As regular, rather a lot has occurred within the Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) universe this previous week. I’m additionally enthusiastic about all of the AWS Neighborhood occasions and initiatives which might be occurring all over the world. Let’s have a look collectively!
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that received my consideration:
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now helps managed occasion draining – Managed occasion draining permits you to gracefully shutdown workloads deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) situations by safely stopping and rescheduling them to different, non-terminating situations. This new functionality streamlines infrastructure upkeep, resembling deploying a brand new AMI model, eliminating the necessity for customized options to shutdown situations with out disrupting their workloads. To be taught extra, take a look at Nathan’s publish on the AWS Containers Weblog.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now helps multi-source replication – Utilizing multi-source replication, you may configure a number of RDS for MySQL database situations as sources for a single goal database occasion. This function facilitates duties resembling merging shards right into a single goal, consolidating knowledge for analytics, or creating long-term backups inside a single RDS for MySQL occasion. The Amazon RDS for MySQL Person Information has all the main points.
Amazon EMR Studio now comes with simplified create expertise and improved begin instances – With the simplified console expertise for creating EMR Studio, you may launch interactive and batch workloads with default settings extra simply. The improved begin instances allow you to launch EMR Studio Workspaces for performing interactive evaluation in notebooks in seconds. Take a look on the Amazon EMR Person Information to be taught extra.
Different AWS information
Listed below are some extra initiatives, packages, and information gadgets that you just would possibly discover attention-grabbing:
Summarize information utilizing Amazon Bedrock – My colleague Danilo constructed this software to summarize the latest information from an RSS or Atom feed utilizing Amazon Bedrock. The applying is deployed as an AWS Lambda perform. The perform downloads the latest entries from an RSS or Atom feed, downloads the linked content material, extracts textual content, and makes a abstract.
AWS Neighborhood Builders program – Keen on becoming a member of our AWS Neighborhood Builders program? The 2024 software is open till January 28. The AWS Neighborhood Builders program presents technical sources, training, and networking alternatives to AWS technical fanatics who’re obsessed with sharing information and connecting with the technical group.
AWS Person Teams – The AWS Person Group Yaounde Cameroon launched into a 12-week workshop problem. Over 12 weeks, individuals explored numerous elements of AWS and cloud computing, together with structure, safety, storage, and extra, to develop abilities and share information. You’ll be able to learn extra about this superb initiative on this LinkedIn publish.
AWS open-source information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply publication by which he highlights new open supply initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Neighborhood.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS Innovate: AI/ML and Information Version – Register now for the Asia Pacific & Japan AWS Innovate on-line convention on February 22, 2024, to discover, uncover, and learn to innovate with synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML). Select from over 50 periods in three languages and get hands-on with technical demos aimed toward generative AI builders.
AWS Neighborhood re:Invent re:Caps – Be part of a Neighborhood re:Cap occasion organized by volunteers from AWS Person Teams and AWS Cloud Golf equipment all over the world to be taught concerning the newest bulletins from AWS re:Invent.
You’ll be able to browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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