AWS Weekly News Roundup Issue #209

Good afternoon,

Happy Friday, and welcome to my weekly?AWS News Round-Up!? ?I'm back in action after a couple of weeks' leave riding my motorcycle around the trails of the Pyrenees - nice to be 'off grid' for a while!

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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 EC2 now allows customers to optimize CPUs after instance launch, enabling adjustments like reducing vCPUs or disabling hyperthreading on stopped instances, which helps save on licensing costs and improves flexibility?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS CodePipeline has introduced a new general-purpose compute action that allows users to run shell commands, AWS CLI, and third-party tools directly within pipeline executions, simplifying workflows and enhancing flexibility?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Security Hub has introduced seven new security controls, expanding its coverage to 430 controls, including enhanced monitoring for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points, Amazon MSK Connect, and Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring on?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Outposts is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region, enabling organizations to run AWS services locally on-premises while connecting back to their home region for management and compliance with data residency requirements?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces new features and enhancements, including faster indexing, improved search performance, and expanded analytical capabilities, enabling more efficient data processing and insights?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey, an open-source high-performance key-value store, offering serverless caching with lower costs and improved scalability, making it a powerful option for workloads like caching, leaderboards, and session stores?on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS Console-to-Code is now generally available, making it easy to turn AWS console actions into reusable code, simplifying automation with tools like CloudFormation or CDK?via Abhishek Gupta on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Technical How-To

• Build a generative AI-powered Slack assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Kendra to help users quickly find and retrieve relevant information by integrating natural language processing and search capabilities for an enhanced chat experience?via Kruthi Jayasimha Rao and Mohamed Mohamud on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Improve your security incident response times by decentralizing notifications using AWS Service Catalog, allowing workload owners to receive near real-time security alerts directly for faster remediation?via Cheng Wang, Karthikeyan KM, and Randy Patrick on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Business Updates?

• AWS CEO Matt Garman highlights that while the company doesn't need to make major shifts at the moment, advancements in AI, especially generative AI, will still bring notable changes as AWS continues to innovate and enhance its offerings for customers?via Michael Moore on TechRadar
• AWS offers small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) guidance on enhancing risk management and compliance by using AWS tools like Control Tower, Security Hub, and GuardDuty, helping them meet industry standards while improving security and operational efficiency?via Kunle Adeleke, John Sol, and Pichaimani Rajesh Kumar on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• AWS VP of AI, Matt Wood, is leaving the company after 15 years, having been instrumental in driving AWS's AI and machine learning advancements?via Todd Bishop on GeekWire?

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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Karl Robinson

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