My reminiscences of Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) re:Invent 2023 are nonetheless recent even once I’m presently wrapping up my actions in Jakarta after collaborating in AWS Group Day Indonesia. It was an awesome expertise, from delivering chalk talks and having considerate discussions with AWS service groups, to assembly with AWS Heroes, AWS Group Builders, and AWS Consumer Group leaders. AWS re:Invent brings the worldwide AWS neighborhood collectively to study, join, and be impressed by innovation. For me, that spirit of connection is what makes AWS re:Invent all the time particular.

Right here’s a fast look of my highlights at AWS re:Invent and AWS Group Day Indonesia:

Should you missed AWS re:Invent, you may watch the keynotes and periods on demand. Additionally, take a look at the AWS Information Editorial Staff’s High bulletins of AWS re:Invent 2023 for all the main launches.

Latest AWS launches
Listed here are among the launches that caught my consideration prior to now two weeks:

Question MySQL and PostgreSQL with AWS Amplify – On this publish, Channy wrote how one can now join your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to AWS Amplify with just some clicks. It generates a GraphQL API to question your database tables utilizing AWS CDK.

Migration Assistant for Amazon OpenSearch Service – With this self-service resolution, you may easily migrate out of your self-managed clusters to Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections.

AWS Lambda simplifies connectivity to Amazon RDS and RDS Proxy – Now you may join your AWS Lambda to Amazon RDS or RDS proxy utilizing the AWS Lambda console. With a guided workflow, this enchancment helps to attenuate complexities and efforts to shortly launch a database occasion and appropriately join a Lambda operate.

New no-code dashboard utility to visualise IoT knowledge – With this announcement, now you can visualize and work together with operational knowledge from AWS IoT SiteWise utilizing a brand new open supply Web of Issues (IoT) dashboard.

Amazon Rekognition improves Face Liveness accuracy and consumer expertise – This launch supplies larger accuracy in detecting spoofed faces to your face-based authentication purposes.

AWS Lambda helps further concurrency metrics for improved quota monitoring – Add CloudWatch metrics to your Lambda quotas, to enhance visibility into concurrency limits.

AWS Malaysia now helps 3D-Safe authentication – This launch allows 3DS2 transaction authentication required by banks and cost networks, facilitating your safe on-line funds.

Saying AWS CloudFormation template era for Amazon EventBridge Pipes – With this announcement, now you can streamline the deployment of your EventBridge assets with CloudFormation templates, accelerating event-driven structure (EDA) improvement.

Enhanced knowledge safety for CloudWatch Logs – With the improved knowledge safety, CloudWatch Logs helps determine and redact delicate knowledge in your logs, stopping unintentional publicity of private knowledge.

Ship SMS by way of Amazon SNS in Asia Pacific – With this announcement, now you should use SMS messaging throughout Asia Pacific from the Jakarta Area.

Lambda provides assist for Python 3.12 – This launch brings the most recent Python model to your Lambda capabilities.

CloudWatch Synthetics upgrades Node.js runtime – Now you should use Node.js 16.1 runtimes to your canary capabilities.

Handle EBS Volumes to your EC2 fleets – This launch simplifies attaching and managing EBS volumes throughout your EC2 fleets.

See you subsequent yr!
That is the final AWS Weekly Roundup for this yr, and we’d prefer to thanks for being our great readers. We’ll be again to share extra launches for you on January 8, 2024.

Completely satisfied holidays!

— Donnie