|
The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event, it’s a good time to learn more and understand how recent announcements can help you solve your problems. As usual, we’ve been keeping you updated on our major AWS re:Invent 2024 contribution announcements.
You can now watch keynotes and sessions on the AWS Event YouTube channel. This year, Andy Jassy, now president and CEO of Amazon, returned to re:Invent and shared some ideas in these videos.
Werner Vogels, Amazon’s vice president and CTO, drew on the experience Amazon has built at scale and shared critical lessons and strategies he learned for managing complex systems in his keynote address.
Last week’s launch
Here are the launches that caught my eye.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – A new generation of FPGA-powered instances (F2) is now available. Unlike a purpose-built chip designed with a single function in mind and then hard-wired to implement it, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be programmed in the field after being plugged into a PC board socket. We are also introducing Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TiB and 8TiB memory. U7i instances are ideal for running large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle and SQL Server. Graviton-based 8th generation instances now support bandwidth configurations for Amazon VPC and Amazon EBS.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails – We’re reducing prices by up to 85% to help you implement security for your generative AI applications. We are also adding multilingual features with support for Spanish and French.
Amazon Simple Email Services (SES) – Now offers Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resiliency and announces the availability of Deterministic Easy DKIM (DEED), a new form of global identity that simplifies the use of DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) management.
AWS Cloud Training – Improved version of the AWS Secrets Manager transformation introducing automatic AWS Lambda upgrades.
Amazon Lex – Launches new multilingual speech streaming models that improve recognition accuracy through two specialized groupings: a European model (for Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, German, and Spanish) and an Asia-Pacific model (for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese).
Amazon Connect – Now supports mobile chat push notifications on iOS and Android devices. This way, you can be proactively notified when there is a new message from an agent or chatbot, even if you are not actively chatting. Now you can also configure holidays and other deviations from contact center operating hours.
AWS Security Hub – Now supports automatic security checks in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v4.0.1, a compliance framework that provides a set of rules and guidelines for the secure handling of credit and debit card information.
AWS Resource Explorer – Supports 59 new resource types including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Amazon Kendra, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, and Amazon SageMaker.
Amazon SageMaker AI – Inference-optimized Amazon EC2 G6e (powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPU) and P5e (powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU) instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker.
Amazon Redshift – Now supports automatically and incrementally refreshing materialized table views in zero-ETL integration. Previously, you had to run a full update in this case.
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code – Amazon CloudWatch Logs now includes Live Tail, an interactive log streaming and analysis feature that provides real-time insight into your logs and facilitates application development and troubleshooting.
More AWS news
Here are some other projects, blog posts and news you might be interested in:
Build a managed transactional data lake with Amazon S3 Tables – Just introduced at re:Invent 2024, Amazon S3 Tables is the first cloud object storage with built-in Apache Iceberg support and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. This AWS Storage blog post provides an overview of S3 tables and an example of how to create a transactional data lake with S3 tables using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR.
Introducing Cross-Region Connectivity for AWS PrivateLink – Learn more about this recent launch that can be used to share and access Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint services across different AWS regions.
Marc Brooker, VP/Distinguished Engineer at AWS, shared several posts on his personal blog about what Amazon Aurora DSQL is, how it works, and how to get the most out of it:
That’s it for this week. Check back next Monday for another weekly recap!
— Danilo
This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of exciting news and announcements from AWS!