AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q cases, PartyRock, Amplify’s sixth birthday, and extra – November 20, 2023

Final week I noticed an astonishing 160+ new service launches. There have been so many updates that we determined to publish a weekly roundup once more. This continues the identical progressive tempo of the earlier week as we’re getting nearer to AWS re:Invent 2023.

Our Information Weblog staff can be finalizing new weblog posts for re:Invent to introduce superior launches with service groups on your studying pleasure. Jeff Barr shared The Street to AWS re:Invent 2023 to clarify our running a blog journey and course of. Please keep tuned within the subsequent week!

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

Amazon EC2 DL2q cases – New DL2q cases are powered by Qualcomm AI 100 Customary accelerators and are the first to function Qualcomm’s AI know-how within the public cloud. With eight Qualcomm AI 100 Customary accelerators and 128 GiB of complete accelerator reminiscence, you possibly can run in style generative synthetic intelligence (AI) functions and lengthen to edge gadgets throughout smartphones, autonomous driving, private compute, and prolonged actuality headsets to develop and validate these AI workloads earlier than deploying.

PartyRock for Amazon Bedrock – We launched PartyRock, a enjoyable and intuitive hands-on, generative AI app-building playground powered by Amazon Bedrock. You’ll be able to experiment, be taught all about immediate engineering, construct mini-apps, and share them with your mates—all with out writing any code or creating an AWS account.

You can also now entry the Meta Llama 2 Chat 13B basis mannequin and Cohere Command Mild, Embed English, and multilingual fashions for Amazon Bedrock.

AWS Amplify celebrates its sixth birthday – We introduced six new launches; a brand new documentation web site, help for Subsequent.js 14 with our internet hosting and JavaScript library, added customized token suppliers and an computerized React Native social sign-in replace to Amplify Auth, new ChangePassword and DeleteUser account settings elements, and up to date all Amplify UI packages to make use of new Amplify JavaScript v6. You too can use wildcard subdomains when utilizing a customized area along with your Amplify utility deployed to AWS Amplify Internet hosting.

Additionally take a look at different Information Weblog posts about main launches revealed prior to now week:

Different AWS service launches
Listed below are another bundled function launches per AWS service:

Amazon Athena  – You should use a new cost-based optimizer (CBO) to boost question efficiency based mostly on desk and column statistics, collected by AWS Glue Knowledge Catalog and Athena JDBC 3.x driver, a brand new various that helps nearly all authentication plugins. You too can use Amazon EMR Studio to develop and run interactive queries on Amazon Athena.

Amazon CloudWatch – You should use a brand new CloudWatch metric referred to as EBS Stalled I/O Test to watch the well being of your Amazon EBS volumes, the common expression for Amazon CloudWatch Logs Reside Tail filter sample syntax to go looking and match related log occasions, observability of SAP Sybase ASE database in CloudWatch Utility Insights, and as much as two stats instructions in a Log Insights question to carry out aggregations on the outcomes.

Amazon CodeCatalyst – You’ll be able to connect with a Amazon Digital Non-public Cloud (Amazon VPC) from CodeCatalyst Workflows, provision infrastructure utilizing Terraform inside CodeCatalyst Workflows, entry CodeCatalyst along with your workforce identities configured in IAM Id Middle, and create groups made up of members of the CodeCatalyst area.

Amazon Join – You should use a pre-built queue efficiency dashboard and Contact Lens conversational analytics dashboard to view and examine real-time and historic aggregated queue efficiency. You should use fast responses for chats, beforehand written codecs equivalent to typing in ‘/#greet’ to insert a customized response, and scanning attachments to detect malware or different undesirable content material.

AWS Glue – AWS Glue for Apache Spark added new six database connectors: Teradata, SAP HANA, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Vertica, and MongoDB, in addition to the native connectivity to Amazon OpenSearch Service.

AWS Lambda – You’ll be able to see single pane view of metrics, logs, and traces within the AWS Lambda console and superior logging controls to natively seize logs in JSON structured format. You’ll be able to view the SAM template on the Lambda console and export the operate’s configuration to AWS Utility Composer. AWS Lambda additionally helps Java 21 and NodeJS 20 variations constructed on the brand new Amazon Linux 2023 runtime.

AWS Native Zones in Dallas – You’ll be able to allow the new Native Zone in Dallas, Texas, us-east-1-dfw-2a, with Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i, R6i, C6gn, and M6g cases and Amazon EBS quantity sorts gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You too can entry Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Utility Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Join on this new Native Zone to help a broad set of workloads on the edge.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) – You’ll be able to standardize entry management to Kafka sources utilizing AWS Id and Entry Administration (IAM) and construct Kafka purchasers for Amazon MSK Serverless written in all programming languages. These are open supply shopper helper libraries and code samples for in style languages, together with Java, Python, Go, and JavaScript. Additionally, Amazon MSK now helps an enhanced model of Apache Kafka 3.6.0 that provides typically obtainable Tiered Storage and robotically sends you storage capability alerts when you find yourself vulnerable to exhausting your storage.

Amazon OpenSearch Service Ingestion – You’ll be able to migrate your information from Elasticsearch model 7.x clusters to the newest variations of Amazon OpenSearch Service and use persistent buffering to guard the sturdiness of incoming information.

Amazon RDS –Amazon RDS for MySQL now helps creating active-active clusters utilizing the Group Replication plugin, upgrading MySQL 5.7 snapshots to MySQL 8.0, and Innovation Launch model of MySQL 8.1.

Amazon RDS Customized for SQL Server extends point-in-time restoration help for as much as 1,000 databases, helps Service Grasp Key Retention to make use of clear information encryption (TDE), table- and column-level encryption, DBMail and linked servers, and use SQL Server Developer version with the carry your individual media (BYOM).

Moreover, Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now helps minor model upgrades and system upkeep updates with sometimes lower than one second of downtime when utilizing Amazon RDS Proxy.

AWS Companion Central – You should use an improved person expertise in AWS Companion Central to construct and promote your choices and the new Investments tab within the Companion Analytics Dashboard to realize actionable insights. Now you can hyperlink accounts and related customers between Companion Central and AWS Market and use an enhanced co-sell expertise with APN Buyer Engagements (ACE) supervisor.

Amazon QuickSight – You’ll be able to programmatically handle person entry and customized permissions help for roles to limit QuickSight performance to the QuickSight account for IAM Id Middle and Energetic Listing utilizing APIs. You too can use shared restricted folders, a Contributor function and help for information supply asset sorts in folders and the Customized Week Begin function, an addition designed to boost the information evaluation expertise for patrons throughout numerous industries and social contexts.

AWS Trusted Advisor – You should use new APIs to programmatically entry Trusted Advisor greatest practices checks, suggestions, and prioritized suggestions and 37 new Amazon RDS checks that present greatest practices steering by analyzing DB occasion configuration, utilization, and efficiency information.

There’s much more launch information that I haven’t coated. See AWS What’s New for extra particulars.

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For those who’re not in a position to attend re:Invent in individual this yr, we’re providing the choice to livestream our Keynotes and Innovation Talks. With the registration for on-line cross, you should have entry to on-demand keynote, Innovation Talks, and chosen breakout periods after the occasion.

– Channy