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AWS Announces Amazon Q, a New Generative AI–Powered Assistant
AWS has introduced Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant designed for professional applications. This assistant is configurable to align with your company's requirements, facilitating conversations, issue resolution, content generation, and action-taking through the utilization of information present in your code, enterprise systems, and data repositories.
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Amazon EC2 Enhances Defense in Depth with Default IMDSv2
To improve defense against open firewalls, reverse proxies, and SSRF vulnerabilities, AWS has recently announced that new Amazon EC2 instance types will support only version 2 of the EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDSv2). For transition support, customers will still be able to enable IMDSv1.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Linux 2023 Runtime for Lambda
AWS recently introduced Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) as a managed runtime and container base image for its Lambda service. The runtime provides an OS-only environment for developers to run Lambda functions.
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New Amazon SQS Bindings Added to CoreWCF
Amazon delivered a new binding for CoreWCF, the open-source replacement for Windows Communication Foundation. The new binding supports the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) in both server and client code. The new binding allows simple migration of legacy Microsoft MSMQ binding to an AWS cloud-based implementation.
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AWS Announces European Sovereign Cloud for Government Agencies and Regulated Industries
AWS has recently announced that it is working on a European Sovereign Cloud, a new European region that will be operationally independent of all existing AWS regions. No availability date has been provided for the new option that targets government agencies and regulated industries that store sensitive data and run critical workloads in the European Union (EU).
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AWS Unveils Gemini, a Distributed Training System for Swift Failure Recovery in Large Model Training
AWS and Rice University have introduced Gemini, a new distributed training system to redefine failure recovery in large-scale deep learning models. According to the research paper, Gemini adopts a daring strategy by utilizing CPU memory to ensure previously unheard-of speeds in failure recovery, overcoming obstacles related to high recovery costs and constrained checkpoint storage capacity.
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AWS Restructures and Consolidates Its Well-Architected Framework
AWS published a new set of updates to its Well-Architected Framework, with changes across all six pillars of the framework. The performance efficiency and operational excellence pillars have been restructured and consolidated to reduce the number of best practices. Other pillars received improved implementation guidance, including recommendations and steps on reusable architecture patterns.
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Cloudflare, Google and AWS Disclose HTTP/2 Zero-Day Vulnerability
On October 10th, Cloudflare, Google, and AWS disclosed a novel zero-day vulnerability attack known as the "HTTP/2 Rapid Reset." This attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, up to almost 400 million requests per second (rps).
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CloudWatch Introduces Best Practice Alarm Recommendations for 19 AWS Services
AWS has recently introduced "out-of-the-box" best practice alarm recommendations for Amazon CloudWatch. This new option is designed to improve observability on the AWS platform, allowing users to easily add alarms from the console and download templates for CloudFormation, Terraform, and the CLI.
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AWS Adds New Code Generation Models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of two new foundation models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: Code Llama and Mistral 7B. These models can be deployed with one click to provide AWS users with private inference endpoints for code generation tasks.
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Goldsky’s Streaming-First Architecture for Blockchain Data with Flink, Redpanda and Kubernetes
Goldsky created a platform for the real-time processing of blockchain data. The platform allows clients to extract data from blockchains into their own databases to support product features, but without running the data pipeline infrastructure. The event-driven architecture (EDA) of Goldsky leverages Apache Flink, Redpanda, Kubernetes, and cloud provider services.
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Amazon MSK Replicator: Active-Passive and Active-Active Clusters for Apache Kafka Service
AWS has recently announced MSK Replicator, a new option for cross-region and same-region streaming data replication. The new feature of the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka service provides automatic asynchronous replication across clusters, enhancing availability and ensuring business continuity.
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Now Supports pgactive for Active-Active Replication
AWS recently announced the general availability of pgactive on RDS for PostgreSQL. The replication extension for PostgreSQL supports asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances, enhancing resiliency and flexibility.
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AWS Announces the Preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability
Amazon Web Services has announced the preview of Amazon CodeWhisperer Customization Capability. This new functionality empowers users to fine-tune CodeWhisperer, enabling it to provide more precise suggestions by incorporating an organization's proprietary APIs, internal libraries, classes, methods, and industry best practices.
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Reddit Unveils REV2: Modernised Rule-Execution with Kubernetes, Kafka, and Flink Stateful Functions
Reddit's Safety Engineering team recently published how it modernised its Rule-Execution system, which detects and acts on policy-violating content in real time. The new architecture includes improvements like transitioning from legacy EC2-based systems to Kubernetes, better rule version control with Github and S3 storage, and the capability to scale more efficiently with Flink Stateful Functions.