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As AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event, the following week is a great time to learn more and understand how recent announcements can help solve your problems. As usual, we’ve covered the major announcements for AWS re:Invent 2024 in our post.
Keynotes and sessions are now available to watch on the AWS Events YouTube channel. This year, Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy returned to re:Invent and shared some thoughts in this video.
In his keynote, Werner Vogels, Vice President and CTO of Amazon, shared important lessons learned and strategies for managing complex systems based on Amazon’s experience building distributed systems at scale.
Released last week
Here are the releases that caught my attention:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – Next-generation FPGA-based instances (F2) are now available. Unlike purpose-built chips that are designed with a single function in mind and then hard-wired to implement it, a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) can be plugged into a socket and programmed in the field. PC board. We are also launching Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6 TiB and 8 TiB memory. U7i instances are ideal for running large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Graviton-based 8th Generation instances now support bandwidth configuration for Amazon VPC and Amazon EBS.
Amazon bedrock ledge – Reduce prices by up to 85% to help implement safeguards for generative AI applications. We’re also adding multilingual support for Spanish and French.
Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) – We are now announcing the availability of Deterministic Easy DKIM (DEED), a new form of global identity that provides a global endpoint for multi-region delivery resiliency and simplifies the use of DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) management.
AWS CloudFormation – An improved version of the AWS Secrets Manager transformation that introduces automatic AWS Lambda upgrades.
amazon rex – Europe-based models (Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, Spanish) and Asia Pacific-based models (Chinese, Korean, and Japanese).
Amazon Connect – Now supports push notifications for mobile chat on iOS and Android devices. This way, you can immediately and proactively get notified of new messages from an agent or chatbot, even when you’re not actively chatting. You can now also configure holidays and other changes to your contact center operating hours.
AWS Security Hub – Now supports automated security checks aligned with PCI Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1, a compliance framework that provides a set of rules and guidelines for securely handling credit and debit card information.
AWS Resource Explorer – Support for 59 new resource types, including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker.
Amazon SageMaker AI – Inference-optimized Amazon EC2 G6e instances (powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs) and P5e (powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs) are now available in Amazon SageMaker.
Amazon Redshift – We now support materialized views that can be automatically and incrementally refreshed on tables in ETL-less integrations. Previously, this would require running a full refresh.
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code – Now includes Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail, an interactive log streaming and analysis feature that provides real-time visibility into logs and makes application development and troubleshooting easier.
Other AWS News
Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items you may find interesting:
Building a managed transactional data lake using Amazon S3 tables – Amazon S3 Tables, just introduced at re:Invent 2024, is the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. This post on the AWS Storage Blog provides an overview of S3 tables and an example of how to build a transactional data lake with S3 tables using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR.
Introducing cross-region connectivity for AWS PrivateLink – More information about a recent launch that lets you share and access Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint services across different AWS Regions.
Marc Brooker, VP/Original Engineer at AWS, shared several posts on his personal blog about what Amazon Aurora DSQL is, how it works, and how to utilize it.
That’s it for this week. Check back next Monday for another weekly update!
— Danilo
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