This previous week our service groups proceed to innovate in your behalf, and loads has occurred within the Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) universe. I’ll additionally share about all of the AWS Neighborhood occasions and initiatives which are taking place world wide.

Let’s dive in!

Final week’s launches
Listed here are some launches that obtained my consideration:

AWS Step Capabilities provides integration for 33 companies together with Amazon Q – AWS Step Capabilities is a visible workflow service able to orchestrating over 11,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS companies to assist prospects construct distributed functions at scale. This week, AWS Step Capabilities expands its AWS SDK integrations with assist for 33 further AWS companies, together with Amazon Q, AWS B2B Knowledge Interchange, and Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Join introduces assist for computerized visitors encryption with TLS Certificates – Amazon ECS launches assist for computerized visitors encryption with Transport Layer Safety (TLS) certificates for its networking functionality known as ECS Service Join. With this assist, ECS Service Join permits your functions to determine a safe connection by encrypting your community visitors.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro assist Kubernetes model 1.29 – Kubernetes model 1.29 launched a number of new options and bug fixes. You may create new EKS clusters utilizing v1.29 and improve your current clusters to v1.29 utilizing the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line interface, or via an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) software.

IPv6 occasion bundles on Amazon Lightsail – With these new occasion bundles, you’ll be able to stand up and operating rapidly on IPv6-only with out the necessity for a public IPv4 tackle with the benefit of use and ease of Amazon Lightsail. If in case you have current Lightsail situations with a public IPv4 tackle, you’ll be able to migrate your situations to IPv6-only in a couple of easy steps.

Amazon Digital Non-public Cloud (Amazon VPC) helps idempotency for route desk and community ACL creation – Idempotent creation of route tables and community ACLs is meant for patrons that use community orchestration programs or automation scripts that create route tables and community ACLs as a part of a workflow. It lets you safely retry creation with out further unwanted side effects.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) pronounces audio-only pricing for Low-Latency Streaming – Amazon IVS is a managed stay streaming answer that’s designed to make low-latency or real-time video accessible to viewers world wide. It now provides audio-only pricing for its Low-Latency Streaming functionality at 1/tenth of the prevailing HD video price.

Sellers can resell third-party skilled companies in AWS Market – AWS Market sellers, together with unbiased software program distributors (ISVs), consulting companions, and channel companions, can now resell third-party skilled companies in AWS Market. Companies can embrace implementation, assessments, managed companies, coaching, or premium assist.

Introducing the AWS Small and Medium Enterprise (SMB) Competency – That is the primary go-to-market AWS Specialization designed for companions who ship to small and medium-sized prospects. The SMB Competency offers enhanced advantages for AWS Companions to speculate and give attention to SMB buyer enterprise, comparable to turning into the go-to normal for participation in new pilots and gross sales initiatives and receiving distinctive entry to scale demand era engines.

For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, be sure you keep watch over the What’s New at AWS web page.

X in Y – We launched current companies and occasion sorts in further Areas:

• Amazon Q in QuickSight is now accessible in Europe (Frankfurt). With Amazon Q in QuickSight, enterprise customers can generate compelling knowledge tales that present narratives of information, create dashboard summaries to share key insights from knowledge in seconds, and confidently reply questions not answered by dashboards and reviews.
• Amazon Launch Wizard is now accessible in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Europe (Spain, Zurich). AWS Launch Wizard offers a step-by-step information to assist dimension, configure, and deploy AWS sources for SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver programs constructed on SAP HANA and Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) utilizing software programming interfaces (APIs) or a console-based expertise.
• Amazon RDS Customized for Oracle is now accessible in Europe (Paris). Through the use of Amazon RDS Customized for Oracle, you’ll be able to profit from the agility of a managed database service, with options comparable to automated backups and point-in-time restoration, and likewise assist meet your database software’s customization necessities.
• Amazon EC2 M7a, R7a situations now accessible in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). M7a and R7a situations, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a most frequency of three.7 GHz, ship as much as 50 p.c larger efficiency in comparison with M6a and R6a situations, respectively.
• Amazon EC2 C7i situations at the moment are accessible in Europe (Frankfurt) and South America (São Paulo). C7i situations are powered by customized 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors solely accessible on AWS. They provide as much as 15 p.c higher efficiency over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by different cloud suppliers.
• Amazon EC2 Excessive Reminiscence situations now accessible in Europe (Stockholm). Amazon EC2 Excessive Reminiscence situations are licensed by SAP for operating Enterprise Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Knowledge Mart Options on HANA, Enterprise Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in manufacturing environments.
• Amazon Join SMS is now accessible in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney). Amazon Join SMS makes it straightforward so that you can resolve buyer points by way of textual content messaging.

Different AWS information
Listed here are some further initiatives, packages, and information objects that you simply may discover attention-grabbing:

Export a Software program Invoice of Supplies utilizing Amazon Inspector – Producing an SBOM offers you important safety info that gives you visibility into specifics about your software program provide chain, together with the packages you utilize probably the most often and the associated vulnerabilities that may have an effect on your complete firm. My colleague Varun Sharma in South Africa reveals the best way to export a consolidated SBOM for the sources monitored by Amazon Inspector throughout your group in business normal codecs, together with CycloneDx and SPDX. It additionally shares insights and approaches for analyzing SBOM artifacts utilizing Amazon Athena.

AWS open supply information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply e-newsletter during which he highlights new open supply initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Neighborhood.

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

AWS Innovate: AI/ML and Knowledge 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 classes in three languages and get hands-on with technical demos geared toward generative AI builders.

AWS Summit Paris  – The AWS Summit Paris is an annual occasion that’s held in Paris, France. It’s a nice alternative for cloud computing professionals from all around the world to study in regards to the newest AWS applied sciences, community with different professionals, and collaborate on initiatives. The Summit is free to attend and options keynote displays, breakout classes, and hands-on labs. Registrations are open!

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 world wide to study in regards to the newest bulletins from AWS re:Invent.

You may browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.

That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

— seb

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