This version of Week in Review marks the top of the month of May. In addition, we simply completed all the in-person AWS Summits in Asia-Pacific and Japan ranging from AWS Summit Sydney and AWS Summit Tokyo in April to AWS Summit ASEAN, AWS Summit Seoul, and AWS Summit Mumbai in May.
Thank you to everybody who attended our AWS Summits in APJ, particularly the AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and AWS User Group leaders, to your collaboration in supporting actions at AWS Summit occasions.
Last Week’s Launches
Here are some launches that caught my consideration final week:
AWS Wickr is now HIPAA eligible — AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted enterprise messaging and collaboration software that allows one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, display screen sharing, and placement sharing, with out rising organizational threat. With this announcement, now you can use AWS Wickr for workloads which can be inside the scope of HIPAA. Visit AWS Wickr to get began.
Amazon Redshift proclaims help for auto-commit statements in saved process — If you’re utilizing saved procedures in Amazon Redshift, you now have enhanced transaction controls that allow you to mechanically commit the statements contained in the process. This new NONATOMIC mode can be utilized to deal with exceptions inside a saved process. You can even use the brand new PL/pgSQL assertion RAISE to programmatically increase the exception, which helps forestall disruptions in functions because of an error inside a saved process. For extra info on utilizing this function, check with Managing transactions.
AWS Chatbot helps entry to Amazon CloudWatch dashboards and logs insights in chat channels — With this launch, you now can obtain Amazon CloudWatch alarm notifications for an incident instantly in your chat channel, analyze the diagnostic knowledge from the dashboards, and remediate instantly from the chat channel with out switching context. Visit the AWS Chatbot web page to be taught extra.
For a full record of AWS bulletins, you should definitely regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.
AWS Open Source Updates
As all the time, my colleague Ricardo has curated the newest updates for open supply information at AWS. Here are a number of the highlights:
OpenEMR on AWS Fargate — OpenEMR is a well-liked Electronic Health and Medical Practice administration resolution. If you’re seeking to deploy OpenEMR on AWS, then this repo will assist you to to get your OpenEMR up and operating on AWS Fargate utilizing Amazon ECS.
Cloud-Radar — If you’re working with AWS Cloudformation and searching for performing unit assessments, you then would possibly need to attempt Cloud-Radar. You can even carry out useful testing with Cloud-Radar as this software additionally acts a wrapper round Taskcat.
Amazon and Generative AI
Using generative AI to enhance excessive multilabel classification — In their analysis on excessive multilabel classification (XMC), Amazon scientists explored a generative strategy, through which a mannequin generates a sequence of labels for enter sequences of phrases. The generative fashions with clustering persistently outperformed them. This demonstrates the effectiveness of incorporating hierarchical clustering in enhancing XMC efficiency.
Upcoming AWS Events
Don’t miss upcoming AWS-led occasions occurring quickly:
Also, let’s be taught from our fellow builders and provides them help by attending AWS Community Days:
That’s all for this week. Check again subsequent Monday for an additional Week in Review!
Happy constructing
— Donnie