4/18/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/19/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Partner Central launches enhanced user management capabilities
AWS Partner Central has enhanced the user management experience in AWS Partner Central with a modernized look and feel and more customized capabilities. Now, alliance leads and alliance team users can assign specific user roles with distinctive permission sets and seamlessly invite new users to register via email, specifying a role assignment upon registration. These updates simplify and provide efficient user management through bulk actions and personalized role assignments.
Meta Llama 3 foundation models now available on AWS
Starting today, the next generation of the Meta Llama models, Llama 3, is now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker Studio or programmatically through the SageMaker Python SDK.
New self-service tasks for Services Partners in AWS Partner Central
AWS Partners with services solutions will now have additional guidance available through the tasks feature in AWS Partner Central to help expediate their self-service journey with AWS. With this release, partners in the early stages of their engagement with the AWS Partner Network (APN) will be provided with a series of personalized tasks guiding them toward achieving AWS Select Tier status. Achieving this tier unlocks additional benefits, including access to funding and programs.
Amazon SQS announces support for FIFO dead-letter queue redrive in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces support for dead-letter queue redrive for FIFO queues in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Dead-letter queue redrive is an enhanced capability to improve the dead-letter queue management experience for Amazon SQS customers. Amazon SQS already supports redriving messages from a standard dead-letter queue to a standard source queues or a standard custom destination queue. Now SQS customers can also redrive messages from a FIFO dead-letter queue to FIFO source queues or FIFO custom destination queues.
AWS Neuron introduces speculative decoding and vLLM support
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1, adding continuous batching with vLLM support, and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library.
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports client authentication hook for Trusted Language Extensions
Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports client authentication hook that lets you run additional checks over the existing authentication process, allowing you to enhance the security posture of your databases. A hook is an internal callback mechanism available to developers for extending PostgreSQL’s core functionality. By using hooks, developers can implement their own functions or procedures for use during various database operations.
AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer
AWS IAM Identity Center administrators now have an option to extend the session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer separately from the session durations of other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal. Users of Amazon CodeWhisperer can work in the integrated development environment (IDE) for 90 days without being asked to re-authenticate by CodeWhisperer.
Amazon WorkSpaces helps simplify Bring Your Own License (BYOL) account management
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs to link your AWS accounts, within the same region, so that these accounts can use the same underlying dedicated infrastructure. AWS enables you to run your Bring Your Own License (BYOL) WorkSpaces on infrastructure that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud, and these new APIs make it easier for the you to use your dedicated infrastructure efficiently.
Announcing Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, Parquet, and SBOM
Today, we are announcing the availability of the Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, the Parquet input file format for Nodestream, and the Nodestream Security Bill Of Material (SBOM) plug-in for CycloneDX and SPDX file formats.
AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads.
AWS Partner CRM Connector now supports future dated agreements
Starting today, Partners can leverage the AWS Partner CRM Connector for Salesforce to create offers for future dated agreements and agreement based offers, providing greater flexibility and control over offer management and integration within AWS Marketplace. Future dated agreements allows you to schedule service start dates to begin in the future. Partners can also access their agreements and create agreement-based offers for SaaS Contract products, with or without consumption, across multiple seller accounts, enabling buyers to replace existing agreements when they accept the offer.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Discover, visualize, and monitor live video workflows on AWS
- Cost-effective document classification using the Amazon Titan multimodal embedding model
- Build a developer portal with Backstage and Amazon EKS Blueprints
- Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus models now available on Amazon Bedrock
- Scale Amazon ECS using a variety of AWS native services!
- AWS Weekly Roundup: New Features in Amazon Bedrock Knowledgebase, OAC for Lambda Function URL Origins on Amazon CloudFront, and More (April 15, 2024)
AWS Big Data Blog
AWS Database Blog
- Handle tables without primary keys while creating Amazon Aurora MySQL or Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift
- Handle tables without primary keys while creating Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integrations with Amazon Redshift