AWS Weekly Roundup – CloudFront safety dashboard, EBS snapshots enhancements, and extra – November 13, 2023

This week, it was actually tough to decide on what to recap right here as a result of, as we’re getting nearer to AWS re:Invent, service groups are delivering new capabilities at an unimaginable tempo.

Final week’s launches
Listed here are a few of the launches that caught my consideration final week:

Amazon Aurora – Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now typically out there. Get a walk-through in our AWS Information Weblog put up. Right here’s a recap of information integration improvements at AWS. Optimized reads for Aurora PostgreSQL present as much as 8x improved question latency and as much as 30 p.c value financial savings for I/O-intensive purposes. Right here’s extra of a deep dive from the AWS Database Weblog.

Amazon EBS – Now you can block public sharing of EBS snapshots. Learn extra about how that works within the launch put up.

Amazon Knowledge Lifecycle Supervisor – Assist for pre- and post-script automation of EBS snapshots simplifies application-consistent snapshots. Right here’s tips on how to use it with Home windows purposes.

AWS Well being – There’s now improved visibility into deliberate lifecycle occasions like finish of ordinary assist of a Kubernetes model in Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS certificates rotations, and finish of assist for different open supply software program. Right here’s the way it works.

Amazon CloudFront – Unified safety dashboard to allow, monitor, and handle frequent safety protections in your internet purposes instantly from the CloudFront console. Learn extra at Introducing CloudFront Safety Dashboard, a Unified CDN and Safety Expertise.

Amazon Join – Diminished outbound telephony pricing throughout Europe and South America. It’s additionally simpler now to ship persistent chat experiences for finish customers.

AWS Lambda – Busy week for the Lambda group! There may be now assist for Amazon Linux 2023 as each a managed runtime and a container base picture. Extra particulars on this Compute Weblog put up. There’s additionally enhanced auto scaling for Kafka occasion sources (the Compute Weblog has a put up with extra particulars) and quicker polling scale-up charge for Amazon SQS occasions when AWS Lambda capabilities are configured with SQS.

AWS CodeBuild – Now helps AWS Lambda compute to construct and check software program packages. Examine the way it works in this put up.

Amazon SQS – Now helps JSON protocol to scale back latency and client-side CPU utilization. Extra within the launch put up. There’s additionally a brand new integration for Amazon SQS within the Amazon EventBridge Pipes console (the week earlier than that, Amazon Kinesis Knowledge Streams was additionally built-in into the EventBridge Pipes console).

Amazon SNS –  FIFO matters now assist 3,000 messages per second by default.

Amazon EventBridge – There are 22 extra Amazon CloudWatch metrics that can assist you monitor the efficiency of your occasion buses. Extra data in this put up from the AWS Compute Weblog.

Amazon OpenSearch Service – Neural search makes it simpler to create and handle semantic search purposes.

Amazon Timestream – The UNLOAD assertion simplifies exporting time-series knowledge for added insights.

Amazon Comprehend – New belief and security options with toxicity detection and immediate security classification. Learn tips on how to apply that to generative AI purposes utilizing LangChain.

AWS App Runner – Now out there in London, Mumbai, and Paris AWS Areas.

AWS Utility Migration Service – Assist for AWS App2Container replatforming  of .NET and Java primarily based purposes.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS – Now out there in ten extra AWS Areas with assist for added deployment sorts in seven Areas.

AWS International Accelerator – There’s now IPv6 assist for Community Load Balancer (NLB) endpoints. It was already out there for Utility Load Balancers (ALBs) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) situations.

Amazon GuardDuty – New machine studying (ML) functionality enhances menace detection for Amazon EKS.

Different AWS information
Another information and weblog posts that you just may need missed:

AWS Native Zones Credit score Program – You probably have low-latency or knowledge residency necessities in your utility, our Native Zones Credit score Program can get you began. Fill out our type to obtain $500 in AWS credit and apply it to a Native Zones workload.

Amazon CodeWhisperer – Customizing coding companions for organizations and optimizing for sustainability.

Sharing what we’ve discovered – Making a correction of errors doc to know what went unsuitable and what can be carried out to stop it from occurring once more.

Good suggestions for containers – Securing API endpoints utilizing Amazon API Gateway and Amazon VPC Lattice.

One other put up on this wonderful collection – Let’s Architect! Instruments for builders.

A number of highlights from Neighborhood.AWS:

Don’t miss the newest AWS open supply e-newsletter by my colleague Ricardo.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join these AWS occasions:

AWS Neighborhood Days – Be part of a community-led convention run by AWS person group leaders in your area: Uruguay (November 14), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia on November 17–18), and Guatemala (November 18).

AWS re:Invent (November 27 – December 1) – Be part of us to listen to the most recent from AWS, study from specialists, and join with the worldwide cloud neighborhood. Browse the session catalog and attendee guides and take a look at the highlights for generative AI. Within the AWS re:Invent Builder Hub you could find developer-focused classes, occasions, competitions, and content material.

Right here you possibly can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and digital occasions and developer-focused occasions.

And that’s all from me for this week. We’re now taking a break. The subsequent weekly roundup can be after re:Invent!

— Danilo

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