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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.
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Amazon Redshift Serverless Generally Available to Automatically Scale Data Warehouse
Amazon recently announced the general availability of Redshift Serverless, an elastic option to scale data warehouse capacity. The new service allows data analysts, developers and data scientists to run and scale analytics without provisioning and managing data warehouse clusters.
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AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lambda Powertools TypeScript. The set of utilities for Node.js Lambda functions helps developers follow best practices for tracing, structured logging, and custom metrics.
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AWS Announces General Availability of its Cloud WAN for Centralized Workload Management
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of its Cloud WAN solution allowing enterprises to set up and manage a complete WAN environment from a single cloud-based console.
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AWS Enhances its Step Functions Experience with Workflow Collections
AWS Step Functions is a serverless function orchestrator that makes it easy to sequence AWS Lambda functions and multiple AWS services into business-critical applications. AWS recently introduced a new experience to its Step Functions with Function Workflow Collections allowing users to create Step Functions workflows easier.
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Amazon Unveils ML-Powered Coding Assistant CodeWhisperer
Amazon launched CodeWhisperer, an ML-Powered Coding Companion which provides code recommendations based on developers' comments in natural language and their code in the integrated development environment. The machine learning-powered service increases developer productivity.
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TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS
AWS recently announced that TLS 1.2 is going to become the minimum protocol level for API endpoints. The cloud provider will remove backward compatibility and support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 on all APIs and regions by June 2023.