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AWS Introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity
AWS recently announced a new feature Provisioned Capacity for Athena, that allows users to run SQL queries on fully-managed compute capacity for a fixed price and no long-term commitments.
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AWS Announces Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion for Streamlined Data Ingestion
AWS recently announced Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion, a capability of Amazon OpenSearch Service that provides a serverless, auto-scaled, managed data collector that receives, transforms, and delivers data to Amazon OpenSearch Service domains or Amazon OpenSearch Serverless collections.
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Amazon CodeCatalyst Moves to GA with Amazon CodeWhisperer Support
Amazon moved CodeCatalyst into full general availability with a number of new features. CodeCatalyst provides templates to streamline creating the project's infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and issue management system. New features with the GA release include better support for GitHub repos, integration with Amazon CodeWhisperer, and support for AWS Graviton processors.
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AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework
AWS recently released an update to the Well-Architected Framework. The new version strengthens prescriptive guidance with over 100 best practices updated across all six pillars of the framework.
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AI, ML & Data News Roundup: HuggingGPT, AWS Bedrock, Microsoft Visual ChatGPT, and StableLM
The latest update for the week of April 17th, 2023, includes the recent advancements and announcements in the domains of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. The spotlight this week is on top players like Hugging Face, AWS, Microsoft, and Stability AI, who have introduced groundbreaking innovations.
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AWS Lambda Finally Supports Python 3.10
AWS recently announced that Lambda supports Python 3.10 as both a managed runtime and container base image, allowing developers to leverage the improvements and features of the runtime.
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AWS Enters the Generative AI Race with Bedrock and Titan Foundation Models
AWS announced their entry into the generative AI race with the launch of Amazon Bedrock and Titan foundation models. Amazon aims to democratize access to generative AI technology, catering to customers across various industries and use cases. This groundbreaking development positions Amazon as a formidable competitor in the rapidly growing AI market.
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AWS Lambda Introduces Response Payload Streaming
Amazon recently announced that AWS Lambda functions can progressively stream response payloads back to the client. The new feature improves performance for web and mobile applications and is currently available for Node.js 14.x and newer runtimes, as well as custom ones.
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Amazon VPC Lattice Now GA with New Capabilities for Service-to-Service Connectivity
Announced in preview at the latest re:Invent conference, Amazon VPC Lattice is now generally available, with new capabilities for service-to-service connectivity, security, and monitoring. The pricing model raised some concerns in the community.
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AWS Supply Chain Now Generally Available with New Features
AWS’s Supply Chain cloud application has recently been made generally available, offering unified data, actionable insights powered by machine learning, and contextual collaboration features to reduce costs and mitigate risk.
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LocalStack 2.0: Open-Source Tool for Local Cloud Development Gets Significant Updates
The company LocalStack recently announced the general availability of LocalStack 2.0, an open-source tool for the local development and testing of cloud applications.
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Amazon GuardDuty Adds EKS Runtime Monitoring and RDS Protection
Amazon GuardDuty added Amazon EKS Runtime Monitoring and RDS Protection for Amazon Aurora. EKS Runtime Monitoring can detect runtime threats from over 30 different security findings. RDS Protection adds support for profiling and monitoring access activity to Aurora databases.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service Introduces Security Analytics
Amazon recently announced the general availability of security analytics for OpenSearch Service. The new capability of the successor of ElasticSearch Service provides threat monitoring, detection, and alerting features to help manage security threats.
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Cloud Provider Sustainability: the Need for a Workload Carbon Footprint Standard
Adrian Cockcroft, tech advisor and former VP for sustainability architecture at Amazon, shared his vision at QCon London on sustainability commitments for cloud providers and the current challenges in determining their supply chain carbon footprint. Cockcroft advocated for a new real-time carbon footprint standard.
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Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing
Erica Pisani, senior software engineer at Netlify, presented at QCon London on what edge is, how running code and serving data on the edge can improve site performance, and how to leverage these options effectively in a site to maximize site performance with minimal architectural changes.