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AWS Group Days have been in full swing all over the world. I’m going to place the highlight on AWS Community Day Argentina the place Jeff Barr delivered the keynote, talks and shared his nuggets of knowledge with the neighborhood, together with a enjoyable story of how he as soon as adopted Invoice Gates to a McDonald’s!
I encourage you to read about his experience.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are the launches that obtained my consideration, beginning off with the GA releases.
Amazon EC2 X8g Instances are now generally available – X8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and ship as much as 60% higher efficiency than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd situations. These situations provide bigger sizes with as much as 3x extra vCPU (as much as 48xlarge) and reminiscence (as much as 3TiB) than Graviton2-based X2gd situations.
Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift is now generally available – Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor is an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Amazon Redshift. It makes use of generative AI to investigate person intent, question patterns, and schema metadata to establish widespread SQL question patterns instantly inside Amazon Redshift, accelerating the question authoring course of for customers and decreasing the time required to derive actionable knowledge insights.
AWS SDK for Swift is now generally available – AWS SDK for Swift offers a contemporary, user-friendly, and native Swift interface for accessing Amazon Net Companies from Apple platforms, AWS Lambda, and Linux-based Swift on Server functions. Now that it’s GA, clients can use AWS SDK for Swift for manufacturing workloads. Study extra within the AWS SDK for Swift Developer Guide.
AWS Amplify now supports long-running tasks with asynchronous server-side function calls – Builders can use AWS Amplify to invoke Lambda perform asynchronously for operations like generative AI mannequin inferences, batch processing jobs, or message queuing with out blocking the GraphQL API response. This improves responsiveness and scalability, particularly for situations the place speedy responses are usually not required or the place long-running duties have to be offloaded.
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports add-column for multi-Region tables – With this launch, you’ll be able to modify the schema of your present multi-Area tables in Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) so as to add new columns. You solely have to change the schema in one among its duplicate Areas and Keyspaces will replicate the brand new schema to the opposite Areas the place the desk exists.
Amazon Corretto 23 is now generally available – Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Corretto 23 is an OpenJDK 23 Characteristic Launch that features an up to date Vector API, expanded sample matching and swap expression, and extra. Will probably be supported via April, 2025.
Use OR1 instances for existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains – With OpenSearch 2.15, you’ll be able to leverage OR1 situations on your present Amazon OpenSearch Service domains by merely updating your present area configuration, and selecting OR1 situations for knowledge nodes. This may seamlessly transfer domains operating OpenSearch 2.15 to OR1 situations utilizing a blue/inexperienced deployment.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS KMS with customer managed keys – By default, S3 Express One Zone encrypts all objects with server-side encryption utilizing S3 managed keys (SSE-S3). With S3 Specific One Zone help for buyer managed keys, you’ve extra choices to encrypt and handle the safety of your knowledge. S3 Bucket Keys are at all times enabled whenever you use SSE-KMS with S3 Specific One Zone, at no further price.
Use AWS Chatbot to interact with Amazon Bedrock agents from Microsoft Teams and Slack – Earlier than, clients needed to develop customized chat functions in Microsoft Groups or Slack and combine it with Amazon Bedrock agents. Now they will invoke their Amazon Bedrock brokers from chat channels by connecting the agent alias with an AWS Chatbot channel configuration.
AWS CodeBuild support for managed GitLab runners – Clients can configure their AWS CodeBuild projects to obtain GitLab CI/CD job occasions and run them on ephemeral hosts. This function permits GitLab jobs to combine natively with AWS, offering safety and comfort via options comparable to IAM, AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor, AWS CloudTrail, and Amazon VPC.
We launched present companies in further Areas:
Different AWS information
Listed below are some further tasks, weblog posts, and information objects that you simply may discover fascinating:
Secure Cross-Cluster Communication in EKS – It demonstrates how you should use Amazon VPC Lattice and Pod Id to safe cross-EKS-cluster utility communication, together with an instance that you should use as a reference to adapt to your personal microservices functions.
Improve RAG performance using Cohere Rerank – This put up focuses on enhancing search effectivity and accuracy in RAG programs utilizing Cohere Rerank.
AWS open supply information and updates – My colleague Ricardo Sueiras writes about open supply tasks, instruments, and occasions from the AWS Group; take a look at Ricardo’s page for the most recent updates.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendars and join upcoming AWS occasions:
AWS Group Days – Be a part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and business leaders from all over the world. Upcoming AWS Group Days are in Italy (Sep. 27), Taiwan (Sep. 28), Saudi Arabia (Sep. 28)), Netherlands (Oct. 3), and Romania (Oct. 5).
Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events.
That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
— Abhishek
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