April has been filled with new releases! Final week continued that development with many new releases supporting a wide range of domains equivalent to safety, analytics, devops, and lots of extra, in addition to extra thrilling new capabilities inside generative AI.
In the event you missed the AWS Summit London 2024, now you can watch the classes on demand, together with the keynote by Tanuja Randery, VP & Advertising Director, EMEA, and lots of the break-out classes which is able to proceed to be launched over the approaching weeks.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are a few of the highlights that caught my consideration this week:
Handbook and computerized rollback from any stage in AWS CodePipeline – Now you can rollback any stage, apart from Supply, to any beforehand identified good state in if you happen to use a V2 pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. You possibly can configure computerized rollback which is able to use the supply modifications from the newest profitable pipeline execution within the case of failure, or you possibly can provoke a guide rollback for any stage from the console, API or SDK and select which pipeline execution you wish to use for the rollback.
AWS CodeArtifact now helps RubyGems – Ruby neighborhood, rejoice, now you can retailer your gems in AWS CodeArtifact! You possibly can combine it with RubyGems.org, and CodeArtifact will mechanically fetch any gems requested by the shopper and retailer them domestically in your CodeArtifact repository. Meaning that you could have a centralized place for each your first-party and public gems so builders can entry their dependencies from a single supply.
Amazon EventBridge Pipes now helps occasion supply by way of AWS PrivateLink – Now you can ship occasions to an Amazon EventBridge Pipes goal with out traversing the general public web by utilizing AWS PrivateLink. You possibly can ballot for occasions in a non-public subnet in your Amazon Digital Non-public Cloud (VPC) with out having to deploy any further infrastructure to maintain your visitors personal.
Amazon Bedrock launches proceed. Now you can run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+. And Amazon Titan Textual content V2 is now optimized for bettering Retrieval-Augmented Technology (RAG).
AWS Trusted Advisor – final 12 months we launched Trusted Advisor APIs enabling you to programmatically eat suggestions. A brand new API is offered now that you need to use to exclude sources from suggestions.
Amazon EC2 – there have been two new nice launches this week for EC2 customers. Now you can mark your AMIs as “protected” to keep away from them being deregistered accidentally. You can too now simply uncover your energetic AMIs by merely describing them.
Amazon CodeCatalyst – now you can view your git commit historical past within the CodeCatalyst console.
Common Availability
Many new providers and capabilities turned typically accessible this week.
Amazon Q in QuickSight – Amazon Q has introduced generative BI to Amazon QuickSight supplying you with the flexibility to construct stunning dashboards mechanically just by utilizing pure language and it’s now typically accessible. To get began, head to the Quicksight Pricing web page to discover all choices or begin a 30-day free trial which permits as much as 4 customers per QuickSight account to make use of all the brand new generative AI options.
Amazon Q Enterprise (GA) and Amazon Q Apps (Preview) – Additionally typically accessible now could be Amazon Q Enterprise which we launched final 12 months at AWS re:Invent 2023 with the flexibility to attach seamlessly with over 40 standard enterprise programs, together with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), Gmail, and so many extra. This permits Amazon Q Enterprise to learn about your corporation so your staff can generate content material, remedy issues, and take actions which are particular to your corporation.
We’ve got additionally launched help for customized plug-ins, so now you possibly can create your individual integrations with any third-party software.
One other spotlight of this launch is the launch of Amazon Q Apps, which allows you to rapidly generate an app out of your dialog with Amazon Q Enterprise, or by describing what you prefer to it to generate for you. All guardrails from Amazon Q Enterprise apply, and it’s straightforward to share your apps with colleagues by way of an admin-managed library. Amazon Q Apps is in preview now.
Try Channy Yun’s put up for a deeper dive into Amazon Q Enterprise and Amazon Q Apps, which guides you thru these new options.
Amazon Q Developer – you possibly can use Q Developer to utterly change your developer circulate. It has all of the capabilities of what was beforehand often known as Amazon CodeWhisperer, equivalent to Q&A, diagnosing widespread errors, producing code together with assessments, and lots of extra. Now it has expanded, so you need to use it to generate SQL, and construct knowledge integration pipelines utilizing pure language. In preview, it could actually describe sources in your AWS account and make it easier to retrieve and analyze value knowledge from AWS Value Explorer.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, make sure to regulate the ‘What’s New with AWS?‘ web page.
Different AWS information
Listed below are some further initiatives, weblog posts, and information gadgets that you just would possibly discover fascinating:
AWS open supply information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes about open supply initiatives, instruments, and occasions from the AWS Group.
Uncover Claude 3 – In the event you’re a developer searching for a great supply to get began with Claude 3 them I like to recommend this nice put up from my colleague Haowen Huang: Mastering Amazon Bedrock with Claude 3: Developer’s Information with Demos.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join upcoming AWS occasions:
AWS Summits – Be a part of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Singapore (Could 7), Seoul (Could 16–17), Hong Kong (Could 22), Milan (Could 23), Stockholm (June 4), and Madrid (June 5).
AWS re:Inforce – Discover 2.5 days of immersive cloud safety studying within the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania.
AWS Group Days – Be a part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and trade leaders from all over the world: Turkey (Could 18), Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28).
GOTO EDA Day London – Be a part of us in London on Could 14 to study event-driven architectures (EDA) for constructing extremely scalable, fault tolerant, and extensible purposes. This convention is organized by GOTO, AWS, and companions.
Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions and developer-focused occasions.
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