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AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Mac Builds
Amazon has recently announced that AWS CodeBuild, its managed build service, now supports building applications on macOS. However, due to Apple's licensing requirements, developers must still reserve a dedicated macOS fleet to utilize this new option.
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How AWS Well-Architected Framework Supports Frugal Architecture
AWS shared how to deliver frugal architecture using Well-Architectured Framework guidance. The authors outline areas of alignment between the WAF and the Frugal Architect laws Dr. Werner Vogels introduced in his re:Invent 2023 keynote. By implementing the frugal approach, organizations can achieve sustainability and cost optimization goals for their cloud architectures.
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Elastic Returns to Open Source: Will the Community Follow?
In a surprising move for both the open-source and Elastic communities, Shay Banon, founder and CEO of Elastic, recently announced that Elasticsearch and Kibana will once again be open source. The two products will soon be licensed under the AGPL, an OSI-approved license.
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How Amazon Aurora Serverless Manages Resources and Scaling for Fleets of 10K+ Instances
AWS engineers published a paper describing the evolution and latest design of resource management and scaling for the Amazon Aurora Serverless platform. Aurora Serverless uses a combination of components at different levels to create a holistic approach for dynamically scaling and adjusting resources to satisfy the needs of customer workloads.
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LLM-Powered DevOps Assistant Clio Launches to Help Engineers Manage Cloud Infrastructure
Acorn, a company founded to help organisations implement AI-based technology solutions, has recently introduced Clio, an AI-powered command-line assistant designed to help engineers manage DevOps workflows. In a blog post and a YouTube live stream, Acorn describes Clio as a "slightly grumpy but friendly assistant" which can handle various DevOps-related tasks through natural language.
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AWS Introduces Logically Air-Gapped Vault for Enhanced Data Security
AWS recently announced the public preview of AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault, a new type of vault that can be shared for recovery with other accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM).
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AWS Graviton-Based EC2 Instance Hibernation: Cost Efficiency and Faster Operations
AWS recently announced that customers can hibernate their EC2 instances (M3, M4, M5, C3, C4, C5, R3, R4, and R5) powered by AWS Graviton processors. According to the company EC2 instance, hibernation helps customers achieve significant cost savings and faster startup times by enabling them to pause and resume their running instances at scale.
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Amazon MemoryDB Provides Fastest Vector Search on AWS
AWS recently announced the general availability of vector search for Amazon MemoryDB, the managed in-memory database with Multi-AZ availability. The new capability provides ultra-low latency and the fastest vector search performance at the highest recall rates among vector databases on AWS.
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Canva Opts for Amazon KDS over SNS+SQS to Save 85% with 25 Billion Events per Day
Canva evaluated different data massaging solutions for its Product Analytics Platform, including the combination of AWS SNS and SQS, MKS, and Amazon KDS, and eventually chose the latter, primarily based on its much lower costs. The company compared many aspects of these solutions, like performance, maintenance effort, and cost.
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AWS Discontinues Various Services, Raising Concerns in the Community
For the first time in its history, AWS has discontinued several managed services within a matter of days. Among the affected services are the source control AWS CodeCommit, the cloud-based IDE AWS Cloud9, and the time-series forecasting service Amazon Forecast. The wave of deprecations has led to concerns within the community due to the lack of clear communication.
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Meta Releases Llama 3.1 405B, Largest Open-Source Model to Date
Meta recently unveiled its latest language model, Llama 3.1 405B. This AI model is the largest of the new Llama models, which also include 8B and 70B versions. With 405 billion parameters, 15 trillion tokens, and 16,000 GPUs, Llama 3.1 405B offers a range of impressive features.
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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.