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Automated Horizontal Scaling With Amazon Aurora Limitless Database
AWS recently announced the preview of Amazon Aurora Limitless Database, a new capability supporting automated horizontal scaling to process millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data in a single Aurora database.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Linux 2023 Runtime for Lambda
AWS recently introduced Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) as a managed runtime and container base image for its Lambda service. The runtime provides an OS-only environment for developers to run Lambda functions.
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Amazon DataZone Generally Available: Share and Access Data across AWS Accounts
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon DataZone. This data management service allows users to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on-premises, and third-party sources.
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Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at Capital One: George Mao at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, George Mao, a senior distinguished engineer at Capital One, presented on his company's journey into serverless, the best practices they picked up, and the lessons learned along the way. The session was part of the “Architecting for the Cloud” track.
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AWS Expands its Cloud Mac Minis Offering with M2 Pro Mac Instances
AWS recently announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances (mac2-m2pro.metal) as a virtual Mac offering on its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2).
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AWS Launches AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory
AWS recently launched the AWS Private Certificate Authority (CA) Connector for Active Directory (AD). It is a new feature that allows enterprises to use AWS Private CA as a drop-in replacement for self-managed enterprise certificate authorities without the need to deploy, patch, or update local agents or proxy servers.
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Enhanced Error Handling for Step Functions Provides Developers with Fine-Grained Control over Retry
AWS recently announced the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in AWS Step Functions workflows allowing developers to identify errors more clearly and provide them with fine-grained control over their retry strategies.
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Faster Standard Retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Batch Operations
Recently AWS announced the general availability of faster standard retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. According to the company, the retrieval can be up to 85% faster and applies to the Standard retrieval tier when using S3 Batch Operations.
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Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex Instances Now Available for General-Purpose Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances, equipped with custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Sapphire Rapids). The Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are instance types intended for general-purpose workloads providing a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources.
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AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Route 53 Resolver on AWS Outposts Rack
AWS recently announced that Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now available on AWS Outposts rack providing on-premises services and applications with local Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution directly from Outposts. In addition, local Route 53 Resolver endpoints also enable DNS resolution between Outposts and on-premises DNS servers.
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AWS Introduces New Clickstream Analytics on AWS Solution for Mobile and Web Applications
AWS recently announced a new service called Clickstream Analytics on AWS, an end-to-end solution to collect, ingest, analyze, and visualize clickstream data inside organizations’ web and mobile applications.
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New AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB in Preview
Recently AWS announced the preview release of the AWS .NET Distributed Cache Provider for DynamoDB. This library enables Amazon DynamoDB to be used as the storage for ASP.NET Core’s distributed cache framework.
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New Migration Capabilities in Application Migration Service: Global View, Import/Export and More
AWS recently announced three significant updates with Global View, Import and Export from local disk, and additional post-launch actions in the Application Migration Service (MGN) to enhance migration capabilities.
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AWS Step Functions Introduces Versions and Aliases for Enhanced Deployment Resiliency
Recently, AWS announced the availability of versions and aliases in Step Functions to improve resiliency for deployments of serverless workflows.