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Trusted Advisor Priority Capability Now Available for Enterprise Support Customers
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of a new capability for their Trusted Advisor service with Trusted Advisor Priority, allowing Enterprise Support customers prioritized and context-driven recommendations manually curated by the AWS account team based on their knowledge of the customer’s environment and the machine-generated checks from AWS Services.
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AWSGoat Open-Source Project for Pen Testing AWS Cloud Solutions
AWSGoat is a vulnerable-by-design infrastructure on AWS, featuring the latest released OWASP Top 10 web application security risks (2021) and other misconfiguration based on services such as IAM, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, EC2, and ECS. It mimics real-world infrastructure with additional flaws and uses a black-box approach, including multiple escalation paths.
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Amazon Announces New Capabilities on Local Environments for SageMaker Canvas and Pipelines
Amazon is announcing multiple capabilities for SageMaker, including expanded capabilities to better prepare and analyze data for machine learning, faster onboarding with automatic data import from local disk in SageMaker Canvas, and the testing of machine learning workflows in local environments for SageMaker Pipelines.
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Discover, Copy, and Share Common Code with the New AWS Serverless Snippets Collection
Recently, the AWS Serverless Developer Advocate team released the Serverless Snippets Collection. This new Serverless Land page makes it easier to find, copy, and share common code that can enhance productivity in serverless application development.
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AWS Brings Support for GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio Events to Amazon EventBridge
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that allows AWS services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events. The service now supports integrations with GitHub, Stripe, and Twilio via webhooks using Quicks Starts.
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AWS Private 5G Mobile Network Generally Available But without 5G Support
Amazon recently announced the general availability of AWS Private 5G, a managed service to set up and deploy private mobile networks. The current lack of 5G support, the minimum price of a radio unit and the availability only in the United States raised some concerns in the community.
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AWS Adds Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer to Lambda Console
AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer in the AWS Lambda console. Available as a native code suggestion feature in the code editor, the new functionality of the coding assistant can make code recommendations during Lambda function definition.
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Run Visual Studio Software on Amazon EC2 with User-Based License Model
AWS recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances. Organizations can now pay a per-user subscription fee for fully compliant AWS-provided Visual Studio licenses.
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Amazon GuardDuty Introduces Malware Detection
At the recent re:Inforce security conference, AWS announced the availability of malware detection for Amazon GuardDuty. The new functionality of the managed threat detection service initiates a scan of the EBS volumes when it detects suspicious behavior indicative of malware on EC2 or containers.
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Amazon Comprehend Announces the Reduction of the Minimum Requirements for Entity Recognition
Amazon is announcing that they lowered the minimal requirements for training a recognizer with plain text CSV annotation files as a result of recent advances in the models powering Amazon Comprehend. Now, you just need three documents and 25 annotations for each entity type to create a unique entity recognition model.
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AWS Announced Tiered Pricing for Its Serverless Offering Lambda
Recently, AWS announced tiered pricing for Lambda, a serverless, event-driven compute service allowing developers to run their code for virtually any application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. With tiered pricing, monthly costs for running large workloads on Lambda can be reduced.
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Are Recursive Serverless Functions the Biggest Billing Risk on the Cloud?
Forrest Brazeal, head of content at Google Cloud, recently argued that serverless functions are the cloud's biggest billing risk for developers as there's no simple way to protect against recursive calls and they can scale out almost indefinitely on all the cloud providers.
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AWS Announces AMD Based R6a Instances for Memory-Intensive Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability of the R6a instances, EC2 designed for memory-intensive workloads like SQL and NoSQL databases.. The new instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AMD Milan processors.
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AWS Expands Amazon Detective for Kubernetes Workloads on Amazon EKS
Amazon Detective is a security service in AWS that allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. Recently, AWS announced the expansion of Amazon Detective towards Kubernetes workloads on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service.
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AWS Announced Synthetic Data Generation for SageMaker Ground Truth
AWS announced that users can now create labeled synthetic data with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth. SageMaker Ground Truth is a data labeling service that makes it simple to label data and allows you the choice to use human annotators through third-party suppliers, Amazon Mechanical Turk, or your own private workforce.