3/4/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 3/5/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS re:Post introduces re:Post Live
Today, AWS re:Post launches AWS re:Post Live - a weekly Twitch livestream series that provides a new and engaging way for builders to interact with a community of experts to grow their knowledge, improve their skills, and discuss the latest in AWS technologies. Every Monday at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST, users can join the livestream to get answers to their questions, chat with experts and other stream attendees, and learn more about top-of-mind AWS topics.
AWS WAF enhances rate-based rules to support configurable time windows
AWS WAF now supports configurable evaluation time windows for request aggregation with rate-based rules. Customers can now select time windows of 1 minute, 2 minutes or 10 minutes, in addition to the previously supported 5 minutes.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP doubles maximum throughput capacity to 72 GBps
Starting today, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is increasing the maximum throughput capacity per file system by 2x (from 36 GB/s to 72 GB/s), letting you leverage ONTAP’s data management features for an even broader set of performance-intensive workloads.
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet model now available on Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. The Claude 3 family of models (Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku) is the next generation of state-of-the-art models from Anthropic. For the vast majority of workloads, Sonnet is faster on inputs and outputs than Anthropic’s Claude 2 and 2.1 models, with higher levels of intelligence. Sonnet is also more steerable, delivering more predictable and higher quality outcomes. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, like Anthropic, along with a broad set of capabilities that provide you with the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.
Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.11.28
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.11.28, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. If you are running earlier versions of RabbitMQ, such as 3.10, 3.9 or 3.8, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to RabbitMQ 3.11.28 or higher. This can be accomplished with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. We also encourage you to enable automatic minor version upgrades on RabbitMQ 3.11.28 to help ensure your brokers take advantage of future fixes and improvements.
AWS Batch on Amazon EKS supports the use of private Amazon EKS clusters to run Batch jobs
Starting today, you can use private cluster endpoints with AWS Batch on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). You can bring existing private Amazon EKS clusters and create a compute environment on AWS Batch. This setup enables Amazon EKS jobs to run private endpoints using AWS Batch.
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports WebAuthn for in-session authentication
WorkSpaces now supports the WebAuthn (Web Authentication) standard for in-session authentication. Users can authenticate into WebAuthn-supported web applications through WebAuthn redirection when using Chrome or Edge on their Windows WSP WorkSpaces. This feature is accessible from WorkSpaces Windows, macOS, and Linux client applications and is compatible with YubiKey, Windows Hello, and other FIDO2-compliant authenticators. Your organization can leverage the latest standard to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive company data on WorkSpaces.
Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Middle East (UAE).
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Best practices for writing Step Functions projects in Terraform
- Analyze bank data with the Amazon QuickSight dashboard
- AWS Weekly — 2024/2/26
- Build a cloud gateway to ingest RTSP video into Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
AWS News Blog
- AWS Weekly Roundup — New models for Amazon Bedrock, CloudFront embedded POPs, and more — March 4, 2024
- Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundation model is now available in Amazon Bedrock
AWS Cloud Financial Management
- Managing Costs with Cloud Financial Management Technical Implementation Playbooks (CFM TIPs) for AWS
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Compute Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Optimize TempDB performance in Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using local instance storage
- How the Amazon Timehub team built a data replication framework using AWS DMS: Part 1
Desktop and Application Streaming
AWS DevOps Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Alida gains deeper understanding of customer feedback with Amazon Bedrock
- Unlocking Innovation: AWS and Anthropic push the boundaries of generative AI together