AWS Weekly News Roundup Issue #206

Good morning,?

Happy Friday, and welcome to my weekly?AWS News Round-Up!? ?

I?enjoyed getting out this week to meet some of our UK-based team members and our newest recruit in person for the first time. Remote working is fantastic, but in-person meetings are great for rapport-building.

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If you're new to the Round-Up, every week?I handpick the most interesting AWS-related?articles from across the Internet and share them directly into your inbox. No marketing, just useful and informative?content (I hope).??Read on for?new AWS product or feature releases,?technical how-to?articles, and?general business updates.

What’s New??

• AWS Security Hub has introduced 8 new security controls to improve security monitoring and compliance management across AWS services, giving users better insight and control over potential risks ?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing enhanced security by enabling private connections between Redshift Serverless and your VPC without exposing traffic to the public internet? on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Glue now supports job queuing, enabling customers to efficiently scale their data workloads by automatically managing and distributing jobs across available resources to prevent bottlenecks? via Noritaka Sekiyama, Radhakrishnan Rajagopal , Matt S., and Simon Kern on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Stability AI's text-to-image models are now available through Amazon Bedrock, enabling users to easily integrate powerful generative AI capabilities for creating images from text prompts ?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Network Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeouts, allowing users to fine-tune timeout settings for better control over long-lived connections in their applications? on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS introduces new zone groups for availability zones in regions, enhancing how customers can manage and optimize multi-AZ deployments for high availability and fault tolerance ?via Macey N. on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS has introduced a configurable TCP idle timeout feature for Gateway Load Balancer, enabling customers to customize connection timeout settings to better manage long-lived, idle TCP connections ?via Ankit Chadha and Milind Kulkarni on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Technical How-To

• Learn how to implement advanced prompt engineering with Amazon Bedrock to enhance the performance and outcomes of generative AI models across various use cases, enabling more effective AI solutions? via Jonah Craig, Doron Bleiberg, and Manish Chugh on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Leverage generative AI to efficiently extract insights from Amazon CloudWatch logs, simplifying analysis and enhancing operational monitoring with advanced capabilities? via Kevin Lewin, Helen A. and Hetansh Madhani on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Discover how to assess resilience at scale by integrating Amazon QuickSight with Amazon Resilience Hub, providing detailed visual analytics to help you monitor and improve the resilience of your cloud workloads via Subha K., Ravindra Kori and Snehal Nahar ?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Learn how to visualize AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager data using Amazon QuickSight to gain insights into patch compliance and trends through custom reports and dashboards ?via Eloi da Silva on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

?Business Updates?

• A researcher estimates that Amazon EC2 runs nearly half a million servers, showcasing the vast scale of AWS's cloud infrastructure ?on COMPUTERWOCHE
• The Overseas Investment Office has approved AWS's Project Kuiper satellite investment in NZ, paving the way for Amazon's ambitious satellite broadband initiative to deliver global internet coverage ?via Rob O'Neill on Reseller News NZ
• AWS has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, highlighting its innovation and strength in AI-powered developer tools ?via Channy Yun (???) on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

That’s all for this week! Tune in next week for another round-up of everything I think you should know about what’s happening in the world of?AWS. If you find this useful, please share it with friends and colleagues via the social links below, or?send them to our website to sign up.

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Kind regards,

Karl Robinson

CEO & Co-Founder

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