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AWS Introduces Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to Streamline ML Workflows
AWS announced that Amazon SageMaker Studio now includes Amazon Q Developer as a new capability. This generative AI-powered assistant is built natively into SageMaker’s JupyterLab experience and provides recommendations for the best tools for each task, step-by-step guidance, code generation, and troubleshooting assistance.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Pools: Flexible and Tailored Virtual Desktop Environments
Amazon has announced a new feature for Amazon WorkSpaces called WorkSpaces Pools. This feature provides non-persistent virtual desktops across a group of users. Administrators can manage a portfolio of persistent and non-persistent desktops through a Graphic User Interface, command line, or API-powered tools.
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Amazon Q Apps Aim to Simplify the Creation of Generative AI Apps for the Enterprise
Part of its Amazon Q Business offering, Amazon Q Apps enable the creation of generative AI-powered apps integrating enterprise data that can be shared securely within an organization. Along with their general availability, Amazon announced new APIs for Amazon Q Apps and more granular data source definition.
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AWS Introduces Malware Detection for Object Uploads to Amazon S3
At the latest re:Inforce cloud security conference, AWS announced GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3. This new malware scanning feature for Amazon S3 enables teams to detect malware in new object uploads using Amazon GuardDuty.
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Amazon SageMaker Now Offers Managed MLflow Capability for Enhanced Experiment Tracking
AWS has announced the general availability of MLflow capability in Amazon SageMaker. MLflow is an open-source tool commonly used for managing ML experiments. Users can now compare model performance, parameters, and metrics across experiments in the MLflow UI, keep track of their best models in the MLflow Model Registry, and automatically register them as a SageMaker model.
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AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog
AWS has recently announced updates to the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog. With a significant focus on security and observability, the new release has expanded guidance on architectural best practices to build and maintain optimized, secure, and resilient workloads in the cloud.
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Distill CLI: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Unveils Rust-Powered Media Summarization Tool
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has recently launched Distill CLI, a personal project written in Rust. The open-source tool leverages Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to generate summaries of audio recordings directly from the command line.
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AWS Adds Passkey Support for Enhanced Security, Enforces MFA for Root Users
AWS has recently announced two new security features. First, passkeys can now be used for multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users, providing additional security beyond just a username and password. Second, AWS now requires MFA for root users, starting with the root user account in an AWS Organization. This requirement will be expanded to other accounts throughout the year.
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Amazon EC2 U7i Instances: 896 vCPUs and up to 32 TiB of Memory for High Memory Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability of high-memory U7i instances. Simplifying the vertical scaling of large workloads, these new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.
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Azure Eliminates Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Fees to Encourage Deployment Best Practices
Microsoft has recently announced that Azure will no longer charge for data transfer across availability zones whether using private or public IPs. This change will facilitate the development of resilient multi-AZ applications without the concern of additional data transfer expenses.
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AWS Cloud Control Terraform Provider Enables Quicker Access to AWS Features
HashiCorp has moved the AWS Cloud Control (AWSCC) provider to general availability. The AWSCC provider is automatically generated based on the Cloud Control API published by AWS, implying that new AWS features can be supported in Terraform upon their release.
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AWS Fargate Significantly Improves Windows Container Launch Times
AWS has announced improved launch times for Windows containers running on AWS Fargate. Launch times were improved by pre-baking the AMIs, leveraging EC2 fast launch, and eliminating the network proxy. The team has also provided recommendations for users to further enhance their container launch times.
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Fullstack TypeScript on AWS: Amplify Gen 2 Now Generally Available
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amplify Gen 2, a “code-first developer experience” that enables TypeScript and JavaScript developers to build and deploy fullstack applications on AWS.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Bedrock Studio for Building Generative AI Applications
AWS has recently announced Amazon Bedrock Studio, a web interface for developers to collaborate and build generative AI applications. Currently in public preview, the rapid prototyping environment provides access to multiple foundation models, knowledge bases, agents, and guardrails.
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Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture.