AWS Goodies - August 6, 2024

I am back at my home keyboard after a very quick and very worthwhile trip to Tokyo last week. I visited University of Tsukuba to learn more about our AI partnership, spoke at AWS AI August, and met with a group of brand-new AWS colleagues.

Here are the latest and greatest AWS goodies that I have collected since my last post:

Elastic / Anthropic / Bedrock - Read our brand new case study, Elastic Helps Users Improve Security Posture and Productivity Using Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude 3 Models, to learn how Elastic helps their customers to find information faster using an AI-powered relevance engine running on AWS. Driven by Anthropic 's Claude model running on Amazon Bedrock, Elastic's AI Assistant benefits from Claude's 200K token window, allowing users to review security logs, analyze data, and ask questions in seconds.

Amazon Q Developer - AWS CEO Matt Garman shared some incredible stats about Amazon Q Developer:

To learn more about this cool project, read Amazon Q Developer just reached a $260 million dollar milestone.

Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry - In a brand new post, Benjamen Pyle shows you how to get Powerful Visibility with Rust, Lambda, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry. His solution uses Tokio's tracing library and an OTel layer to instrument and track function invocations, which are routed to a Rust crate containing a Datadog extension which does the actual logging.

ChangeDataCapture for DynamoDB at Scale - Akash Kashyap of Segment wrote a very cool story to share their cost reduction and simplification journey, resulting in $0.6 Million/Year savings by using S3 for ChangeDataCapture for DynamoDB Table. The DynamoDB table in question holds 958 billion items and continues to grow. In the post, Akash explains how they landed on a v3 system that uses Amazon S3 to hold change records, ultimately migrating from BigTable to S3 in real time without disrupting live traffic.

URL Monitoring with CloudWatch Synthetics - Roberto Ferreira talked about Implementing AWS CloudWatch Synthetics for Real-Time Application URL Monitoring. As he says:

In this hands-on project, I engaged in the advanced aspects of AWS CloudWatch, focusing on implementing CloudWatch Synthetics for real-time application URL monitoring, integrated with CloudWatch Alarms, SNS, and AWS Chatbot for immediate alerts on Slack.

Read the full post to learn more about how he went about this.

AWS and Multicloud - While I was traveling, my colleagues published my post, AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements. In the post, I cover the AWS approach to multicloud, provide you with some real-world examples, and review some of the newest multicloud and hybrid capabilties found across the lineup of AWS services.

Our goal with AWS is to make you successful no matter what architectural choices you have made. In this post I want to outline our approach, share some capabilities that our customers have been using over the years, and provide you with an update on some of the more recent service announcements and content that we have created to give you guidance that will help you to succeed.

And that's all for today!

-- Jeff;