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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

It’s less than a month to AWS re:Invent, but interesting news doesn’t slow down in the meantime. This week is my turn to help keep you up to date! Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: AWS re:Post – With re:Post, you have access to a community of experts that helps you become even more successful on AWS. With Selections, community members can organize knowledge in an aggregated view to create learning paths or curated content sets. Amazon SNS – First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics now support the option to store and replay messages without needing to provision a separate archival resource. This improves the durability of your event-driven applications and can help you recover from downstream failure scenarios. Find out more in this AWS Comput Blog post – Archiving and replaying messages with Amazon SNS FIFO. Also, you can now use custom data identifiers to protect not only common sensitive data (such as names, addresses, and credit card numbers) but also domain-specific sensitive data, such as your company’s employee IDs. You can find additional info on this feature in this AWS Security blog post – Mask and redact sensitive data published to Amazon SNS using managed and custom data identifiers. Amazon SQS – With the increased throughput quota for FIFO high throughput mode, you can process up to 18,000 transactions per second, per API action. Note the throughput quota depends on the AWS Region. Amazon OpenSearch Service – OpenSearch Serverless now supports automated time-based data deletion with new index lifecycle policies. To determine the best strategy to deliver accurate and low latency vector search queries, OpenSearch can now intelligently evaluate optimal filtering strategies, like pre-filtering with approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) or filtering with exact k-nearest neighbor (k-NN). Also, OpenSearch Service now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). Amazon EC2 – With multi-VPC ENI attachments, you can launch an instance with a primary elastic network interface (ENI) in one virtual private cloud (VPC) and attach a secondary ENI from another VPC. This helps maintain network-level segregation, but still allows specific workloads (like centralized appliances and databases) to communicate between them. AWS CodePipeline – With parameterized pipelines, you can dynamically pass input parameters to a pipeline execution. You can now start a pipeline execution when a specific git tag is applied to a commit in the source repository. Amazon MemoryDB – Now supports Graviton3-based R7g nodes that deliver up to 28 percent increased throughput compared to R6g. These nodes also deliver higher networking bandwidth. Other AWS news Here are a few posts from some of the other AWS and cloud blogs that I follow: Networking & Content Delivery Blog – Some of the technical management and hardware decisions we make when building AWS network infrastructure: A Continuous Improvement Model for Interconnects within AWS Data Centers DevOps Blog – To help enterprise customers understand how many of developers use CodeWhisperer, how often they use it, and how often they accept suggestions: Introducing Amazon CodeWhisperer Dashboard and CloudWatch Metrics Front-End Web & Mobile Blog – How to restrict access to your GraphQL APIs to consumers within a private network: Architecture Patterns for AWS AppSync Private APIs Architecture Blog – Another post in this super interesting series: Let’s Architect! Designing systems for stream data processing From Community.AWS: Load Testing WordPress Amazon Lightsail Instances and Future-proof Your .NET Apps With Foundation Model Choice and Amazon Bedrock. 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: Jaipur (November 4), Vadodara (November 4), Brasil (November 4), 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. 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. On to the next one! — 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

The entire AWS News Blog team is fully focused on writing posts to announce the new services and features during our annual customer conference in Las Vegas, AWS re:Invent! And while we prepare content for you to read, our services teams continue to innovate. Here is my summary of last week’s launches. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that captured my attention: Amazon CodeCatalyst – You can now add a cron expression to trigger a CI/CD workflow, providing a way to start workflows at set times. CodeCatalyst is a unified development service that integrates a project’s collaboration tools, CI/CD pipelines, and development and deployment environments. Amazon Route53 – You can now route your customer’s traffic to their closest AWS Local Zones to improve application performance for latency-sensitive workloads. Learn more about geoproximity routing in the Route53 documentation. Amazon RDS – The root certificates we use to sign your databases’ TLS certificates will expire in 2024. You must generate new certificates for your databases before the expiration date. This blog post details the procedure step by step. The new root certificates we generated are valid for the next 40 years for RSA2048 and 100 years for the RSA4098 and ECC384. It is likely this is the last time in your professional career that you are obliged to renew your database certificates for AWS. Amazon MSK – Replicating Kafka clusters at scale is difficult and often involves managing the infrastructure and the replication solution by yourself. We launched Amazon MSK Replicator, a fully managed replication solution for your Kafka clusters, in the same or across multiple AWS Regions. Amazon CodeWhisperer – We launched a preview for an upcoming capability of Amazon CodeWhisperer Professional. You can now train CodeWhisperer on your private code base. It allows you to give your organization’s developers more relevant suggestions to better assist them in their day-to-day coding against your organization’s private libraries and frameworks. Amazon EC2 – The seventh generation of memory-optimized EC2 instances is available (R7i). These instances use the 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). This family of instances provides up to 192 vCPU and 1,536 GB of memory. They are well-suited for memory-intensive applications such as in-memory databases or caches. X in Y – We launched existing services and instance types in additional Regions: Amazon Bedrock is now available in Europe (Frankfurt). This is important for customers in Europe because they often have to ensure their data stays in the European Union. You can now embed generative AI functionalities and access to large language models in your applications with the assurance that the prompts and customizations will stay in Europe. Amazon EC2 extended its footprint for multiple families of instances: m6gd instances are now available in Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo), c6a in Canada (Central), m6a in Canada (Central) and Europe (Milan), and r6a instances in US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Finally, m6id instances are now available in Europe (Zurich). Amazon EMR managed scaling is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Other AWS news Here are some other blog posts and news items that you might like: The Community.AWS blog has new posts to teach you how to integrate Amazon Bedrock inside your Java and Go applications, and my colleague Brooke wrote a survival guide for re:Invent first-timers. 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. Some other great sources of AWS news include: AWS Open Source Newsletter AWS Graviton Weekly AWS Cloud Security Weekly Last Week in AWS 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: Jaipur (November 4), Vadodara (November 4), and Brasil (November 4). AWS Innovate: Every Application Edition – Join our free online conference to explore cutting-edge ways to enhance security and reliability, optimize performance on a budget, speed up application development, and revolutionize your applications with generative AI. Register for AWS Innovate Online Asia Pacific & Japan on October 26. 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 re:Invent highlights for generative AI. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. And that’s all for me today. I’ll go back writing my re:Invent blog posts. 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

With just 41 days until AWS re:Invent 2023 opens, I’m doing my best to stay heads-down and focused on working with the entire AWS News Blog team to create plenty of awesome new posts for your reading pleasure! I’ll take a short break this morning to share some of the most exciting launches and other news from last week. Here we go! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that captured my attention: Amazon EBS – The new Attached EBS Status Check CloudWatch metric lets you monitor the status of all of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes attached to a particular Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, verifying that the volumes are reachable and able to complete I/O operations. AWS Systems Manager – You can now enable AWS Systems Manager by default for all EC2 instances within an Organization. This lets you confirm that core Systems Manager capabilities are present on all new and existing instances. Amazon EC2 – You can now set unused or obsolete AMIs to a disabled state. This makes the AMI private if it was previously shared, hides it from DescribeImages by default, and prevents new instances from being launched from it. Amazon Textract – You can now use Custom Queries to adapt Textract’s Queries feature to improve extraction accuracy for business-specific documents. You upload sample documents, label the data, and generate an adapter, which you then use in calls to the AnalyzeDocument function. Amazon OpenSearch Service – You can now create Search Pipelines for easier processing of queries and results. Each search pipeline can contain multiple processing steps: query rewriters, natural language processors, result rerankers, and filters; several standard processors are also included. Amazon Linux 2 – The latest quarterly release (AL2023.2) of Amazon Linux 2 includes a core set of Ansible features as well as a curated set of community collections. It also includes Amazon Corretto 21, and many other new features and capabilities. Amazon Rekognition – You can now train custom adapters to reduce the number of false positives and false negative flagged by Amazon Rekognition, giving you the power to tailor the deep learning model to improve performance for your specific use case. Amazon RDS – Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases on M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn database instances. X in Y – We launched existing services and instance types in additional regions: M6in and M6idn instances in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Europe (Stockholm). C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd instances in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo). C7gd instances in Asia Pacific (Sydney). Unified settings for the AWS Management Console in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Direct Connect in Seoul, South Korea. AWS Global Accelerator in Hanoi, Vietnam (second location). Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in Asia Pacific (Osaka). AWS Organizations Service Control Policies in AWS China Regions. AWS Verified Access in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo). Private Access to the AWS Management Console in Israel (Tel Aviv). Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle in Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Other AWS News Here are some other blog posts and news items that you might like: On the Community.AWS Blog, Seth Eliot listed Twelve Resilience Sessions at AWS re:Invent You Won’t Want to Miss, Brooke Jamieson explained How to Learn Generative AI from Scratch, and Daniel Wirjo shared some Patterns for Building Generative AI Applications on Amazon Bedrock. On the AWS Insights blog, fellow news blogger Irshad Buchh explained why Two billion downloads of Terraform AWS Provider shows value of IaC for infrastructure management. The AWS IoT Blog explained How to build a scalable, multi-tenant IoT SaaS platform on AWS using a multi-account strategy. The Amazon SES Blog showed you how to Automate marketing campaigns with real-time customer data using Amazon Pinpoint. The AWS Big Data Blog showed you how to Orchestrate Amazon EMR Serverless jobs with AWS Step functions. The AWS Compute Blog talked about Filtering events in Amazon EventBridge with wildcard pattern matching. The AWS Storage Blog talked about Retaining Amazon EC2 AMI snapshots for compliance using Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive. The AWS Architecture Blog talked about how Internet Travel Service ITS adopts microservices architecture for improved air travel search engine. Some other great sources of AWS news include: AWS Open Source Newsletter AWS Graviton Weekly AWS Cloud Security Weekly Last Week in AWS 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: Italy (October 18), UAE (October 21), Jaipur (November 4), Vadodara (November 4), and Brasil (November 4). AWS Innovate: Every Application Edition – Join our free online conference to explore cutting-edge ways to enhance security and reliability, optimize performance on a budget, speed up application development, and revolutionize your applications with generative AI. Register for AWS Innovate Online Americas and EMEA on October 19 and AWS Innovate Online Asia Pacific & Japan on October 26. 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 re:Invent highlights for generative AI. You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. And that’s a wrap. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Jeff; 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

As the Northern Hemisphere enjoys early fall and pumpkins take over the local farmers markets and coffee flavors here in the United States, we’re also just 50 days away from re:Invent 2023! But before we officially enter pre:Invent sea­­son, let’s have a look at some of last week’s exciting news and announcements. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS Control Tower – AWS Control Tower released 22 proactive controls and 10 AWS Security Hub detective controls to help you meet regulatory requirements and meet control objectives such as encrypting data in transit, encrypting data at rest, or using strong authentication. For more details and a list of controls, check out the AWS Control Tower user guide. Amazon Bedrock – Just a week after Amazon Bedrock became available in AWS Regions US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), Amazon Bedrock is now also available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region. To get started building and scaling generative AI applications with foundation models, check out the Amazon Bedrock documentation, explore the generative AI space at community.aws, and get hands-on with the Amazon Bedrock workshop. Amazon OpenSearch Service – You can now run OpenSearch version 2.9 in Amazon OpenSearch Service with improvements to search, observability, security analytics, and machine learning (ML) capabilities. OpenSearch Service has expanded its geospatial aggregations support in version 2.9 to gather insights on high-level overview of trends and patterns and establish correlations within the data. OpenSearch Service 2.9 now also comes with OpenSearch Service Integrations to take advantage of new schema standards such as OpenTelemetry and supports managing and overlaying alerts and anomalies onto dashboard visualization line charts. Amazon SageMaker – SageMaker Feature Store now supports a fully managed, in-memory online store to help you retrieve features for model serving in real time for high throughput ML applications. The new online store is powered by ElastiCache for Redis, an in-memory data store built on open-source Redis. The SageMaker developer guide has all the details. Also, SageMaker Model Registry added support for private model repositories. You can now register models that are stored in private Docker repositories and track all your models across multiple private AWS and non-AWS model repositories in one central service, simplifying ML operations (MLOps) and ML governance at scale. The SageMaker Developer Guide shows you how to get started. Amazon SageMaker Canvas – SageMaker Canvas expanded its support for ready-to-use models to include foundation models (FMs). You can now access FMs such as Claude 2, Amazon Titan, and Jurassic-2 (powered by Amazon Bedrock) as well as publicly available models such as Falcon and MPT (powered by SageMaker JumpStart) through a no-code chat interface. Check out the SageMaker Developer Guide for more details. 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 blog posts and news items that you might find interesting: Behind the scenes on AWS contributions to open-source databases – This post shares some of the more substantial open-source contributions AWS has made in the past two years to upstream databases, introduces some key contributors, and shares how AWS approaches upstream work in our database services. Fast and cost-effective Llama 2 fine-tuning with AWS Trainium – This post shows you how to fine-tune the Llama 2 model from Meta on AWS Trainium, a purpose-built accelerator for LLM training, to reduce training times and costs. Code Llama code generation models from Meta are now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – You can now deploy Code Llama FMs, developed by Meta, with one click in SageMaker JumpStart. This post walks you through the details. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: Build On Generative AI – Season 2 of this weekly Twitch show about all things generative AI is in full swing! Every Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Emily and Darko look at new technical and scientific patterns on AWS, invite guest speakers to demo their work, and show us how they built something new to improve the state of generative AI. In today’s episode, Emily and Darko discussed how to translate unstructured documents into structured data. Check out show notes and the full list of episodes on community.aws. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) (October 13), Italy (October 18), UAE (October 21), Jaipur (November 4), Vadodara (November 4), and Brasil (November 4). AWS Innovate: Every Application Edition – Join our free online conference to explore cutting-edge ways to enhance security and reliability, optimize performance on a budget, speed up application development, and revolutionize your applications with generative AI. Register for AWS Innovate Online Americas and EMEA on October 19 and AWS Innovate Online Asia Pacific & Japan on October 26. 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 re:Invent highlights for generative AI. 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 week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own city since 2019 so it was very special to have the opportunity to attend. It was great to get to meet with so many of our customers and hear how they are building on AWS. Now on to the AWS updates. I’ve compiled a few announcements and upcoming events you need to know about. Let’s get started! Last Week’s Launches Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Amazon Bedrock was announced in preview in April of this year as part of a set of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Last week’s announcement of this service being generally available was received with a lot of excitement and customers have already been sharing what they are building with Amazon Bedrock. I quite enjoyed this lighthearted post from AWS Serverless Hero Jones Zachariah Noel about the “Bengaluru with traffic-filled roads” image he produced using Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion XL image generation model on Amazon Bedrock. Amazon MSK Introduces Managed Data Delivery from Apache Kafka to Your Data Lake – Amazon MSK was released in 2019 to help our customers reduce the work needed to set up, scale, and manage Apache Kafka in production. Now you can continuously load data from an Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Other AWS News A few more news items and blog posts you might have missed: The Community.AWS Blog is where builders share and learn with the community of cloud enthusiasts. Contributors to this blog include AWS employees, AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and other members of the AWS Community. Last week, AWS Hero Johannes Koch published this awesome post on how to build a simple website using Flutter that interacts with a serverless backend powered by AppSync-merged APIs. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page. Upcoming AWS Events We have the following upcoming events: AWS Cloud Days (October 10, 24) – Connect and collaborate with other like-minded folks while learning about AWS at the AWS Cloud Day in Athens and Prague. AWS Innovate Online (October 19) – Register for AWS Innovate Online to learn how you can build, run, and scale next-generation applications on the most extensive cloud platform. There will be 80+ sessions delivered in five languages and you’ll receive a certificate of attendance to showcase all you’ve learned. We’re focused on improving our content to provide a better customer experience, and we need your feedback to do so. Take this quick survey to share insights on your experience with the AWS Blog. Note that this survey is hosted by an external company, so the link doesn’t lead to our website. AWS handles your information as described in the AWS Privacy Notice. – Veliswa View the full article

This week, I’m in Jakarta to support AWS User Group Indonesia and AWS Cloud Day Indonesia. Yesterday, I attended a community event – a collaboration between AWS User Group Indonesia and Hacktiv8 with “Innovating Yourself as Early-Stage Developers” as the main theme. We had a blast and I had a wonderful time connecting with speakers and developers. Next up, AWS Cloud Day Indonesia. I’ll be at the Developer Lounge, come and say hi! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: Add Your Swift Packages to AWS CodeArtifact – In this article, Seb describes how Swift developers who write code for Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS or Swift) applications running on the server side can use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their package dependencies. What I really like is how developers can still use standard developer tools, such as Xcode, xcodebuild, and the Swift Package Manager (the swift package command) to interact with AWS CodeArtifact and facilitate integration into the development workflow. Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers – Channy wrote how developers can use Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac to run memory intensive builds and test workloads, modernize their CI/CD and accelerate their product time to market. With 2x RAM, 1.5x CPU cores, and more than 2x GPU cores compared to EC2 M1 Mac instances, Apple developers can now run more tests in parallel using multiple Xcode simulators. Synthetics Python runtime version 2.0 for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics – With Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, you can continually verify your customer experience and discover issues before your customers do by creating canaries. Canaries are configurable scripts that run on a schedule, to monitor your endpoints and APIs. In this announcement, you can use Synthetics Python runtime version syn-python-selenium-2.0 to create canaries. Amazon QuickSight adds new layout and sparkline to KPI visual – Effortlessly design visually appealing KPIs on Amazon Quicksight with these new updates. Quicksight introduces a range of enhancements with user-friendly experience, including templated KPI layouts, support for sparklines, improvements in conditional formatting, and a revamped format pane. Amazon Location Services announces a price reduction of up to 75 percent for tracking and geofencing – Amazon Location Service just announced a four-tiered pricing model for tracking and geofencing to help you scale and cost-effectively run your operations and business. If you use geofencing, you might see your bill decrease by 20 percent to 70 percent, and tracking by up to 75 percent. Amazon Corretto 21 is now generally available – Happy news for Java developers. Amazon Coretto 21 with long term support (LTS) is generally available for Linux, Windows and macOS. AWS App Runner launches improvements for Auto-Scaling configuration management – Now you can use new APIs and parameters for AWS App Runner service to manage your App Runner services and define your auto-scaling configuration (ASC). For example, setting default ASC, update existing ASC and list all App Runner services that are using an ASC resource. Amazon SNS message data protection with redaction or masking – With Amazon SNS, now you can discover and protect certain types of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI). You can define your data protection policies and SNS will scan messages in real-time for sensitive data. Upcoming AWS and Community Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS On Tour – September 18 – October 6, AWS Cloud Day Indonesia – September 26, AWS Summit Johannesburg – September 26, CDK Day – September 29. And let’s learn from our fellow builders and join AWS Community Days: AWS Community Day Zimbabwe (Sept. 30), AWS Community Day Chile (Sept. 30), AWS Community Day Bulgaria Bulgaria (Oct. 7). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. Happy building! — 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

While daylight is getting shorter in the Northern hemisphere, we’ve got two new EC2 instance types optimized for compute and memory and many new capabilities for other services. Last week there was also the EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Munich, an amazing day full of insights and passion. Here’s a nice picture of the participants! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: C7i Instances – Powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) and available only on AWS, these compute-optimized instances offer up to 15 percent better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors used by other cloud providers. A great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding, C7i instances deliver up to 15 percent better price performance versus C6i instances. vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth EBS Bandwidth c7i.large 2 4 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.xlarge 4 8 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.2xlarge 8 16 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.4xlarge 16 32 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps c7i.8xlarge 32 64 12.5 Gbps 10 Gbps c7i.12xlarge 48 96 18.75 Gbps 15 Gbps c7i.16xlarge 64 128 25 Gbps 20 Gbps c7i.24xlarge 96 192 37.5 Gbps 30 Gbps c7i.48xlarge 192 384 50 Gbps 40 Gbps c7i.metal-24xl* 96 192 37.5 Gbps 30 Gbps c7i.metal-48xl* 192 384 50 Gbps 40 Gbps *Bare metal instances are coming soon. To facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads, C7i instances support built-in Intel accelerators such as Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), QuickAssist Technology (QAT), and the new Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) that accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based ML. EC2 R7a Instances – Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, these memory optimized instances deliver up to 50 percent higher performance compared to R6a instances and are ideal for high performance, memory-intensive workloads such as SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications. Read more in Channy’s blog post. Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock (Preview) – To deliver more relevant and contextual responses, Bedrock can now manage both the ingestion workflow and runtime orchestration to connect your organization’s private data sources to foundation models (FMs) and enable retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for your generative AI applications. To store data, you can choose from a range of vector databases including the vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, Pinecone, and Redis Enterprise Cloud. Read more in Antje’s blog post. High Query Rates with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Extends Auto-Scaling – You can now rely on OpenSearch Serverless to help manage unpredictable surges in your search and query traffic and efficiently handle tens of thousands of query transactions per minute. Amazon EMR on EKS – You can now improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management by using EMR to run Apache Flink (Public Preview) on the same Amazon EKS cluster as your other applications. Also, to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment with the latest enhancements such as kernel, toolchain, glibc, and openssl, you can now use Amazon Linux 2023 as the operating system together with Java 17 as Java runtime to run your workloads with Amazon EMR on EKS. Amazon Connect – Amazon Connect Cases now supports uploading attachments to a case, enabling agents to have the information they need at their fingertips in order to resolve cases, and displaying the author name for comments that are written on cases, to more easily track who contributed to the resolution of the case and collaborate more effectively. To receive near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (for example, call is queued) in a contact center, you can now subscribe to the new Contact Data Updated event. Custom Notifications for AWS Chatbot – This lets you include additional information, such as number of orders or current throttling limits, when monitoring the health and performance of your AWS applications in Microsoft Teams and Slack channels. AWS IAM Identity Center Session Duration Increased Up to 90 Days – You now have more flexibility based on your security context and desired end-user experience. Previously, the maximum duration was 7 days. The default session duration continues to be 8 hours and existing customer-configured session limits will remain unchanged. Full Support of GraphQL APIs in Amplify Studio – You can now generate forms connected to your API, manage records in your API with Data Manager, and create data-bound Figma to React components for GraphQL APIs created with Amplify Studio or Amplify CLI. Previously, these data-powered features were only available when using Amplify DataStore. Nested Filtering for AWS AppSync WebSockets-Based Subscriptions – You now have additional control over how data should be published out to connected clients by using filtering rules that allow you to target specific sub-items within the published data. Read more in this blog post. API Gateway Console Refresh – There are usability improvements to REST and WebSocket API workflows (now visually aligned with the console experience of HTTP APIs) and dark mode support. Accessibility enhancements also help to better integrate with assistive technology. Override Retention Capability for AWS Supply Chain – Manual forecast adjustments made by a demand planner are now automatically saved and reapplied from one planning cycle to the next. Other AWS News Serverless Development on AWS – AWS Hero Sheen Brisals and his colleague Luke Hedger revealed that they are sharing their expertise with a book that helps build enterprise-scale serverless solutions on AWS. The book outlines the adoption requirements in terms of people, mindset, and workloads, and details architectural patterns, security, and data best practices for building serverless applications. More posts from AWS blogs – Here are a few posts from some of the other AWS and cloud blogs that I follow: AWS Containers Blog – Deploy and scale Django applications on AWS App Runner. AWS Architecture Blog – Let’s Architect! Leveraging in-memory databases. AWS Machine Learning Blog – Learn how to build and deploy tool-using LLM agents using AWS SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Models. AWS Machine Learning Blog – Simplify access to internal information using Retrieval Augmented Generation and LangChain Agents. AWS for Games Blog – Combining content moderation services with graph databases & analytics to reduce community toxicity. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS On Tour, Sept. 18-Oct. 6 – The AWS Developer Relations team is boarding a bus and traveling across European cities (London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Zurich, Milan, Lyon, and Barcelona) to share their experiences and help you improve productivity. AWS Global Summits, Sept. 26 – The last in-person AWS Summit of the year will be held in Johannesburg on Sept. 26. CDK Day, Sept. 29 – Learn more at the website about this community-led fully virtual event with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. AWS re:Invent, Nov. 27-Dec. 1 – Browsing the session catalog is a nice way to start planning your re:Invent. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Netherlands (Sept. 20), Spain (Sept. 23), Zimbabwe (Sept. 30), Peru (Sept. 30), Chile (Sept. 30), and Bulgaria (Oct. 7). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. — 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

Looks like it is my turn once again to write the AWS Weekly Roundup. I wrote and published the first one on April 16, 2012 — just 4,165 short day ago! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my eye last week: R7iz Instances – Optimized for high CPU performance and designed for your memory-intensive workloads, these instances are powered by the fastest 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud. They are available in eight sizes, with 2 to 128 vCPUs and 16 to 1024 GiB of memory, along with generous allocations of network and EBS bandwidth: vCPUs Memory (GiB) Network Bandwidth EBS Bandwidth r7iz.large 2 16 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.xlarge 4 32 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.2xlarge 8 64 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.4xlarge 16 128 Up to 12.5 Gbps Up to 10 Gbps r7iz.8xlarge 32 256 12.5 Gbps 10 Gbps r7iz.12xlarge 48 384 25 Gbps 19 Gbps r7iz.16xlarge 64 512 25 Gbps 20 Gbps r7iz.32xlarge 128 1024 50 Gbps 40 Gbps As Veliswa shared in her post, the R7iz instances also include four built-in accelerators, and are available in two AWS regions. Amazon Connect APIs for View Resources – A new set of View APIs allows you to programmatically create and manage the view resources (UI templates) used in the step-by-step guides that are displayed in the agent’s UI. Daily Disbursements to Marketplace Sellers – Sellers can now set disbursement preferences and opt-in to receiving outstanding balances on a daily basis for increased flexibility, including the ability to match payments to existing accounting processes. Enhanced Error Handling for AWS Step Functions – You can now construct detailed error messages in Step Functions Fail states, and you can set a maximum limit on retry intervals. Amazon CloudWatch Logs RegEx Filtering – You can now use regular expressions in your Amazon CloudWatch Logs filter patterns. You can, for example, define a single filter that matches multiple IP subnets or HTTP status codes instead of having to use multiple filters, as was previously the case. Each filter pattern can have up to two regular expression patterns. Amazon SageMaker – There’s a new (and quick) Studio setup experience, support for Multi Model Endpoints for PyTorch, and the ability to use SageMaker’s geospatial capabilities on GPU-based instances when using Notebooks. X in Y – We launched existing services and instance types in new regions: ROSA in the Europe (Spain) Region. AWS NAT Gateway in the Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) email receiving service in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), and Europe (Frankfurt, London) Regions. IAM roles last used and last accessed in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Security Hub findings consolidation in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. C6id instances in the Europe (London) Region. Amazon Location Service in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. M6i and R6i instances in the Europe (Zurich) Region. C6gd and R6gd instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. VPC DNS Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. High Memory instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Other AWS News Here are some other AWS updates and news: AWS Fundamentals – The second edition of this awesome book, AWS for the Real World, Not for Certifications, is now available. In addition to more than 400 pages that cover 16 vital AWS services, each chapter includes a detailed and attractive infographic. Here’s a small-scale sample: More posts from AWS blogs – Here are a few posts from some of the other AWS and cloud blogs that I follow: AWS DevOps Blog – Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resources. AWS Big Data Blog – Managing Amazon EBS volume throughput limits in Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. AWS Contact Center Blog – How contact center leaders can prepare for generative AI. AWS Desktop and Application Streaming Blog – Selecting the right AWS End User Computing service for your needs. AWS Containers Blog – Migrate existing Amazon ECS services from an internal Application Load Balancer to Amazon ECS Service Connect. AWS Community Builders – Level up your Lambda Game with Canary Deployments using SST. Cloudonaut – Self-hosted GitHub runners on AWS. Trek10 – How and When to Use Amazon EventBridge Pipes. Upcoming AWS Events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS End User Computing Innovation Day, Sept. 13 – The one-day virtual event is designed to help IT teams tasked with providing the tools employees need to do their jobs, especially in today’s challenging times. Learn more. AWS Global Summits, Sept. 26 – The last in-person AWS Summit will be held in Johannesburg on Sept. 26th. You can also watch on-demand videos of the latest Summit events such as Berlin, Bogotá, Paris, Seoul, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington DC in the AWS YouTube channels. CDK Day, Sept. 29 – A community-led fully virtual event with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. Learn more at the website. AWS re:Invent, Nov. 27-Dec. 1 – Ready to start planning your re:Invent? Browse the session catalog now. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. AWS Community Days, multiple dates – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Munich (Sept. 14), Argentina (Sept. 16), Spain (Sept. 23), Peru (Sept. 30), and Chile (Sept. 30). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. — Jeff; This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. 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Last week, there was some great reading about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) written by AWS tech leaders. Dr. Werner Vogels wrote Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell, celebrating the 17 years of loyal duty of the original version that started what we now know as cloud computing. You can read how it made the process of acquiring compute resources simple, even though the stack running behind the scenes was incredibly complex. We have come a long way since 2006, and we’re not done innovating for our customers. As celebrated in this year’s AWS Storage Day, Amazon EBS was launched 15 years ago this month. James Hamilton, SVP and distinguished engineer at Amazon, wrote Amazon EBS at 15 Years, about how the service has evolved to handle over 100 trillion I/O operations a day, and transfers over 13 exabytes of data daily. As Dr. Werner said in his piece, “it’s a reminder that building evolvable systems is a strategy, and revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.” Our innovation efforts driven by customer feedback continue today, and this week is no different. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink – You can now use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, a fully managed and serverless service for you to build and run real-time streaming applications using Apache Flink. All your existing running applications in Kinesis Data Analytics will work as-is, without any changes. To learn more, see my blog post. Extended Support for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS – You can now get more time for support, up to three years, for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS database instances running MySQL 5.7, PostgreSQL 11, and higher major versions. This e will allow you time to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements even after the community ends support for these versions. Enhanced Starter Template for AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio – You can now use starter templates to streamline the process of creating and prototyping workflows swiftly, plus a new code mode, which enables builders to move easily between design and code authoring views. With the improved authoring experience in Workflow Studio, you can seamlessly alternate between a drag-and-drop visual builder experience or the new code editor so that you can pick your preferred tool to accelerate development. To learn more, see Enhancing Workflow Studio with new features for streamlined authoring in the AWS Compute Blog. Email Delivery History for Every Email in Amazon SES – You can now troubleshoot individual email delivery problems, confirm delivery of critical messages, and identify engaged recipients on a granular, single email basis. Email senders can investigate trends in delivery performance and see delivery and engagement status for each email sent using Amazon SES Virtual Deliverability Manager. Response Streaming through Amazon SageMaker Real-time Inference – You can now continuously stream inference responses back to the client to help you build interactive experiences for various generative AI applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and music generators. For more details on how to use response streaming along with examples, see Invoke to Stream an Inference Response and How containers should respond in the AWS documentation, and Elevating the generative AI experience: Introducing streaming support in Amazon SageMaker hosting in the AWS Machine Learning Blog. 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 might have missed: AI & Sports: How AWS & the NFL are Changing the Game – Over the last 5 years, AWS has partnered with the National Football League (NFL), helping fans better understand the game, helping broadcasters tell better stories, and helping teams use data to improve operations and player safety. Watch AWS CEO, Adam Selipsky, former NFL All-Pro Larry Fitzgerald, and the NFL Network’s Cynthia Frelund during their earlier livestream discussing the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning in sports. Amazon Bedrock Story from Amazon Science – This is a good article explaining the benefits of using Amazon Bedrock to build and scale generative AI applications with leading foundation models, including Amazon’s Titan FMs, which focus on responsible AI to avoid toxic content. Amazon EC2 Flexibility Score – This is an open source tool developed by AWS to assess any configuration used to launch instances through an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) against the recommended EC2 best practices. It converts the best practice adoption into a “flexibility score” that can be used to identify, improve, and monitor the configurations. To learn more open-source news and updates, see this 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 re:Invent – Ready to start planning your re:Invent? Browse the session catalog now. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. AWS Global Summits – The last in-person AWS Summit will be held in Johannesburg on Sept. 26. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Aotearoa (Sept. 6), Lebanon (Sept. 9), Munich (Sept. 14), Argentina (Sept. 16), Spain (Sept. 23), and Chile (Sept. 30). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. CDK Day – A community-led fully virtual event on Sept. 29 with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. Learn more at the website. You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, and developer-focused events such as AWS DevDay. — 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

This week, I will meet our customers and partners at the AWS Summit Mexico. If you are around, please come say hi at the community lounge and at the F1 Game Day where I will spend most of my time. I would love to discuss your developer experience on AWS and listen to your stories about building on AWS. Last Week’s Launches I am amazed at how quickly service teams are deploying services to the new il-central-1 Region, aka AWS Israel (Tel-Aviv) Region. I counted no fewer than 25 new service announcements since we opened the Region on August 1, including ten just for last week! In addition to these developments in the new Region, here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. AWS Dedicated Local Zones – Just like Local Zones, Dedicated Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure that is fully managed by AWS. Unlike Local Zones, they are built for exclusive use by you or your community and placed in a location or data center specified by you to help comply with regulatory requirements. I think about them as a portion of AWS infrastructure dedicated to my exclusive usage. Enhanced search on AWS re:Post – AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service. The enhanced search experience helps you locate answers and discover articles more quickly. Search results are now presenting a consolidated view of all AWS knowledge on re:Post. The view shows AWS Knowledge Center articles, question and answers, and community articles that are relevant to the user’s search query. Amazon QuickSight supports scheduled programmatic export to Microsoft Excel – Amazon QuickSight now supports scheduled generation of Excel workbooks by selecting multiple tables and pivot table visuals from any sheet of a dashboard. Snapshot Export APIs will now also support programmatic export to Excel format, in addition to Paginated PDF and CSV. Amazon WorkSpaces announced a new client to support Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 – The new client, powered by WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), improves the remote desktop experience by offering enhanced web conferencing functionality, better multi-monitor support, and a more user-friendly interface. To get started, simply download the new Linux client versions from Amazon WorkSpaces client download website. Amazon Sagemaker CPU/GPU profiler – We launched the preview of Amazon SageMaker Profiler, an advanced observability tool for large deep learning workloads. With this new capability, you are able to access granular compute hardware-related profiling insights for optimizing model training performance. Amazon Sagemaker rolling deployments strategy – You can now update your Amazon SageMaker Endpoints using a rolling deployment strategy. Rolling deployment makes it easier for you to update fully-scaled endpoints that are deployed on hundreds of popular accelerated compute instances. 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 might have missed: On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda – This one is not new from this week, but I spotted it while I was taking a few days of holidays. Marc Brooker and team were awarded Best Paper by USENIX Association for On-demand Container Loading in AWS Lambda (pdf). They explained in detail the challenges of loading (huge) container images in AWS Lambda. A must-read if you’re curious how Lambda functions work behind the scenes (pdf). 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 Hybrid Cloud & Edge Day (August 30) – Join a free-to-attend one-day virtual event to hear the latest hybrid cloud and edge computing trends, emerging technologies, and learn best practices from AWS leaders, customers, and industry analysts. To learn more, see the detail agenda and register now. AWS Global Summits – The 2023 AWS Summits season is almost ending with the last two in-person events in Mexico City (August 30) and Johannesburg (September 26). AWS re:Invent – But don’t worry because re:Invent season (November 27–December 1) is coming closer. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. Registration is now open. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: Aotearoa (September 6), Lebanon (September 9), Munich (September 14), Argentina (September 16), Spain (September 23), and Chile (September 30). Visit the landing page to check out all the upcoming AWS Community Days. CDK Day (September 29) – A community-led fully virtual event with tracks in English and Spanish about CDK and related projects. Learn more at the website. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review! 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! -- sebView the full article

In a few days, I will board a plane towards the south. My tour around Latin America starts. But I won’t be alone in this adventure, you can find some other News Blog authors, like Jeff or Seb, speaking at AWS Community Days and local events in Peru, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. If you see us, come and say hi. We would love to meet you. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. AWS AppSync now supports JavaScript for all resolvers in GraphQL APIs – Last year, we announced that AppSync now supports JavaScript pipeline resolvers. And starting last week, developers can use JavaScript to write unit resolvers, pipeline resolvers, and AppSync functions that are run on the AppSync Javascript runtime. AWS CodePipeline now supports GitLab – Now you can use your GitLab.com source repository to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline, in addition to other providers like AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitHub.com, and GitHub Enterprise Server. Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for OpenTelemetry traces and AWS X-Ray – With the new version of the agent you are now able to collect metrics, logs, and traces with a single agent, not only for CloudWatch but also for OpenTelemetry and AWS X-Ray. Simplifying the installation, configuration, and management of telemetry collection. New instance types: Amazon EC2 M7a and Amazon EC2 Hpc7a – The new Amazon EC2 M7a is a general purpose instance type powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor. In the announcement blog, you can find all the specifics for this instance type. The new Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances are also powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors. These instance types are optimized for high performance computing and Channy Yun wrote a blog post describing the different characteristics of the Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instance type. AWS DeepRacer Educator Playbooks – Last week we introduced the AWS DeepRacer educator playblooks, these are a tool for educators to integrate foundational machine learning (ML) curriculum and labs into their classrooms. Educators can use these playbooks to easily upskill students in the basics of ML with 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 Some other updates and news that you might have missed: Guide for using AWS Lambda to process Apache Kafka Streams – Julian Wood just published the most complete guide you can find on how to use Lambda with Apache Kafka. If you are an Amazon Kinesis user, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered with this video series where you will find similar topics. 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 Hybrid Cloud & Edge Day (August 30) – Join a free-to-attend one-day virtual event to hear the latest hybrid cloud and edge computing trends, emerging technologies, and learn best practices from AWS leaders, customers, and industry analysts. To learn more, see the detail agenda and register now. AWS Global Summits – The 2023 AWS Summits season is almost ending with the last two in-person events in Mexico City (August 30) and Johannesburg (September 26). AWS re:Invent (November 27–December 1) – But don’t worry because re:Invent season is coming closer. Join us to hear the latest from AWS, learn from experts, and connect with the global cloud community. Registration is now open. AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region:Taiwan (August 26), Aotearoa (September 6), Lebanon (September 9), Munich (September 14), Argentina (September 16), Spain (September 23), and Chile (September 30). Check all the upcoming AWS Community Days here. CDK Day (September 29) – A community-led fully virtual event with tracks in English and in Spanish about CDK and related projects. Learn more in the website. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Week in Review! 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! — Marcia View the full article

While I enjoyed a few days off in California to get a dose of vitamin sea, a lot has happened in the AWS universe. Let’s take a look together! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.6 – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you can use to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Apache Airflow version 2.6 introduces important security updates and bug fixes that enhance the security and reliability of your workflows. If you’re currently running Apache Airflow version 2.x, you can now seamlessly upgrade to version 2.6.3. Check out this AWS Big Data Blog post to learn more. Amazon EMR Studio adds support for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control – Amazon EMR Studio is a web-based integrated development environment (IDE) for fully managed Jupyter notebooks that run on Amazon EMR clusters. When you connect to EMR clusters from EMR Studio workspaces, you can now choose the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that you want to connect with. Apache Spark interactive notebooks will access only the data and resources permitted by policies attached to this runtime IAM role. When data is accessed from data lakes managed with AWS Lake Formation, you can enforce table and column-level access using policies attached to this runtime role. For more details, have a look at the Amazon EMR documentation. AWS Security Hub launches 12 new security controls – AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that performs security best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and enables automated remediation. With the newly released controls, Security Hub now supports three additional AWS services: Amazon Athena, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and Amazon Neptune. Security Hub has also added an additional control against Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS Security Hub now offers 276 controls. You can find more information in the AWS Security Hub documentation. Additional AWS services available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region – The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region opened on August 1, 2023. This past week, AWS Service Catalog, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EFS, and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics were added to the list of available services in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Check the AWS Regional Services List for the most up-to-date availability 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 blog posts and news items that you might find interesting: AWS recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service with Amazon Connect – AWS was named a Leader for the first time since Amazon Connect, our flexible, AI-powered cloud contact center, was launched in 2017. Read the full story here. Generate creative advertising using generative AI – This AWS Machine Learning Blog post shows how to generate captivating and innovative advertisements at scale using generative AI. It discusses the technique of inpainting and how to seamlessly create image backgrounds, visually stunning and engaging content, and reducing unwanted image artifacts. 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: Build On Generative AI – Your favorite weekly Twitch show about all things generative AI is back for season 2 today! Every Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Emily and Darko look at new technical and scientific patterns on AWS, inviting guest speakers to demo their work and show us how they built something new to improve the state of generative AI. In today’s episode, Emily and Darko discussed the latest models LlaMa-2 and Falcon, and explored them in retrieval-augmented generation design patterns. You can watch the video here. Check out show notes and the full list of episodes on community.aws. AWS NLP Conference 2023 – Join this in-person event on September 13–14 in London to hear about the latest trends, ground-breaking research, and innovative applications that leverage natural language processing (NLP) capabilities on AWS. This year, the conference will primarily focus on large language models (LLMs), as they form the backbone of many generative AI applications and use cases. Register here. AWS Global Summits – The 2023 AWS Summits season is almost coming to an end with the last two in-person events in Mexico City (August 30) and Johannesburg (September 26). AWS Community Days – Join a community-led conference run by AWS user group leaders in your region: West Africa (August 19), Taiwan (August 26), Aotearoa (September 6), Lebanon (September 9), and Munich (September 14). 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. Registration is now open. 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 P.S. We’re focused on improving our content to provide a better customer experience, and we need your feedback to do so. 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