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With the arrival of September, AWS re:Invent 2024 is now 3 months away and I’m very excited for the brand new upcoming providers and bulletins on the convention. I keep in mind attending re:Invent 2019, simply earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the most important in-person re:Invent with 60,000+ attendees and it was my second one. It was wonderful to be in that ambiance! Registration is now open for AWS re:Invent 2024. Come be part of us in Las Vegas for 5 thrilling days of keynotes, breakout periods, chalk talks, interactive studying alternatives, and career-changing connections!
Now let’s have a look at the final week’s new bulletins.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are the launches that acquired my consideration.
Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service – AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is a brand new managed service that allows you to run and scale excessive efficiency computing (HPC) workloads on AWS. You possibly can construct scientific and engineering fashions and run simulations utilizing a completely managed Slurm scheduler with built-in technical help and a wealthy set of customization choices. Tailor your HPC setting to your particular wants and combine it together with your most popular software program stack. Construct full HPC clusters that integrates compute, storage, networking, and visualization assets, and seamlessly scale from zero to 1000’s of cases. To be taught extra, go to AWS Parallel Computing Service and skim Channy’s blog post.
Amazon EC2 status checks now support reachability health of attached EBS volumes – Now you can use Amazon EC2 standing checks to instantly monitor if the Amazon EBS volumes hooked up to your cases are reachable and in a position to full I/O operations. With this new standing verify, you may rapidly detect attachment points or quantity impairments which will affect the efficiency of your functions operating on Amazon EC2 cases. You possibly can additional combine these standing checks inside Auto Scaling teams to observe the well being of EC2 cases and substitute impacted cases to make sure excessive availability and reliability of your functions. Connected EBS standing checks can be utilized together with the occasion standing and system standing checks to observe the well being of your cases. To be taught extra, seek advice from the Status checks for Amazon EC2 instances documentation.
Amazon QuickSight now supports sharing views of embedded dashboards – Now you can share views of embedded dashboards in Amazon QuickSight. This function means that you can allow extra collaborative capabilities in your software with embedded QuickSight dashboards. Moreover, you may allow personalization capabilities similar to bookmarks for nameless customers. You possibly can share a singular hyperlink that shows solely your adjustments whereas staying inside the software, and use dashboard or console embedding to generate a shareable hyperlink to your software web page with QuickSight’s reference encapsulated utilizing the QuickSight Embedding SDK. QuickSight Readers can then ship this shareable hyperlink to their friends. When their peer accesses the shared hyperlink, they’re taken to the web page on the appliance that accommodates the embedded QuickSight dashboard. For extra data, seek advice from Embedded view documentation.
Amazon Q Business launches IAM federation for user identity authentication – Amazon Q Business is a completely managed service that deploys a generative AI enterprise knowledgeable in your enterprise knowledge. You should utilize the Amazon Q Enterprise IAM federation function to attach your functions on to your id supplier to supply person id and person attributes for these functions. Beforehand, you needed to sync your person id data out of your id supplier into AWS IAM Identity Center, after which join your Amazon Q Enterprise functions to IAM Id Middle for person authentication. At launch, Amazon Q Enterprise IAM federation will help the OpenID Join (OIDC) and SAML2.0 protocols for id supplier connectivity. To be taught extra, go to Amazon Q Business documentation.
Amazon Bedrock now supports cross-Region inference – Amazon Bedrock broadcasts help for cross-Area inference, an optionally available function that lets you seamlessly handle site visitors bursts by using compute throughout completely different AWS Areas. If you’re utilizing on-demand mode, you’ll be capable to get greater throughput limits (as much as 2x your allotted in-Area quotas) and enhanced resilience in periods of peak demand by utilizing cross-Area inference. By opting in, you now not must spend effort and time predicting demand fluctuations. As a substitute, cross-Area inference dynamically routes site visitors throughout a number of Areas, guaranteeing optimum availability for every request and smoother efficiency throughout high-usage durations. You possibly can management the place your inference knowledge flows by deciding on from a pre-defined set of Areas, serving to you adjust to relevant knowledge residency necessities and sovereignty legal guidelines. Discover the checklist at Supported Regions and models for cross-Region inference. To get began, seek advice from the Amazon Bedrock documentation or this Machine Learning blog.
For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.
We launched present providers and occasion varieties in further Areas:
- Amazon EC2 C6gd and R6gd instances are now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region. C6gd cases are perfect for compute-intensive workloads similar to excessive efficiency computing (HPC), batch processing, and CPU-based machine studying inference. R6gd cases are constructed for operating memory-intensive workloads similar to open-source databases, in-memory caches, and actual time massive knowledge analytics.
- Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment possibility for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easy to run search and analytics workloads with out the complexities of infrastructure administration.
- AWS Global Accelerator launches new edge location in Cairo, Egypt. AWS International Accelerator is a networking service that helps you enhance the provision and efficiency of the functions that you simply supply to your world customers.
- Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon Redshift Serverless is a serverless possibility of Amazon Redshift that makes it extra environment friendly to run and scale analytics in seconds with out the necessity to arrange and handle knowledge warehouse infrastructure.
- Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton3 (C7g, M7g, R7g, R7gd) instances. Amazon OpenSearch Service now helps AWS Graviton3 cases, which ship as much as 25% higher efficiency over Graviton2-based cases.
- AWS Config conformance packs now available in 12 additional AWS Regions. Conformance packs help you bundle AWS Config guidelines and their related remediation actions right into a single bundle, simplifying deployment at scale. These capabilities have been added to the next Areas: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Africa (Cape City), Center East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West).
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Upcoming AWS occasions
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AWS Summits are free on-line and in-person occasions that carry the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. AWS Summits for this yr are coming to an finish. There are 3 extra left that you may nonetheless register: Jakarta (September 5), Toronto (September 11), and Ottawa (October 9).
AWS Community Days function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable AWS customers and trade leaders from world wide. Whereas AWS Summits 2024 are virtually over, AWS Group Days are in full swing. Upcoming AWS Group Days are in Belfast (September 6), SF Bay Area (September 13), the place our personal Antje Barth is a keynote speaker, Argentina (September 14), and Armenia (September 14).
Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events here.
That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
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