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Support for Quorum Queues in Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ Classic and RabbitMQ, simplifying the setup, operation, and management of message brokers on AWS. Recently, AWS announced support for quorum queues, a replicated type designed for higher availability and data safety, for Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ.
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How the Adidas Platform Team Reduced the Cost of Running Kubernetes Clusters
The multi-pronged approach the adidas team took can be useful for platform engineering teams in many other organizations, as a recent CNCF report stated that Kubernetes has driven cloud spending up for 49% of respondents.
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AWS Announces a Generative Artificial Intelligence-Powered Service AWS App Studio in Preview
AWS App Studio, a new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered service designed to enable technical professionals without software development skills to create enterprise-grade applications using natural language, has been launched in preview by AWS in the US West (Oregon) AWS region.
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AWS Releases User Guide for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
Amazon recently released the AWS User Guide to the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The document details how AWS services support financial entities in complying with DORA's requirements for operational resilience, including ICT risk management, incident reporting, testing, and third-party risk management.
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Amazon EC2 R8g Instances with AWS Graviton4 Processors Generally Available
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 R8g instances, which use AWS Graviton4 processors. These instances have been available in preview since November 2023 and are designed for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics.
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AWS Discontinues Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
AWS recently announced that new customers can no longer sign up for Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a managed service providing an immutable transaction log maintained by a central trusted authority. All existing databases will be shut down in one year, and current users are encouraged to migrate to Aurora PostgreSQL.
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AWS Launches Open-Source Agent for AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new open-source agent for AWS Secrets Manager. According to the company, this agent simplifies the process of retrieving secrets from AWS Secrets Manager, enabling secure and streamlined application access.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to Streamline ML Workflows
AWS announced that Amazon SageMaker Studio now includes Amazon Q Developer as a new capability. This generative AI-powered assistant is built natively into SageMaker’s JupyterLab experience and provides recommendations for the best tools for each task, step-by-step guidance, code generation, and troubleshooting assistance.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Pools: Flexible and Tailored Virtual Desktop Environments
Amazon has announced a new feature for Amazon WorkSpaces called WorkSpaces Pools. This feature provides non-persistent virtual desktops across a group of users. Administrators can manage a portfolio of persistent and non-persistent desktops through a Graphic User Interface, command line, or API-powered tools.
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Amazon Q Apps Aim to Simplify the Creation of Generative AI Apps for the Enterprise
Part of its Amazon Q Business offering, Amazon Q Apps enable the creation of generative AI-powered apps integrating enterprise data that can be shared securely within an organization. Along with their general availability, Amazon announced new APIs for Amazon Q Apps and more granular data source definition.
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AWS Introduces Malware Detection for Object Uploads to Amazon S3
At the latest re:Inforce cloud security conference, AWS announced GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3. This new malware scanning feature for Amazon S3 enables teams to detect malware in new object uploads using Amazon GuardDuty.
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Amazon SageMaker Now Offers Managed MLflow Capability for Enhanced Experiment Tracking
AWS has announced the general availability of MLflow capability in Amazon SageMaker. MLflow is an open-source tool commonly used for managing ML experiments. Users can now compare model performance, parameters, and metrics across experiments in the MLflow UI, keep track of their best models in the MLflow Model Registry, and automatically register them as a SageMaker model.
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AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog
AWS has recently announced updates to the Well-Architected Framework and Lens Catalog. With a significant focus on security and observability, the new release has expanded guidance on architectural best practices to build and maintain optimized, secure, and resilient workloads in the cloud.
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Distill CLI: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Unveils Rust-Powered Media Summarization Tool
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, has recently launched Distill CLI, a personal project written in Rust. The open-source tool leverages Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Bedrock to generate summaries of audio recordings directly from the command line.
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AWS Adds Passkey Support for Enhanced Security, Enforces MFA for Root Users
AWS has recently announced two new security features. First, passkeys can now be used for multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users, providing additional security beyond just a username and password. Second, AWS now requires MFA for root users, starting with the root user account in an AWS Organization. This requirement will be expanded to other accounts throughout the year.