Whereas I loved a number of days off in California to get a dose of vitamin sea, quite a bit has occurred within the AWS universe. Let’s have a look collectively!
Final Week’s Launches
Listed here are some launches that received my consideration:
Amazon MWAA now helps Apache Airflow model 2.6 – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you should utilize to arrange and function end-to-end knowledge pipelines within the cloud. Apache Airflow model 2.6 introduces necessary safety updates and bug fixes that improve the safety and reliability of your workflows. If you happen to’re at the moment working Apache Airflow model 2.x, now you can seamlessly improve to model 2.6.3. Take a look at this AWS Massive Information Weblog publish to be taught extra.
Amazon EMR Studio provides assist for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained entry management – Amazon EMR Studio is a web-based built-in improvement surroundings (IDE) for totally managed Jupyter notebooks that run on Amazon EMR clusters. Once you connect with EMR clusters from EMR Studio workspaces, now you can select the AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) position that you simply need to join with. Apache Spark interactive notebooks will entry solely the info and assets permitted by insurance policies connected to this runtime IAM position. When knowledge is accessed from knowledge lakes managed with AWS Lake Formation, you’ll be able to implement desk and column-level entry utilizing insurance policies connected to this runtime position. For extra particulars, take a look on the Amazon EMR documentation.
AWS Safety Hub launches 12 new safety controls – AWS Safety Hub is a cloud safety posture administration (CSPM) service that performs safety finest observe checks, aggregates alerts, and permits automated remediation. With the newly launched controls, Safety Hub now helps three further AWS providers: Amazon Athena, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and Amazon Neptune. Safety Hub has additionally added an extra management in opposition to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS Safety Hub now affords 276 controls. Yow will discover extra data within the AWS Safety Hub documentation.
Extra AWS providers obtainable within the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Area – The AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Area opened on August 1, 2023. This previous week, AWS Service Catalog, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EFS, and Amazon Kinesis Information Analytics had been added to the listing of obtainable providers within the Israel (Tel Aviv) Area. Test the AWS Regional Companies Record for probably the most up-to-date availability data.
Different AWS Information
Listed here are some further weblog posts and information gadgets that you simply would possibly discover attention-grabbing:
AWS acknowledged as a Chief in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Heart as a Service with Amazon Join – AWS was named a Chief for the primary time since Amazon Join, our versatile, AI-powered cloud contact middle, was launched in 2017. Learn the complete story right here.
Generate inventive promoting utilizing generative AI – This AWS Machine Studying Weblog publish exhibits methods to generate fascinating and revolutionary ads at scale utilizing generative AI. It discusses the strategy of inpainting and methods to seamlessly create picture backgrounds, visually beautiful and interesting content material, and decreasing undesirable picture artifacts.
AWS open-source information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open-source e-newsletter by which he highlights new open-source initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Group.
Upcoming AWS Occasions
Test your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
Construct On Generative AI – Your favourite weekly Twitch present about all issues generative AI is again for season 2 right now! Each Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Emily and Darko take a look at new technical and scientific patterns on AWS, inviting visitor audio system to demo their work and present us how they constructed one thing new to enhance the state of generative AI.
In right now’s episode, Emily and Darko mentioned the most recent fashions LlaMa-2 and Falcon, and explored them in retrieval-augmented era design patterns. You’ll be able to watch the video right here. Take a look at present notes and the complete listing of episodes on group.aws.
AWS NLP Convention 2023 – Be a part of this in-person occasion on September 13–14 in London to listen to in regards to the newest traits, ground-breaking analysis, and revolutionary functions that leverage pure language processing (NLP) capabilities on AWS. This yr, the convention will primarily give attention to massive language fashions (LLMs), as they type the spine of many generative AI functions and use circumstances. Register right here.
AWS International Summits – The 2023 AWS Summits season is nearly coming to an finish with the final two in-person occasions in Mexico Metropolis (August 30) and Johannesburg (September 26).
AWS Group Days – Be a part of a community-led convention run by AWS consumer group leaders in your area: West Africa (August 19), Taiwan (August 26), Aotearoa (September 6), Lebanon (September 9), and Munich (September 14).
AWS re:Invent (November 27 – December 1) – Be a part of us to listen to the most recent from AWS, be taught from consultants, and join with the worldwide cloud group. Registration is now open.
You’ll be able to browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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