on AWS and offer 5 percent lower prices compared to C7i. Application Load Balancer launches IPv6 only support for internet clients – Application Load Balancer now allows customers to provision load balancers without IPv4s for clients that can connect using just IPv6s. To connect, clients can resolve AAAA DNS records that are assigned to Application Load Balancer. The Application Load Balancer is still dual stack for communication between the load balancer and targets. With this new capability, you have the flexibility to use both IPv4s or IPv6s for your application targets while avoiding IPv4 charges for clients that don’t require it. Amazon VPC Lattice now supports TLS Passthrough – We announced the general availability of TLS passthrough for Amazon VPC Lattice, which allows customers to enable end-to-end authentication and encryption using their existing TLS or mTLS implementations. Prior to this launch, VPC Lattice supported HTTP and HTTPS listener protocols only, which terminates TLS and performs request-level routing and load balancing based on information in HTTP headers. Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service – This new integration provides you with advanced search capabilities, such as fuzzy search, cross-collection search and multilingual search, on your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) documents using the OpenSearch API. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can now synchronize your data from Amazon DocumentDB to Amazon OpenSearch Service, eliminating the need to write any custom code to extract, transform, and load the data. Amazon EventBridge now supports customer managed keys (CMK) for event buses – This capability allows you to encrypt your events using your own keys instead of an AWS owned key (which is used by default). With support for CMK, you now have more fine-grained security control over your events, satisfying your company’s security requirements and governance policies. 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: The Four Pillars of Managing Email Reputation – Dustin Taylor is the manager of anti-abuse and email deliverability for Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). He wrote a remarkable post exploring Amazon SES approach to managing domain and IP reputation. Maintaining a high reputation ensures optimal recipient inboxing. His post outlines how Amazon SES protects its network reputation to help you deliver high-quality email consistently. A worthy read, even if you’re not sending email at scale. I learned a lot. Build On Generative AI – Season 3 of your favorite weekly Twitch show about all things generative artificial intelligence (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 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: 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: Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28). 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! -- 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 Summit is in full swing around the world, with the most recent one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here is a sneak peek of the AWS staff and ASEAN community members at the Developer Lounge booth. It featured AWS Community speakers giving lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), security, generative AI, and more. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that caught my attention. Not surprisingly, a lot of interesting generative AI features! Amazon Titan Text Premier is now available in Amazon Bedrock – This is the latest addition to the Amazon Titan family of large language models (LLMs) and offers optimized performance for key features like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) on Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, and function calling on Agents for Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock Studio is now available in public preview – Amazon Bedrock Studio offers a web-based experience to accelerate the development of generative AI applications by providing a rapid prototyping environment with key Amazon Bedrock features, including Knowledge Bases, Agents, and Guardrails. Agents for Amazon Bedrock now supports Provisioned Throughput pricing model – As agentic applications scale, they require higher input and output model throughput compared to on-demand limits. The Provisioned Throughput pricing model makes it possible to purchase model units for the specific base model. MongoDB Atlas is now available as a vector store in Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – With MongoDB Atlas vector store integration, you can build RAG solutions to securely connect your organization’s private data sources to foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports pgvector 0.7.0 – You can use the open-source PostgreSQL extension for storing vector embeddings and add retrieval-augemented generation (RAG) capability in your generative AI applications. This release includes features that increase the number of dimensions of vectors you can index, reduce index size, and includes additional support for using CPU SIMD in distance computations. Also Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Amazon RDS for Oracle. Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances are now available in new regions – These instances are optimized for generative AI workloads and are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. New Generative Engine in Amazon Polly is now generally available – The generative engine in Amazon Polly is it’s most advanced text-to-speech (TTS) model and currently includes two American English voices, Ruth and Matthew, and one British English voice, Amy. AWS Amplify Gen 2 is now generally available – AWS Amplify offers a code-first developer experience for building full-stack apps using TypeScript and enables developers to express app requirements like the data models, business logic, and authorization rules in TypeScript. AWS Amplify Gen 2 has added a number of features since the preview, including a new Amplify console with features such as custom domains, data management, and pull request (PR) previews. Amazon EMR Serverless now includes performance monitoring of Apache Spark jobs with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus – This lets you analyze, monitor, and optimize your jobs using job-specific engine metrics and information about Spark event timelines, stages, tasks, and executors. Also, Amazon EMR Studio is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Amazon MemoryDB launched two new condition keys for IAM policies – The new condition keys let you create AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies or Service Control Policies (SCPs) to enhance security and meet compliance requirements. Also, Amazon ElastiCache has updated it’s minimum TLS version to 1.2. Amazon Lightsail now offers a larger instance bundle – This includes 16 vCPUs and 64 GB memory. You can now scale your web applications and run more compute and memory-intensive workloads in Lightsail. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) adds pull through cache support for GitLab Container Registry – ECR customers can create a pull through cache rule that maps an upstream registry to a namespace in their private ECR registry. Once rule is configured, images can be pulled through ECR from GitLab Container Registry. ECR automatically creates new repositories for cached images and keeps them in-sync with the upstream registry. AWS Resilience Hub expands application resilience drift detection capabilities – This new enhancement detects changes, such as the addition or deletion of resources within the application’s input sources. 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 and blog posts that you might find interesting. Building games with LLMs – Check out this fun experiment by Banjo Obayomi to generate Super Mario levels using different LLMs on Amazon Bedrock! Troubleshooting with Amazon Q – Ricardo Ferreira walks us through how he solved a nasty data serialization problem while working with Apache Kafka, Go, and Protocol Buffers. Getting started with Amazon Q in VS Code – Check out this excellent step-by-step guide by Rohini Gaonkar that covers installing the extension for features like code completion chat, and productivity-boosting capabilities powered by generative AI. 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: Bengaluru (May 15–16), 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). 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! — Abhishek 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

April has been packed with new releases! Last week continued that trend with many new releases supporting a variety of domains such as security, analytics, devops, and many more, as well as more exciting new capabilities within generative AI. If you missed the AWS Summit London 2024, you can now watch the sessions on demand, including the keynote by Tanuja Randery, VP & Marketing Director, EMEA, and many of the break-out sessions which will continue to be released over the coming weeks. Last week’s launches Here are some of the highlights that caught my attention this week: Manual and automatic rollback from any stage in AWS CodePipeline – You can now rollback any stage, other than Source, to any previously known good state in if you use a V2 pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. You can configure automatic rollback which will use the source changes from the most recent successful pipeline execution in the case of failure, or you can initiate a manual rollback for any stage from the console, API or SDK and choose which pipeline execution you want to use for the rollback. AWS CodeArtifact now supports RubyGems – Ruby community, rejoice, you can now store your gems in AWS CodeArtifact! You can integrate it with RubyGems.org, and CodeArtifact will automatically fetch any gems requested by the client and store them locally in your CodeArtifact repository. That means that you can have a centralized place for both your first-party and public gems so developers can access their dependencies from a single source. Create a repository in AWS CodeArtifact and choose “rubygems-store” to connect your repository to RubyGems.org on the “Public upstream repositories” dropdown. Amazon EventBridge Pipes now supports event delivery through AWS PrivateLink – You can now deliver events to an Amazon EventBridge Pipes target without traversing the public internet by using AWS PrivateLink. You can poll for events in a private subnet in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without having to deploy any additional infrastructure to keep your traffic private. Amazon Bedrock launches continue. You can now run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+. And Amazon Titan Text V2 is now optimized for improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). AWS Trusted Advisor – last year we launched Trusted Advisor APIs enabling you to programmatically consume recommendations. A new API is available now that you can use to exclude resources from recommendations. Amazon EC2 – there have been two new great launches this week for EC2 users. You can now mark your AMIs as “protected” to avoid them being deregistered by accident. You can also now easily discover your active AMIs by simply describing them. Amazon CodeCatalyst – you can now view your git commit history in the CodeCatalyst console. General Availability Many new services and capabilities became generally available this week. Amazon Q in QuickSight – Amazon Q has brought generative BI to Amazon QuickSight giving you the ability to build beautiful dashboards automatically simply by using natural language and it’s now generally available. To get started, head to the Quicksight Pricing page to explore all options or start a 30-day free trial which allows up to 4 users per QuickSight account to use all the new generative AI features. With the new generative AI features enabled by Amazon Q in Amazon QuickSight you can use natural language queries to build, sort and filter dashboards. (source: AWS Documentation) Amazon Q Business (GA) and Amazon Q Apps (Preview) – Also generally available now is Amazon Q Business which we launched last year at AWS re:Invent 2023 with the ability to connect seamlessly with over 40 popular enterprise systems, including Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Gmail, and so many more. This allows Amazon Q Business to know about your business so your employees can generate content, solve problems, and take actions that are specific to your business. We have also launched support for custom plug-ins, so now you can create your own integrations with any third-party application. With general availability of Amazon Q Business we have also launched the ability to create your own custom plugins to connect to any third-party API. Another highlight of this release is the launch of Amazon Q Apps, which enables you to quickly generate an app from your conversation with Amazon Q Business, or by describing what you would like it to generate for you. All guardrails from Amazon Q Business apply, and it’s easy to share your apps with colleagues through an admin-managed library. Amazon Q Apps is in preview now. Check out Channy Yun’s post for a deeper dive into Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps, which guides you through these new features. Amazon Q Developer – you can use Q Developer to completely change your developer flow. It has all the capabilities of what was previously known as Amazon CodeWhisperer, such as Q&A, diagnosing common errors, generating code including tests, and many more. Now it has expanded, so you can use it to generate SQL, and build data integration pipelines using natural language. In preview, it can describe resources in your AWS account and help you retrieve and analyze cost data from AWS Cost Explorer. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the ‘What’s New with AWS?‘ page. Other AWS news Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that you might find interesting: AWS open source news and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes about open source projects, tools, and events from the AWS Community. Discover Claude 3 – If you’re a developer looking for a good source to get started with Claude 3 them I recommend this great post from my colleague Haowen Huang: Mastering Amazon Bedrock with Claude 3: Developer’s Guide with Demos. 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! — Matheus Guimaraes 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

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 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! While you decide which summit to attend, let’s look at the last week’s new announcements. Last week’s launches Last week was another busy one in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). Here are some launches that got my attention. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus now available in Amazon Bedrock – After Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku, two of the three state-of-the-art models of Anthropic’s Claude 3, Opus is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Cluade 3 Opus is at the forefront of generative AI, demonstrating comprehension and fluency on complicated tasks at nearly human levels. Like the rest of the Claude 3 family, Opus can process images and return text outputs. Claude 3 Opus shows an estimated twofold gain in accuracy over Claude 2.1 on difficult open-ended questions, reducing the likelihood of faulty responses. Meta Llama 3 now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – Meta Llama 3 is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that can help you accelerate your ML journey. You can deploy and use Llama 3 foundation models (FMs) with a few steps in Amazon SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the Amazon SageMaker Python SDK. Llama is available in two parameter sizes, 8B and 70B, and can be used to support a broad range of use cases, with improvements in reasoning, code generation, and instruction following. The model will be deployed in an AWS secure environment under your VPC controls, helping ensure data security. Built-in SQL extension with Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks – SageMaker Studio’s JupyterLab now includes a built-in SQL extension to discover, explore, and transform data from various sources using SQL and Python directly within the notebooks. You can now seamlessly connect to popular data services and easily browse and search databases, schemas, tables, and views. You can also preview data within the notebook interface. New features such as SQL command completion, code formatting assistance, and syntax highlighting improve developer productivity. To learn more, visit Explore data with ease: Use SQL and Text-to-SQL in Amazon SageMaker Studio JupyterLab notebooks and the SageMaker Developer Guide. AWS Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS – You can now receive granular cost visibility for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) in the AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) to analyze, optimize, and chargeback cost and usage for your Kubernetes applications. You can allocate application costs to individual business units and teams based on how Kubernetes applications consume shared Amazon EC2 CPU and memory resources. You can aggregate these costs by cluster, namespace, and other Kubernetes primitives to allocate costs to individual business units or teams. These cost details will be accessible in the CUR 24 hours after opt-in. You can use the Containers Cost Allocation dashboard to visualize the costs in Amazon QuickSight and the CUR query library to query the costs using Amazon Athena. AWS KMS automatic key rotation enhancements – AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) introduces faster options for automatic symmetric key rotation. You can now customize rotation frequency between 90 days to 7 years, invoke key rotation on demand for customer-managed AWS KMS keys, and view the rotation history for any rotated AWS KMS key. There is a nice post on the Security Blog you can visit to learn more about this feature, including a little bit of history about cryptography. Amazon Personalize automatic solution training – Amazon Personalize now offers automatic training for solutions. With automatic training, you can set a cadence for your Amazon Personalize solutions to automatically retrain using the latest data from your dataset group. This process creates a newly trained machine learning (ML) model, also known as a solution version, and maintains the relevance of Amazon Personalize recommendations for end users. Automatic training mitigates model drift and makes sure recommendations align with users’ evolving behaviors and preferences. With Amazon Personalize, you can personalize your website, app, ads, emails, and more, using the same machine learning technology used by Amazon, without requiring any prior ML experience. To get started with Amazon Personalize, visit our documentation. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. We launched existing services and instance types in additional Regions: Amazon RDS for Oracle extends support for x2iedn in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, and Osaka), Europe (Milan and Paris), US West (N. California), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2iedn instances are targeted for enterprise-class high-performance databases with high compute (up to 128 vCPUs), large memory (up to 4 TB) and storage throughput requirements (up to 256K IOPS) with a 32:1 ratio of memory to vCPU. Amazon MSK is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon Cognito is now available in Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Cognito makes it easy to add authentication, authorization, and user management to your web and mobile apps supporting sign-in with social identity providers such as Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers through standards such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. AWS Network Manager is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Network Manager reduces the operational complexity of managing global networks across AWS and on-premises locations by providing a single global view of your private network. AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. Amazon SQS announces support for FIFO dead-letter queue redrive in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) customers. Amazon EC2 R6gd instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) Region. R6gd instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), up to 512 GiB RAM, and up to 3.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage. Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows you to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more, visit Amazon SES page. AWS Glue Studio Notebooks is now available in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. AWS Glue Studio Notebooks provides interactive job authoring in AWS Glue, which helps simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. To learn more, visit Authoring code with AWS Glue Studio notebooks. Amazon S3 Access Grants is now available in in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Europe (Spain) Regions. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Access Grants map identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end-users based on their corporate identity. To learn more, visit Amazon S3 Access Grants page. Other AWS news Here are some additional news that you might find interesting: The PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon winners – The PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon concluded with over 7,650 registrants submitting 1,200 projects across four challenge categories, featuring top winners like Parable Rhythm – The Interactive Crime Thriller, Faith – Manga Creation Tools, and Arghhhh! Zombie. Participants showed remarkable creativity and technical prowess, with prizes totaling $60,000 in AWS credits. I tried the Faith – Manga Creation Tools app using my daughter Arya’s made-up stories and ideas and the result was quite impressive. Visit Jeff Barr’s post to learn more about how to try the apps for yourself. 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 cloud security in the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania for 2.5 days of immersive cloud security learning designed to help drive your business initiatives. 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). You can browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events here. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Esra 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 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

We’re just two days away from AWS Summit Sydney (April 10–11) and a month away from the AWS Summit season in Southeast Asia, starting with the AWS Summit Singapore (May 7) and the AWS Summit Bangkok (May 30). If you happen to be in Sydney, Singapore, or Bangkok around those dates, please join us. Last Week’s Launches If you haven’t read last week’s Weekly Roundup yet, Channy wrote about the AWS Chips Taste Test, a new initiative from Jeff Barr as part of April’ Fools Day. Here are some launches that caught my attention last week: New Amazon EC2 G6 instances — We announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. G6 instances deliver up to 2x higher performance for deep learning inference and graphics workloads compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn instances. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 G6 instance page. Mistral Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock — Veliswa wrote about the availability of the Mistral Large foundation model, as part of the Amazon Bedrock service. You can use Mistral Large to handle complex tasks that require substantial reasoning capabilities. In addition, Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Paris AWS Region. Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now in additional Regions — Zero-ETL integration announcements were my favourite launches last year. This Zero-ETL integration simplifies the process of transferring data between the two services, allowing customers to move data between Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift without the need for manual Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes. With this announcement, Zero-ETL integrations between Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift is now supported in 11 additional Regions. Announcing AWS Deadline Cloud — If you’re working in films, TV shows, commercials, games, and industrial design and handling complex rendering management for teams creating 2D and 3D visual assets, then you’ll be excited about AWS Deadline Cloud. This new managed service simplifies the deployment and management of render farms for media and entertainment workloads. AWS Clean Rooms ML is Now Generally Available — Last year, I wrote about the preview of AWS Clean Rooms ML. In that post, I elaborated a new capability of AWS Clean Rooms that helps you and your partners apply machine learning (ML) models on your collective data without copying or sharing raw data with each other. Now, AWS Clean Rooms ML is available for you to use. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports private network policies for OpenSearch Serverless — Here’s exciting news for you who are building with Amazon Bedrock. Now, you can implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock using Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (OSS) collections that have a private network policy. Amazon EKS extended support for Kubernetes versions now generally available — If you’re running Kubernetes version 1.21 and higher, with this Extended Support for Kubernetes, you can stay up-to-date with the latest Kubernetes features and security improvements on Amazon EKS. AWS Lambda Adds Support for Ruby 3.3 — Coding in Ruby? Now, AWS Lambda supports Ruby 3.3 as its runtime. This update allows you to take advantage of the latest features and improvements in the Ruby language. Amazon EventBridge Console Enhancements — The Amazon EventBridge console has been updated with new features and improvements, making it easier for you to manage your event-driven applications with a better user experience. Private Access to the AWS Management Console in Commercial Regions — If you need to restrict access to personal AWS accounts from the company network, you can use AWS Management Console Private Access. With this launch, you can use AWS Management Console Private Access in all commercial AWS Regions. From community.aws The community.aws is a home for us, builders, to share our learnings with building on AWS. Here’s my Top 3 posts from last week: 14 LLMs fought 314 Street Fighter matches. Here’s who won by Banjo Obayomi Build an AI image catalogue! – Claude 3 Haiku by Alan Blockley Following the path of Architecture as Code by Christian Bonzelet Other AWS News Here are some additional news items, open-source projects, and Twitch shows that you might find interesting: Build On Generative AI – Join Tiffany and Darko to learn more about generative AI, see their demos and discuss different aspects of generative AI with the guest speakers. Streaming every Monday on Twitch, 9:00 AM US PT. AWS open source news and updates – If you’re looking for various open-source projects and tools from the AWS community, please read the AWS open-source newsletter maintained by my colleague, Ricardo. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these 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: Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 10–11), London (April 24), Singapore (May 7), Berlin (May 15–16), Seoul (May 16–17), Hong Kong (May 22), Milan (May 23), Dubai (May 29), Thailand (May 30), Stockholm (June 4), and Madrid (June 5). AWS re:Inforce – Explore cloud security in the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania for two-and-a-half days of immersive cloud security learning designed to help drive your business initiatives. 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: Poland (April 11), Bay Area (April 12), Kenya (April 20), and Turkey (May 18). You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Donnie 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

Today is April Fool’s Day. About 10 years ago, some tech companies would joke about an idea that was thought to be fun and unfeasible on April 1st, to the delight of readers. Jeff Barr has also posted seemingly far-fetched ideas on this blog in the past, and some of these have surprisingly come true! Here are examples: Year Joke Reality 2010 Introducing QC2 – the Quantum Compute Cloud, a production-ready quantum computer to solve certain types of math and logic problems with breathtaking speed. In 2019, we launched Amazon Braket, a fully managed service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to begin experimenting with computers from multiple quantum hardware providers in a single place. 2011 Announcing AWS $NAME, a scalable event service to find and automatically integrate with your systems on the cloud, on premises, and even your house and room. In 2019, we introduced Amazon EventBridge to make it easy for you to integrate your own AWS applications with third-party applications. If you use AWS IoT Events, you can monitor and respond to events at scale from your IoT devices at home. 2012 New Amazon EC2 Fresh Servers to deliver a fresh (physical) EC2 server in 15 minutes using atmospheric delivery and communucation from a fleet of satellites. In 2021, we launched AWS Outposts Server, 1U/2U physical servers with built-in AWS services. In 2023, Project Kuiper completed successful tests of an optical mesh network in low Earth orbit. Now, we only need to develop satellite warehouse and atmospheric re-entry technology to follow Amazon PrimeAir’s drone delivery. 2013 PC2 – The New Punched Card Cloud, a new mf (mainframe) instance family, Mainframe Machine Images (MMI), tape storage, and punched card interfaces for mainframe computers used from the 1970s to ’80s. In 2022, we launched AWS Mainframe Modernization to help you modernize your mainframe applications and deploy them to AWS fully managed runtime environments. Jeff returns! This year, we have AWS “Chips” Taste Test for him to indulge in, drawing unique parallels between chip flavors and silicon innovations. He compared the taste of “Golden Nacho Cheese,” “Al Chili Lime,” “BBQ Training Wheels”, and “Ranch Fusion” with AWS Graviton, AWS Inferentia, AWS Trainium, and AWS Nitro Security Chip. What’s your favorite? Watch a fun video in the LinkedIn and X post of AWS social media channels. Last week’s launches If we stay curious, keep learning, and insist on high standards, we will continue to see more ideas turn into reality. The same goes for the generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) world. Here are some launches that utilize generative AI technology this week. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model (FM) is now generally available on Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock to connect internal data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock support metadata filtering, which improves retrieval accuracy by ensuring the documents are relevant to the query. You can narrow search results by specifying which documents to include or exclude from a query, resulting in more relevant responses generated by FMs such as Claude 3 Sonnet. Finally, you can customize prompts and number of retrieval results in Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. With custom prompts, you can tailor the prompt instructions by adding context, user input, or output indicator(s), for the model to generate responses that more closely match your use case needs. You can now control the amount of information needed to generate a final response by adjusting the number of retrieved passages. To learn more these new features, visit Knowledge bases for Amazon Bedrock in the AWS documentation. Amazon Connect Contact Lens – At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed a generative AI capability to summarize long customer conversations into succinct, coherent, and context-rich contact summaries to help improve contact quality and agent performance. These generative AI–powered post-contact summaries are now available in Amazon Connect Contact Lens. Amazon DataZone – At AWS re:Invent 2023, we also previewed a generative AI–based capability to generate comprehensive business data descriptions and context and include recommendations on analytical use cases. These generative AI–powered recommendations for descriptions are now available in Amazon DataZone. There are also other important launches you shouldn’t miss: A new Local Zone in Miami, Florida – AWS Local Zones are an AWS infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large populations, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists. You can now use a new Local Zone in Miami, Florida, to run applications that require single-digit millisecond latency, such as real-time gaming, hybrid migrations, and live video streaming. Enable the new Local Zone in Miami (use1-mia2-az1) from the Zones tab in the Amazon EC2 console settings to get started. New Amazon EC2 C7gn metal instance – You can use AWS Graviton based new C7gn bare metal instances to run applications that benefit from deep performance analysis tools, specialized workloads that require direct access to bare metal infrastructure, legacy workloads not supported in virtual environments, and licensing-restricted business-critical applications. The EC2 C7gn metal size comes with 64 vCPUs and 128 GiB of memory. AWS Batch multi-container jobs – You can use multi-container jobs in AWS Batch, making it easier and faster to run large-scale simulations in areas like autonomous vehicles and robotics. With the ability to run multiple containers per job, you get the advanced scaling, scheduling, and cost optimization offered by AWS Batch, and you can use modular containers representing different components like 3D environments, robot sensors, or monitoring sidecars. Amazon Guardduty EC2 Runtime Monitoring – We are announcing the general availability of Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring to expand threat detection coverage for EC2 instances at runtime and complement the anomaly detection that GuardDuty already provides by continuously monitoring VPC Flow Logs, DNS query logs, and AWS CloudTrail management events. You now have visibility into on-host, OS-level activities and container-level context into detected threats. GitLab support for AWS CodeBuild – You can now use GitLab and GitLab self-managed as the source provider for your CodeBuild projects. You can initiate builds from changes in source code hosted in your GitLab repositories. To get started with CodeBuild’s new source providers, visit the AWS CodeBuild User Guide. Retroactive support for AWS cost allocation tags – You can enable AWS cost allocation tags retroactively for up to 12 months. Previously, when you activated resource tags for cost allocation purposes, the tags only took effect prospectively. Submit a backfill request, specifying the duration of time you want the cost allocation tags to be backfilled. Once the backfill is complete, the cost and usage data from prior months will be tagged with the current cost allocation tags. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Other AWS News Some other updates and news about generative AI that you might have missed: Amazon and Anthropic’s AI investiment – Read the latest milestone in our strategic collaboration and investment with Anthropic. Now, Anthropic is using AWS as its primary cloud provider and will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for mission-critical workloads, including safety research and future FM development. Earlier this month, we announced access to Anthropic’s most powerful FM, Claude 3, on Amazon Bedrock. We announced availability of Sonnet on March 4 and Haiku on March 13. To learn more, watch the video introducing Claude on Amazon Bedrock. Virtual building assistant built on Amazon Bedrock – BrainBox AI announced the launch of ARIA (Artificial Responsive Intelligent Assistant) powered by Amazon Bedrock. ARIA is designed to enhance building efficiency by assimilating seamlessly into the day-to-day processes related to building management. To learn more, read the full customer story and watch the video on how to reduce a building’s CO2 footprint with ARIA. Solar models available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – Upstage Solar is a large language model (LLM) 100 percent pre-trained with Amazon SageMaker that outperforms and uses its compact size and powerful track record to specialize in purpose training, making it versatile across languages, domains, and tasks. Now, Solar Mini is available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. To learn more, watch how to deploy Solar models in SageMaker JumpStart. 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. Last week’s highlight was news that Linux Foundation launched Valkey community, an open source alternative to the Redis in-memory, NoSQL data store. 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: Paris (April 3), Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 10–11), London (April 24), Berlin (May 15–16), and Seoul (May 16–17), Hong Kong (May 22), Milan (May 23), Dubai (May 29), Stockholm (June 4), and Madrid (June 5). AWS re:Inforce – Explore cloud security in the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania for two-and-a-half days of immersive cloud security learning designed to help drive your business initiatives. Read the story from AWS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Chris Betz about a bit of what you can expect at re:Inforce. 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: Mumbai (April 6), Poland (April 11), Bay Area (April 12), Kenya (April 20), and Turkey (May 18). You can browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review! — Channy This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS. 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. 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Storage, storage, storage! Last week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of fun! The 4-hour live stream was packed with puns, pie recipes powered by PartyRock, demos, code, and discussions about generative AI and Amazon S3. AWS Pi Day 2024 — Twitch live stream on March 14, 2024 In case you missed the live stream, you can watch the recording. We’ll also update the AWS Pi Day 2024 post on community.aws this week with show notes and session clips. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now available in Amazon Bedrock — Anthropic recently introduced the Claude 3 family of foundation models (FMs), comprising Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and most compact model in the family, is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Check out Channy’s post for more details. In addition, my colleague Mike shows how to get started with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on community.aws. Up to 40 percent faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation — AWS CloudFormation now creates stacks up to 40 percent faster and has a new event called CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE. With this event, CloudFormation begins parallel creation of dependent resources within a stack, speeding up the whole process. The new event also gives users more control to shortcut their stack creation process in scenarios where a resource consistency check is unnecessary. To learn more, read this AWS DevOps Blog post. Amazon SageMaker Canvas extends its model registry integration — SageMaker Canvas has extended its model registry integration to include time series forecasting models and models fine-tuned through SageMaker JumpStart. Users can now register these models to the SageMaker Model Registry with just a click. This enhancement expands the model registry integration to all problem types supported in Canvas, such as regression/classification tabular models and CV/NLP models. It streamlines the deployment of machine learning (ML) models to production environments. Check the Developer Guide for more information. 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: 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 US PT, my colleagues Tiffany and Darko discuss different aspects of generative AI and invite guest speakers to demo their work. In today’s episode, guest Martyn Kilbryde showed how to build a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Check out show notes and the full list of episodes on community.aws. Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch — The Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now lets PyTorch Lightning users save model checkpoints directly to Amazon S3. Saving PyTorch Lightning model checkpoints is up to 40 percent faster with the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch than writing to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance storage. You can now also save, load, and delete checkpoints directly from PyTorch Lightning training jobs to Amazon S3. Check out the open source project on GitHub. 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 at NVIDIA GTC 2024 — The NVIDIA GTC 2024 developer conference is taking place this week (March 18–21) in San Jose, CA. If you’re around, visit AWS at booth #708 to explore generative AI demos and get inspired by AWS, AWS Partners, and customer experts on the latest offerings in generative AI, robotics, and advanced computing at the in-booth theatre. Check out the AWS sessions and request 1:1 meetings. AWS Summits — It’s AWS Summit season again! The first one is 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, PA. 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! — Antje 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

Last Friday was International Women’s Day (IWD), and I want to take a moment to appreciate the amazing ladies in the cloud computing space that are breaking the glass ceiling by reaching technical leadership positions and inspiring others to go and build, as our CTO Werner Vogels says. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon Bedrock – Now supports Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundational model. Claude 3 Sonnet is two times faster and has the same level of intelligence as Anthropic’s highest-performing models, Claude 2 and Claude 2.1. My favorite characteristic is that Sonnet is better at producing JSON outputs, making it simpler for developers to build applications. It also offers vision capabilities. You can learn more about this foundation model (FM) in the post that Channy wrote early last week. AWS re:Post – Launched last week! AWS re:Post Live is a weekly Twitch livestream show that provides a way for the community to reach out to experts, ask questions, and improve their skills. The show livestreams every Monday at 11 AM PT. Amazon CloudWatch – Now streams daily metrics on CloudWatch metric streams. You can use metric streams to send a stream of near real-time metrics to a destination of your choice. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – Announced the general availability of new metal instances, C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd. These instances have up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are built on top of the AWS Nitro System. AWS WAF – Now supports configurable evaluation time windows for request aggregation with rate-based rules. Previously, AWS WAF was fixed to a 5-minute window when aggregating and evaluating the rules. Now you can select windows of 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes, depending on your application use case. AWS Partners – Last week, we announced the AWS Generative AI Competency Partners. This new specialization features AWS Partners that have shown technical proficiency and a track record of successful projects with generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered by AWS. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Other AWS news Some other updates and news that you may have missed: One of the articles that caught my attention recently compares different design approaches for building serverless microservices. This article, written by Luca Mezzalira and Matt Diamond, compares the three most common designs for serverless workloads and explains the benefits and challenges of using one over the other. And if you are interested in the serverless space, you shouldn’t miss the Serverless Office Hours, which airs live every Tuesday at 10 AM PT. Join the AWS Serverless Developer Advocates for a weekly chat on the latest from the serverless space. The Official AWS Podcast – Listen each week for updates on the latest AWS news and deep dives into exciting use cases. There are also official AWS podcasts in several languages. Check out the ones in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. AWS Open Source News and Updates – This is a newsletter curated by my colleague Ricardo to bring you the latest open source projects, posts, events, and more. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Summit season is about to start. The first ones are Paris (April 3), Amsterdam (April 9), and London (April 24). AWS Summits are free events that you can attend in person and learn about the latest in AWS technology. GOTO x AWS EDA Day London 2024 – On May 14, AWS partners with GOTO bring to you the event-driven architecture (EDA) day conference. At this conference, you will get to meet experts in the EDA space and listen to very interesting talks from customers, experts, and AWS. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events here. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review! — Marcia 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

This has been a busy week – we introduced a new kind of Amazon CloudFront infrastructure, more efficient ways to analyze data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and new generative AI capabilities. Last week’s launches Here’s what got my attention: Amazon Bedrock – Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7B and Mistral 7B foundation models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. More details in Donnie’s post. Here’s a deep dive into Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B models, by my colleague Mike. Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – With hybrid search support, you can improve the relevance of retrieved results, especially for keyword searches. More information and examples in this post on the AWS Machine Learning Blog. Amazon CloudFront – We announced the availability of embedded Points of Presence (POPs), a new type of CloudFront infrastructure deployed closest to end viewers, within internet service provider (ISP) and mobile network operator (MNO) networks. Embedded POPs are custom-built to deliver large scale live-stream video, video-on-demand (VOD), and game downloads. Today, CloudFront has 600+ embedded POPs deployed across 200+ cities globally. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams – To help you analyze and visualize the data in your streams in real-time, you can now run SQL queries with one click in the AWS Management Console. Amazon EventBridge – API destinations now supports content-type header customization. By defining your own content-type, you can unlock more HTTP targets for API destinations, including support for CloudEvents. Read more in this X/Twitter thread by Nik, principal engineer at AWS Lambda. Amazon MWAA – You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.8 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). More in this AWS Big Data blog post. Amazon CloudWatch Logs – With CloudWatch Logs support for IPv6, you can simplify your network stack by running Amazon CloudWatch log groups on a dual-stack network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. You can find more information on AWS services that support IPv6 in the documentation. SQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB – As you use this client-side application to help you visualize and build scalable, high-performance data models, you can now clone tables between development environments. With this feature, you can develop and test your code with Amazon DynamoDB tables in the same state across multiple development environments. AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) – The new AWS AppConfig Level 2 (L2) constructs simplify provisioning of AWS AppConfig resources, including feature flags and dynamic configuration data. Amazon Location Service – You can now use the authentication libraries for iOS and Android platforms to simplify the integration of Amazon Location Service into mobile apps. The libraries support API key and Amazon Cognito authentication. Amazon SageMaker – You can now accelerate Amazon SageMaker Model Training using the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class to gain faster load times for training data, checkpoints, and model outputs. S3 Express One Zone is purpose-built to deliver the fastest cloud object storage for performance-critical applications, and delivers consistent single-digit millisecond request latency and high throughput. Amazon Data Firehose – Now supports message extraction for CloudWatch Logs. CloudWatch log records use a nested JSON structure, and the message in each record is embedded within header information. It’s now easier to filter out the header information and deliver only the embedded message to the destination, reducing the cost of subsequent processing and storage. Amazon OpenSearch – Terraform now supports Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion deployments, a fully managed data ingestion tier for Amazon OpenSearch Service that allows you to ingest and process petabyte-scale data before indexing it in Amazon OpenSearch-managed clusters and serverless collections. Read more in this AWS Big Data blog post. AWS Mainframe Modernization – AWS Blu Age Runtime is now available for seamless deployment on Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate to run modernized applications in serverless containers. AWS Local Zones – A new Local Zone in Atlanta helps applications that require single-digit millisecond latency for use cases such as real-time gaming, hybrid migrations, media and entertainment content creation, live video streaming, engineering simulations, and more. 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, programs, and news items that you might find interesting. The PartyRock Hackathon is closing this month, and there is still time to join and make apps without code! Here’s the screenshot of a quick app that I built to help me plan what to do when I visit a new place. Use RAG for drug discovery with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock – A very interesting use case for generative AI. Here’s a complete solution to build a robust text-to-SQL solution generating complex queries, self-correcting, and querying diverse data sources. A nice overview of .NET 8 Support on AWS, the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of cross-platform .NET. Introducing the AWS WAF traffic overview dashboard – A new tool to help you make informed decisions about your security posture for applications protected by AWS WAF. Some tips on how to improve the speed and cost of high performance computing (HPC) deployment with Mountpoint for Amazon S3, an open source file client that you can use to mount an S3 bucket on your compute instances, accessing it as a local file system. 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 You can feel it in the air–the AWS Summits season is coming back! The first ones will be in Europe, you can join us in Paris (April 3), Amsterdam (April 9), and London (April 24). On March 12, you can meet public sector industry leaders and AWS experts at the AWS Public Sector Symposium in Brussels. AWS Innovate are an online events designed to help you develop the right skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications. AWS Innovate Generative AI + Data Edition for Americas is on March 14. It follows the ones for Asia Pacific & Japan and EMEA that we held in February. There are still a few AWS Community re:Invent re:Cap events organized by volunteers from AWS User Groups and AWS Cloud Clubs around the world to learn about the latest announcements from AWS re:Invent. 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! — 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

With all the generative AI announcements at AWS re:invent 2023, I’ve committed to dive deep into this technology and learn as much as I can. If you are too, I’m happy that among other resources available, the AWS community also has a space that I can access for generative AI tools and guides. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue (Preview) – Now you can use natural language to ask Amazon Q to author jobs, troubleshoot issues, and answer questions about AWS Glue and data integration. Amazon Q was launched in preview at AWS re:invent 2023, and is a generative AI–powered assistant to help you solve problems, generate content, and take action. General availability of CDK Migrate – CDK Migrate is a component of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that enables you to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates, previously deployed CloudFormation stacks, or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into a CDK application. This feature was launched alongside the CloudFormation IaC Generator to give you an end-to-end experience that enables you to create an IaC configuration based off a resource, as well as its relationships. You can expect the IaC generator to have a huge impact for a common use case we’ve seen. 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, programs, and news items that you might find interesting: Amazon API Gateway processed over 100 trillion API requests in 2023, demonstrating the growing demand for API-driven applications. API Gateway is a fully-managed API management service. Customers from all industry verticals told us they’re adopting API Gateway for multiple reasons. First, its ability to scale to meet the demands of even the most high-traffic applications. Second, its fully-managed, serverless architecture, which eliminates the need to manage any infrastructure, and frees customers to focus on their core business needs. Join the PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon by AWS. This is a challenge for you to get hands-on building generative AI-powered apps. You’ll use Amazon PartyRock, an Amazon Bedrock Playground, as a fast and fun way to learn about Prompt Engineering and Foundational Models (FMs) to build a functional app with generative AI. 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 Whether you’re in the Americas, Asia Pacific & Japan, or EMEA region, there’s an upcoming AWS Innovate Online event that fits your timezone. Innovate Online events are free, online, and designed to inspire and educate you about AWS. 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. These events are designed to educate you about AWS products and services and help you develop the skills needed to build, deploy, and operate your infrastructure and applications. Find an AWS Summit near you and register or set a notification to know when registration opens for a Summit that interests you. AWS Community re:Invent re:Caps – Join a Community re:Cap event organized by volunteers from AWS User Groups and AWS Cloud Clubs around the world to learn about the latest announcements from AWS re:Invent. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. 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

My memories of Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2023 are still fresh even when I’m currently wrapping up my activities in Jakarta after participating in AWS Community Day Indonesia. It was a great experience, from delivering chalk talks and having thoughtful discussions with AWS service teams, to meeting with AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and AWS User Group leaders. AWS re:Invent brings the global AWS community together to learn, connect, and be inspired by innovation. For me, that spirit of connection is what makes AWS re:Invent always special. Here’s a quick look of my highlights at AWS re:Invent and AWS Community Day Indonesia: If you missed AWS re:Invent, you can watch the keynotes and sessions on demand. Also, check out the AWS News Editorial Team’s Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2023 for all the major launches. Recent AWS launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention in the past two weeks: Query MySQL and PostgreSQL with AWS Amplify – In this post, Channy wrote how you can now connect your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to AWS Amplify with just a few clicks. It generates a GraphQL API to query your database tables using AWS CDK. Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service – With this self-service solution, you can smoothly migrate from your self-managed clusters to Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections. AWS Lambda simplifies connectivity to Amazon RDS and RDS Proxy – Now you can connect your AWS Lambda to Amazon RDS or RDS proxy using the AWS Lambda console. With a guided workflow, this improvement helps to minimize complexities and efforts to quickly launch a database instance and correctly connect a Lambda function. New no-code dashboard application to visualize IoT data – With this announcement, you can now visualize and interact with operational data from AWS IoT SiteWise using a new open source Internet of Things (IoT) dashboard. Amazon Rekognition improves Face Liveness accuracy and user experience – This launch provides higher accuracy in detecting spoofed faces for your face-based authentication applications. AWS Lambda supports additional concurrency metrics for improved quota monitoring – Add CloudWatch metrics for your Lambda quotas, to improve visibility into concurrency limits. AWS Malaysia now supports 3D-Secure authentication – This launch enables 3DS2 transaction authentication required by banks and payment networks, facilitating your secure online payments. Announcing AWS CloudFormation template generation for Amazon EventBridge Pipes – With this announcement, you can now streamline the deployment of your EventBridge resources with CloudFormation templates, accelerating event-driven architecture (EDA) development. Enhanced data protection for CloudWatch Logs – With the enhanced data protection, CloudWatch Logs helps identify and redact sensitive data in your logs, preventing accidental exposure of personal data. Send SMS via Amazon SNS in Asia Pacific – With this announcement, now you can use SMS messaging across Asia Pacific from the Jakarta Region. Lambda adds support for Python 3.12 – This launch brings the latest Python version to your Lambda functions. CloudWatch Synthetics upgrades Node.js runtime – Now you can use Node.js 16.1 runtimes for your canary functions. Manage EBS Volumes for your EC2 fleets – This launch simplifies attaching and managing EBS volumes across your EC2 fleets. See you next year! This is the last AWS Weekly Roundup for this year, and we’d like to thank you for being our wonderful readers. We’ll be back to share more launches for you on January 8, 2024. Happy holidays! — Donnie View the full article

Last week I saw an astonishing 160+ new service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts for re:Invent to introduce awesome launches with service teams for your reading pleasure. Jeff Barr shared The Road to AWS re:Invent 2023 to explain our blogging journey and process. Please stay tuned in the next week! Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: Amazon EC2 DL2q instances – New DL2q instances are powered by Qualcomm AI 100 Standard accelerators and are the first to feature Qualcomm’s AI technology in the public cloud. With eight Qualcomm AI 100 Standard accelerators and 128 GiB of total accelerator memory, you can run popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications and extend to edge devices across smartphones, autonomous driving, personal compute, and extended reality headsets to develop and validate these AI workloads before deploying. PartyRock for Amazon Bedrock – We introduced PartyRock, a fun and intuitive hands-on, generative AI app-building playground powered by Amazon Bedrock. You can experiment, learn all about prompt engineering, build mini-apps, and share them with your friends—all without writing any code or creating an AWS account. You also can now access the Meta Llama 2 Chat 13B foundation model and Cohere Command Light, Embed English, and multilingual models for Amazon Bedrock. AWS Amplify celebrates its sixth birthday – We announced six new launches; a new documentation site, support for Next.js 14 with our hosting and JavaScript library, added custom token providers and an automatic React Native social sign-in update to Amplify Auth, new ChangePassword and DeleteUser account settings components, and updated all Amplify UI packages to use new Amplify JavaScript v6. You can also use wildcard subdomains when using a custom domain with your Amplify application deployed to AWS Amplify Hosting. Also check out other News Blog posts about major launches published in the past week: AWS Glue Data Catalog supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables AWS Audit Manager supports first third-party GRC integration AWS Resource Explorer supports multi-account search Amazon EBS Snapshot supports locking individual snapshots for better compliance Amazon Polly supports three new voices powered by a new long-form engine Other AWS service launches Here are some other bundled feature launches per AWS service: Amazon Athena – You can use a new cost-based optimizer (CBO) to enhance query performance based on table and column statistics, collected by AWS Glue Data Catalog and Athena JDBC 3.x driver, a new alternative that supports almost all authentication plugins. You can also use Amazon EMR Studio to develop and run interactive queries on Amazon Athena. Amazon CloudWatch – You can use a new CloudWatch metric called EBS Stalled I/O Check to monitor the health of your Amazon EBS volumes, the regular expression for Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail filter pattern syntax to search and match relevant log events, observability of SAP Sybase ASE database in CloudWatch Application Insights, and up to two stats commands in a Log Insights query to perform aggregations on the results. Amazon CodeCatalyst – You can connect to a Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) from CodeCatalyst Workflows, provision infrastructure using Terraform within CodeCatalyst Workflows, access CodeCatalyst with your workforce identities configured in IAM Identity Center, and create teams made up of members of the CodeCatalyst space. Amazon Connect – You can use a pre-built queue performance dashboard and Contact Lens conversational analytics dashboard to view and compare real-time and historical aggregated queue performance. You can use quick responses for chats, previously written formats such as typing in ‘/#greet’ to insert a personalized response, and scanning attachments to detect malware or other unwanted content. AWS Glue – AWS Glue for Apache Spark added new six database connectors: Teradata, SAP HANA, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Vertica, and MongoDB, as well as the native connectivity to Amazon OpenSearch Service. AWS Lambda – You can see single pane view of metrics, logs, and traces in the AWS Lambda console and advanced logging controls to natively capture logs in JSON structured format. You can view the SAM template on the Lambda console and export the function’s configuration to AWS Application Composer. AWS Lambda also supports Java 21 and NodeJS 20 versions built on the new Amazon Linux 2023 runtime. AWS Local Zones in Dallas – You can enable the new Local Zone in Dallas, Texas, us-east-1-dfw-2a, with Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i, R6i, C6gn, and M6g instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect in this new Local Zone to support a broad set of workloads at the edge. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) – You can standardize access control to Kafka resources using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and build Kafka clients for Amazon MSK Serverless written in all programming languages. These are open source client helper libraries and code samples for popular languages, including Java, Python, Go, and JavaScript. Also, Amazon MSK now supports an enhanced version of Apache Kafka 3.6.0 that offers generally available Tiered Storage and automatically sends you storage capacity alerts when you are at risk of exhausting your storage. Amazon OpenSearch Service Ingestion – You can migrate your data from Elasticsearch version 7.x clusters to the latest versions of Amazon OpenSearch Service and use persistent buffering to protect the durability of incoming data. Amazon RDS –Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports creating active-active clusters using the Group Replication plugin, upgrading MySQL 5.7 snapshots to MySQL 8.0, and Innovation Release version of MySQL 8.1. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server extends point-in-time recovery support for up to 1,000 databases, supports Service Master Key Retention to use transparent data encryption (TDE), table- and column-level encryption, DBMail and linked servers, and use SQL Server Developer edition with the bring your own media (BYOM). Additionally, Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy. AWS Partner Central – You can use an improved user experience in AWS Partner Central to build and promote your offerings and the new Investments tab in the Partner Analytics Dashboard to gain actionable insights. You can now link accounts and associated users between Partner Central and AWS Marketplace and use an enhanced co-sell experience with APN Customer Engagements (ACE) manager. Amazon QuickSight – You can programmatically manage user access and custom permissions support for roles to restrict QuickSight functionality to the QuickSight account for IAM Identity Center and Active Directory using APIs. You can also use shared restricted folders, a Contributor role and support for data source asset types in folders and the Custom Week Start feature, an addition designed to enhance the data analysis experience for customers across diverse industries and social contexts. AWS Trusted Advisor – You can use new APIs to programmatically access Trusted Advisor best practices checks, recommendations, and prioritized recommendations and 37 new Amazon RDS checks that provide best practices guidance by analyzing DB instance configuration, usage, and performance data. There’s a lot more launch news that I haven’t covered. See AWS What’s New for more details. See you virtually in AWS re:Invent Next week we’ll hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community in Las Vegas. If you come, check out the agenda, session catalog, and attendee guides before your departure. If you’re not able to attend re:Invent in person this year, we’re offering the option to livestream our Keynotes and Innovation Talks. With the registration for online pass, you will have access to on-demand keynote, Innovation Talks, and selected breakout sessions after the event. – Channy View the full article

This week, it was really difficult to choose what to recap here because, as we’re getting closer to AWS re:Invent, service teams are delivering new capabilities at an incredible pace. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: Amazon Aurora – Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available. Get a walk-through in our AWS News Blog post. Here’s a recap of data integration innovations at AWS. Optimized reads for Aurora PostgreSQL provide up to 8x improved query latency and up to 30 percent cost savings for I/O-intensive applications. Here’s more of a deep dive from the AWS Database Blog. Amazon EBS – You can now block public sharing of EBS snapshots. Read more about how that works in the launch post. Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager – Support for pre- and post-script automation of EBS snapshots simplifies application-consistent snapshots. Here’s how to use it with Windows applications. AWS Health – There’s now improved visibility into planned lifecycle events like end of standard support of a Kubernetes version in Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS certificate rotations, and end of support for other open source software. Here’s how it works. Amazon CloudFront – Unified security dashboard to enable, monitor, and manage common security protections for your web applications directly from the CloudFront console. Read more at Introducing CloudFront Security Dashboard, a Unified CDN and Security Experience. Amazon Connect – Reduced outbound telephony pricing across Europe and South America. It’s also easier now to deliver persistent chat experiences for end users. AWS Lambda – Busy week for the Lambda team! There is now support for Amazon Linux 2023 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. More details in this Compute Blog post. There’s also enhanced auto scaling for Kafka event sources (the Compute Blog has a post with more details) and faster polling scale-up rate for Amazon SQS events when AWS Lambda functions are configured with SQS. AWS CodeBuild – Now supports AWS Lambda compute to build and test software packages. Read about how it works in this post. Amazon SQS – Now supports JSON protocol to reduce latency and client-side CPU usage. More in the launch post. There’s also a new integration for Amazon SQS in the Amazon EventBridge Pipes console (the week before that, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams was also integrated into the EventBridge Pipes console). Amazon SNS – FIFO topics now support 3,000 messages per second by default. Amazon EventBridge – There are 22 additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics to help you monitor the performance of your event buses. More info in this post from the AWS Compute Blog. Amazon OpenSearch Service – Neural search makes it easier to create and manage semantic search applications. Amazon Timestream – The UNLOAD statement simplifies exporting time-series data for additional insights. Amazon Comprehend – New trust and safety features with toxicity detection and prompt safety classification. Read how to apply that to generative AI applications using LangChain. AWS App Runner – Now available in London, Mumbai, and Paris AWS Regions. AWS Application Migration Service – Support for AWS App2Container replatforming of .NET and Java based applications. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS – Now available in ten additional AWS Regions with support for additional deployment types in seven Regions. AWS Global Accelerator – There’s now IPv6 support for Network Load Balancer (NLB) endpoints. It was already available for Application Load Balancers (ALBs) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Amazon GuardDuty – New machine learning (ML) capability enhances threat detection for Amazon EKS. Other AWS news Some other news and blog posts that you might have missed: AWS Local Zones Credit Program – If you have low-latency or data residency requirements for your application, our Local Zones Credit Program can get you started. Fill out our form to receive $500 in AWS credits and apply it to a Local Zones workload. Amazon CodeWhisperer – Customizing coding companions for organizations and optimizing for sustainability. Sharing what we have learned – Creating a correction of errors document to understand what went wrong and what would be done to prevent it from happening again. Good tips for containers – Securing API endpoints using Amazon API Gateway and Amazon VPC Lattice. Another post in this amazing series – Let’s Architect! Tools for developers. A few highlights from Community.AWS: From MVC to Modern Web Frameworks Reduce Stress and Get Your Fridays Back with Observability and OpenTelemetry Sustainable Software Development Life Cycle (S-SDLC) Don’t miss the latest AWS open source newsletter by my colleague Ricardo. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Uruguay (November 14), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia on November 17–18), and Guatemala (November 18). AWS re:Invent (November 27 – December 1) – Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. Browse the session catalog and attendee guides and check out the highlights for generative AI. In the AWS re:Invent Builder Hub you can find developer-focused sessions, events, competitions, and content. Here you can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events. And that’s all from me for this week. We’re now taking a break. The next weekly roundup will be after re:Invent! — Danilo This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most of the time. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon EC2 – Amazon EC2 announced Capacity Blocks for ML. This means that you can now reserve GPU compute capacity for your short-duration ML workloads. Learn more about this launch on the feature page and announcement blog post. Finch – Finch is now generally available. Finch is an open source tool for local container development on macOS (using Intel or Apple Silicon). It provides a command line developer tool for building, running, and publishing Linux containers on macOS. Learn more about Finch in this blog post written by Phil Estes or on the Finch website. AWS X-Ray – AWS X-Ray now supports W3C format trace IDs for distributed tracing. AWS X-Ray supports trace IDs generated through OpenTelemetry or any other framework that conforms to the W3C Trace Context specification. Amazon Translate – Amazon Translate introduces a brevity customization to reduce translation output length. This is a new feature that you can enable in your real-time translations where you need a shorter translation to meet caption size limits. This translation is not literal, but it will preserve the underlying message. AWS IAM – IAM increased the actions last accessed to 60 more services. This functionality is very useful when fine-tuning the permissions of the roles, identifying unused permissions, and granting the least amount of permissions that your roles need. AWS IAM Access Analyzer – IAM Access Analyzer policy generator expanded support to identify over 200 AWS services to help you create fine-grained policies based on your AWS CloudTrail access activity. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Other AWS news Some other news and blog posts that you may have missed: AWS Compute Blog – Daniel Wirjo and Justin Plock wrote a very interesting article about how you can send and receive webhooks on AWS using different AWS serverless services. This is a good read if you are working with webhooks on your application, as it not only shows you how to build these solutions but also what considerations you should have when building them. AWS Storage Blog – Bimal Gajjar and Andrew Peace wrote a very useful blog post about how to handle event ordering and duplicate events with Amazon S3 Event Notifications. This is a common challenge for many customers. Amazon Science Blog – David Fan wrote an article about how to build better foundation models for video representation. This article is based on a paper that Prime Video presented at a conference about this topic. The Official AWS Podcast – Listen each week for updates on the latest AWS news and deep dives into exciting use cases. There are also official AWS podcasts in several languages. Check out the ones in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. AWS open-source news and updates – This is a newsletter curated by my colleague Ricardo to bring you the latest open source projects, posts, events, and more. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Ecuador (November 7), Mexico (November 11), Montevideo (November 14), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia on November 17–18), and Guatemala (November 18). AWS re:Invent (November 27–December 1) – Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. Browse the session catalog and attendee guides and check out the highlights for generative artificial intelligence (AI). That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Marcia 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