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Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you a yr crammed with pleasure, success, and limitless alternatives! May the Year of the Dragon carry uninterrupted connections and limitless development 🐉 ☁️
In case you missed it, right here’s excellent information that you must know as you propose your yr in early 2024.
AWS was named as a Leader within the 2023 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services. AWS is the longest-running Magic Quadrant Leader, with Gartner naming AWS a Leader for the thirteenth consecutive yr. See Sebastian’s weblog publish to be taught extra. AWS has been named a Leader for the ninth consecutive yr within the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, and now we have been positioned highest for capability to execute by offering a complete set of providers to your knowledge basis throughout all workloads, use instances, and knowledge sorts. See Rahul Pathak’s weblog publish to be taught extra.
AWS additionally has been named a Leader in knowledge clear room know-how in line with the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Clean Room Technology 2024 Vendor Assessment (January 2024). This report evaluated knowledge clear room know-how distributors to be used instances throughout industries. See the AWS for Industries Blog channel publish to be taught extra.
Last Week’s Launches
Here are some launches that received my consideration:
A brand new Local Zone in Houston, Texas – Local Zones are an AWS infrastructure deployment that locations compute, storage, database, and different choose providers nearer to massive inhabitants, trade, and IT facilities the place no AWS Region exists. AWS Local Zones can be found within the US in 15 different metro areas and globally in an extra 17 metros areas, permitting you to ship low-latency functions to finish customers worldwide. You can allow the brand new Local Zone in Houston (us-east-1-iah-2a) from the Zones tab within the Amazon EC2 console settings.
AWS CloudFormation IaC generator – You can generate a template utilizing AWS assets provisioned in your account that aren’t already managed by CloudFormation. With this launch, you’ll be able to onboard workloads to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in minutes, eliminating weeks of guide effort. You can then leverage the IaC advantages of automation, security, and scalability for the workloads. Use the template to import assets into CloudFormation or replicate assets in a brand new account or Region. See the person information and weblog publish to be taught extra.
A brand new look-and-feel of Amazon Bedrock console – Amazon Bedrock now gives an enhanced console expertise with up to date UI improves usability, responsiveness, and accessibility with extra seamless help for darkish mode. To get began with the brand new expertise, go to the Amazon Bedrock console.
One-click WAF integration on ALB – Application Load Balancer (ALB) now helps console integration with AWS WAF that permits you to safe your functions behind ALB with a single click on. This integration allows AWS WAF protections as a primary line of protection in opposition to widespread net threats to your functions that use ALB. You can use this one-click safety safety offered by AWS WAF from the built-in providers part of the ALB console for each new and present load balancers.
Up to 49% worth discount for AWS Fargate Windows containers on Amazon ECS – Windows containers working on Fargate at the moment are billed per second for infrastructure and Windows Server licenses that their containerized software requests. Along with the infrastructure pricing for on-demand, we’re additionally decreasing the minimal billing period for Windows containers to five minutes (from quarter-hour) for any Fargate Windows duties beginning February 1st, 2024 (12:00am UTC). The infrastructure pricing and minimal billing interval adjustments will routinely mirror in your month-to-month AWS invoice. For extra data on the precise worth reductions, see the Fargate pricing web page.
Introducing Amazon Data Firehose – We are renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to Amazon Data Firehose. Amazon Data Firehose is the simplest technique to seize, rework, and ship knowledge streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Splunk, Snowflake, and different third get together analytics providers. The identify change is efficient within the AWS Management Console, documentations, and product pages.
AWS Transfer Family integrations with Amazon EventBridge – AWS Transfer Family now allows conditional workflows by publishing SFTP, FTPS, and FTP file switch occasions in close to real-time, SFTP connectors file switch occasion notifications, and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) switch operations to Amazon EventBridge. You can orchestrate your file switch and file-processing workflows in AWS utilizing Amazon EventBridge, or any workflow orchestration service of your alternative that integrates with these occasions.
For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure to keep watch over the What’s New at AWS web page.
Other AWS News
Some different updates and information that you just may need missed:
NFL’s digital athlete within the Super Bowl – AWS is working with the National Football League (NFL) to take participant well being and security to the following stage. Using AI and machine studying, they’re making a exact image of every participant in coaching, apply, and video games. You may see this know-how in motion, particularly with the Super Bowl on the final Sunday!
Amazon’s commiting the accountable AI – On February 7, Amazon joined the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium, established by the National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST), to additional our authorities and trade collaboration to advance protected and safe synthetic intelligence (AI). Amazon will contribute compute credit to assist develop instruments to guage AI security and assist the institute set an interoperable and trusted basis for accountable AI improvement and use.
Compliance updates in South Korea – AWS has accomplished the 2023 South Korea Cloud Service Providers (CSP) Safety Assessment Program, also referred to as the Regulation on Supervision on Electronic Financial Transactions (RSEFT) Audit Program. AWS is dedicated to serving to our prospects adhere to relevant laws and tips, and we assist be certain that our monetary prospects have a hassle-free expertise utilizing the cloud. Also, AWS has efficiently renewed certification beneath the Korea Information Security Management System (Okay-ISMS) commonplace (efficient from December 16, 2023, to December 15, 2026).
Join AWS Cloud Clubs Captains – AWS Cloud Clubs are student-led person teams for post-secondary stage college students and unbiased learners. Interested in founding or co-founding a Cloud Club in your college or area? We are accepting functions from February 5-18, 2024.
Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendars and join upcoming AWS occasions:
AWS Innovate AI/ML and Data Edition – Join our free on-line convention to learn the way you and your group can leverage the most recent advances in generative AI. You can register upcoming AWS Innovate Online occasion that matches your timezone in Asia Pacific & Japan (February 22), EMEA (February 29), and Americas (March 14).
AWS Public Sector occasions – Join us on the AWS Public Sector Symposium Brussels (March 12) to find how the AWS Cloud will help you enhance resiliency, develop sustainable options, and obtain your mission. AWS Public Sector Day London (March 19) gathers professionals from authorities, healthcare, and training sectors to sort out urgent challenges in United Kingdom public providers.
Kicking off AWS Global Summits – AWS Summits are a sequence of free on-line and in-person occasions that carry the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. Below is a listing of obtainable AWS Summit occasions happening in April:
You can browse all upcoming AWS-led in-person and digital occasions, and developer-focused occasions comparable to AWS DevDay.
That’s all for this week. Check again subsequent Monday for an additional Week in Review!
— Channy