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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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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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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 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 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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Amazon Brings AI Assistant to Software Development as Part of Amazon Q Suite
Amazon has recently released Amazon Q Developer Agent, an AI-powered assistant that uses natural language input from developers to generate features, bug fixes, and unit tests within an integrated development environment (IDE). It employs large language models and generative AI to understand a developer's natural language request, and then generate the necessary code changes.
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Slack Optimizes Internal Development and Cost Efficiency with EKS and Karpenter
Slack has recently disclosed the architecture of its internal compute orchestration platform, epitomized by "Bedrock”, based on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Karpenter.
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Building SaaS from Scratch Using Cloud-Native Patterns: a Deep Dive into a Cloud Startup
Joni Collinge, Diagrid's founding software engineer, presented at QCon London and discussed a case study on the evolutionary design and implementation of the Diagrid Cloud platform, which underpins Diagrid’s SaaS offerings.
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AWS Deadline Cloud: Q&A on the Cloud-Based Render Farm with Antony Passemard
AWS has recently introduced Deadline Cloud, a new service designed to help creative teams manage rendering tasks more efficiently. The service is particularly useful for customers in the media & entertainment (M&E) and architecture, engineering, & construction (AEC) industries who need to generate final frames for film, TV, games, industrial design visualizations, and other digital media.
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AWS Introduces an Experimental Low Latency Runtime for Faster, More Efficient Serverless Apps
AWS recently open-sourced its JavaScript runtime, called LLRT (Low Latency Runtime), an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
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AWS Launches CDK Migrate and CloudFormation IaC Generator for Infrastructure as Code Adoption
AWS announced the general availability (GA) of CDK Migrate, a component of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK – an open source project), which enables developers to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates, previously deployed CloudFormation stacks or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into a CDK application.
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Well-Architected Migration Lens for Streamlined Cloud Transition
AWS has introduced the AWS Well-Architected Migration Lens, an extension of the Well-Architected Framework. This extension incorporates best practices and implementation guidance that customers can utilize in their migration program across the three phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate.
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Real-Time Data Streaming Capabilities with AppSync Integration in Amazon EventBridge Event Bus
AWS recently announced that Amazon EventBridge Event Bus supports AWS AppSync as an Event Bus's target, enabling developers to stream real-time updates such as sports scores from their applications to frontend applications, including mobile and desktop.
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Amazon ECS Integration with Amazon EBS for Data Processing Workloads and Flexible Storage
AWS recently announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), which makes it easier for users to run a broader range of data processing workloads.