AWS Weekly News Roundup Issue #207
Karl Robinson
CEO & Co-Founder at Logicata, an AWS Advanced Partner | AWS Community Builder | AWS User Group Leader | AWS Certified
Good afternoon,
Happy Friday, and welcome to my weekly?AWS News Round-Up! ??
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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??
- Amazon ECS now supports Graviton-based Spot instances with AWS Fargate, offering cost-efficient, scalable compute capacity for containerized applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
- Amazon EC2 P5e instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, are now generally available, offering high-performance infrastructure for machine learning and HPC workloads?via Avadhoot (Avi) Kulkarni, Aman Shanbhag, Pavel Belevich, Khaled Rawashdeh, Karthik Venna, Maxime Hugues, Ph.D., and Shruti Koparkar on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Backup Audit Manager now offers new control features that allow users to audit and manage backup resources across their environment, improving compliance and governance capabilities?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon RDS for MySQL now offers zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, enabling near real-time analytics for seamless data synchronization and powerful insights across platforms?via Matheus Guimaraes on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS CLI v2 now offers enhanced support for Linux, including updated package management, extended compatibility, and additional installation methods, providing developers with more flexibility and seamless CLI experience on Linux systems?via Ahmed M. on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Technical How-To
- Gain deeper visibility into AWS Backup activities by using Amazon Managed Grafana to create detailed dashboards, helping you monitor and analyze backup performance and compliance?via Anjali Sharma, Dheeraj Achra, and Yash Bindlish on Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
- Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus integrates with Amazon Bedrock's natural language models to simplify monitoring, enabling users to gain detailed insights from complex Prometheus metrics using intuitive, natural language queries?via Vikram Venkataraman, Imaya Kumar Jagannathan, Olsonian and Sudheer Sangunni on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon CloudWatch Logs now includes data protection features that help detect and safeguard sensitive information within log data, enhancing security for businesses using AWS services?via Sasi Kiran Malladi and David Myers on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS Lambda Extensions - benefits, challenges, and ideal use cases and how to optimize their use for extending Lambda functionality efficientlyvia Ran Isenberg on DEV Community
- The challenges and considerations of building applications entirely on AWS - how developers can effectively leverage AWS services, manage costs, and enhance scalability for cloud-native development?via Johannes Koch on DEV Community
?Business Updates?
- Jeff Bezos' Project Kuiper is set to receive UK approval, intensifying competition with Elon Musk's Starlink in the satellite internet space as both companies aim to provide global high-speed internet?via low-Earth orbit satellites edited by Abhyjith K. Ashokan on Hindustan Times
- Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces an ï¿¡8 billion investment from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to strengthen cloud infrastructure in the UK, aiming to boost economic growth and innovation across the countryon GOV.UK
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set to invest $1.8 billion in Brazil through 2034, aimed at expanding its cloud infrastructure and boosting the country's digital transformation?on Reuter
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
AWS Community Builder
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