4/29/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/30/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager allows customers to define policies for centrally creating, deploying and managing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Network Access Control List (NACL) rules for their VPC subnets across accounts in their AWS Organization. Additionally, NACL policies provide customers with visibility into policy adherence by reporting the compliance status for each policy.
Cohere Command R and Command R+ now available in Amazon Bedrock
You can now access Cohere’s newest state-of-the-art enterprise foundation model family, Command R+ and Command R, in Amazon Bedrock. These generative AI models are highly scalable, optimized for long context tasks like advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with citations to mitigate hallucinations, multi-step tool use to automate complex business tasks, and are multilingual in 10 languages to support global business operations.
Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. These releases also offer improved performance through faster COPY operations (for PostgreSQL 16.2), Query Plan Management enhancements for queries with aggregate operations, and optimizations for further reducing the logical replication lag.
Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii. You can now use Local Zones in Honolulu to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. In this new Local Zone, you can access Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Application Load Balancer, and AWS Direct Connect to support a broad set of workloads at the edge.
Amazon Q generative SQL (preview) is now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region
Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor is available for public preview in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. Amazon Q generative SQL is available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor, an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Redshift, to simplify query authoring and increase your productivity by allowing you to express queries in natural language and receive SQL code recommendations. Furthermore, it allows you to get insights faster without extensive knowledge of your organization’s complex database metadata.
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. Lambda Insights provides you access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance changes caused by new function versions.
AWS Blogs
AWS News Blog
- Run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+, now available in Amazon Bedrock
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon CodeCatalyst, and more (April 29, 2024)
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Migrate VMware virtual machines (VMs) to Amazon EC2 with the AWS Application Migration Service Replication Agent
- Unlocking Mainframe Modernization for Success: Best practices to accelerate the mainframe to cloud journey
AWS Big Data Blog
Containers
AWS Database Blog
- Blockchain node deployment on AWS: A comprehensive guide
- Monitor Amazon RDS for Oracle instances using Oracle Enterprise Manager
AWS DevOps Blog
AWS for Industries
- Democratize Omics Data Analysis with Basepair on AWS HealthOmics
- Intelligent rig operations classification with HITL on AWS
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Develop and train large models cost-efficiently with Metaflow and AWS Trainium
- Cohere Command R and R+ are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- Revolutionizing large language model training with Arcee and AWS Trainium
Open Source Project
AWS CLI
Amplify for JavaScript
- tsc-compliance-test@0.1.32
- required-release: chore(release): Publish [skip release]
- 2024-04-29 Amplify JS release - aws-amplify@6.2.0
- @aws-amplify/storage@6.4.0
- @aws-amplify/pubsub@6.1.3
- @aws-amplify/predictions@6.1.4
- @aws-amplify/notifications@2.0.29
- @aws-amplify/interactions@6.0.29
- @aws-amplify/geo@3.0.29
- @aws-amplify/datastore-storage-adapter@2.1.31