(Editor’s word: Immediately, we’re altering the title of this common weekly publish from AWS Week in Overview to AWS Weekly Roundup to raised replicate the combination of latest high information and bulletins in addition to upcoming occasions you gained’t wish to miss.)

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Now on to the AWS updates. There was lots of information associated to AWS final week, and I’ve compiled a couple of bulletins and upcoming occasions it’s essential to learn about. Let’s get began!

Final Week’s Launches
Listed here are a couple of launches from final week that you just might need missed:

Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise now obtainable on Amazon WorkSpaces providers – Amazon WorkSpaces is a completely managed, safe, and dependable digital desktop within the AWS Cloud. With Amazon WorkSpaces, you enhance IT agility and maximize consumer expertise, whereas solely paying for the infrastructure that you just use. We introduced the supply of Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Amazon WorkSpaces. You possibly can carry your personal Microsoft 365 licenses (in the event that they meet Microsoft’s licensing necessities) and activate the functions at no extra price to run Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Amazon WorkSpaces providers.

AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Area is Now Open – Now you can securely retailer information in Israel whereas serving customers within the neighborhood with even decrease latency. It is because final week we launched the Tel Aviv Area to provide prospects an extra choice for operating functions and serving customers from information facilities positioned in Israel.

Amazon Join Launches – That is one in every of my favourite AWS providers to write down about due to how Amazon Join is altering our prospects’ engagement with their very own prospects. Final week, Amazon Join introduced computerized exercise scheduling based mostly on shift length, customized movement block titles, and archiving and deleting flows from the UI, to call a couple of.

Different AWS Information
A number of extra information gadgets and weblog posts you might need missed:

Customizable thresholds for well being occasions supported on Amazon CloudWatch Web Monitor – Till this announcement, the default threshold for general availability and efficiency scores to invoke a well being occasion was 95 p.c. Now, you possibly can customise the thresholds for when to invoke a well being occasion for internet-facing visitors between your finish customers and your functions hosted on AWS.

Improved AWS Backup efficiency for Amazon S3 buckets – Now you possibly can pace up your preliminary Amazon S3 backup workflow and again up buckets with greater than 3 billion objects resulting from enhancements to the pace of backups by as much as 10x for buckets with greater than 300 million objects. This efficiency enchancment is mechanically enabled at no extra price in all Areas the place AWS Backup assist for Amazon S3 is offered.

For AWS open-source information and updates, try the newest publication curated by my colleague Ricardo Sueiras to carry you the newest updates on open-source initiatives, posts, occasions, and extra.

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

Upcoming AWS Occasions
We’ve got the next upcoming occasions:

AWS Storage Day (August 9) – A one-day digital occasion the place you’ll discover ways to put together for AI/ML with the storage choices you make now, easy methods to do extra together with your price range by optimizing storage prices for on-premises and cloud information, and easy methods to ship holistic information safety on your group, together with restoration planning to assist defend towards ransomware. Be taught extra and register right here.

AWS Summit Mexico Metropolis (August 30) – Join the Summit to attach and collaborate with different like-minded people whereas studying about AWS.

AWS Group Days (August 12, 19) – Be part of these community-led conferences the place occasion logistics and content material are deliberate, sourced, and delivered by group leaders: Colombia (August 12), and West Africa (August 19).

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