Whereas I loved just a few days off in California to get a dose of vitamin sea, rather a lot has occurred within the AWS universe. Let’s have a look collectively!

Final Week’s Launches
Listed here are some launches that bought my consideration:

Amazon MWAA now helps Apache Airflow model 2.6 – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you need to use to arrange and function end-to-end knowledge pipelines within the cloud. Apache Airflow model 2.6 introduces essential safety updates and bug fixes that improve the safety and reliability of your workflows. In case you’re presently working Apache Airflow model 2.x, now you can seamlessly improve to model 2.6.3. Try this AWS Huge Knowledge Weblog submit to be taught extra.

Amazon EMR Studio provides assist for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained entry management – Amazon EMR Studio is a web-based built-in growth atmosphere (IDE) for totally managed Jupyter notebooks that run on Amazon EMR clusters. If you hook up with EMR clusters from EMR Studio workspaces, now you can select the AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) function that you just need to join with. Apache Spark interactive notebooks will entry solely the information and assets permitted by insurance policies hooked up to this runtime IAM function. When knowledge is accessed from knowledge lakes managed with AWS Lake Formation, you’ll be able to implement desk and column-level entry utilizing insurance policies hooked up to this runtime function. For extra particulars, take a look on the Amazon EMR documentation.

AWS Safety Hub launches 12 new safety controls – AWS Safety Hub is a cloud safety posture administration (CSPM) service that performs safety greatest apply checks, aggregates alerts, and allows automated remediation. With the newly launched controls, Safety Hub now helps three extra AWS providers: Amazon Athena, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and Amazon Neptune. Safety Hub has additionally added a further management in opposition to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS Safety Hub now gives 276 controls. You could find extra info within the AWS Safety Hub documentation.

Further AWS providers obtainable within the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Area – The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Area opened on August 1, 2023. This previous week, AWS Service Catalog, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EFS, and Amazon Kinesis Knowledge Analytics have been added to the record of accessible providers within the Israel (Tel Aviv) Area. Examine the AWS Regional Providers Listing for essentially the most up-to-date availability info.

For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure you control the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS Information
Listed here are some extra weblog posts and information objects that you just would possibly discover fascinating:

AWS acknowledged as a Chief in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Heart as a Service with Amazon Join – AWS was named a Chief for the primary time since Amazon Join, our versatile, AI-powered cloud contact middle, was launched in 2017. Learn the complete story right here. 

Generate artistic promoting utilizing generative AI –  This AWS Machine Studying Weblog submit reveals how one can generate charming and progressive commercials at scale utilizing generative AI. It discusses the strategy of inpainting and how one can seamlessly create picture backgrounds, visually beautiful and interesting content material, and lowering undesirable picture artifacts.

AWS open-source information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open-source publication by which he highlights new open-source initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Group.

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

Construct On Generative AI – Your favourite weekly Twitch present about all issues generative AI is again for season 2 at the moment! Each Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Emily and Darko have a look at new technical and scientific patterns on AWS, inviting visitor audio system to demo their work and present us how they constructed one thing new to enhance the state of generative AI.

In at the moment’s episode, Emily and Darko mentioned the newest fashions LlaMa-2 and Falcon, and explored them in retrieval-augmented era design patterns. You possibly can watch the video right here. Try present notes and the complete record of episodes on neighborhood.aws.

AWS NLP Convention 2023 – Be part of this in-person occasion on September 13–14 in London to listen to concerning the newest traits, ground-breaking analysis, and progressive functions that leverage pure language processing (NLP) capabilities on AWS. This yr, the convention will primarily deal with giant language fashions (LLMs), as they type the spine of many generative AI functions and use circumstances. Register right here.

AWS World Summits – The 2023 AWS Summits season is sort of coming to an finish with the final two in-person occasions in Mexico Metropolis (August 30) and Johannesburg (September 26).

AWS Group Days – Be part of a community-led convention run by AWS person group leaders in your area: West Africa (August 19), Taiwan (August 26), Aotearoa (September 6), Lebanon (September 9), and Munich (September 14).

AWS re:Invent (November 27 – December 1) – Be part of us to listen to the newest from AWS, be taught from consultants, and join with the worldwide cloud neighborhood. Registration is now open.

You possibly can browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.

That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!

— Antje

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