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As normal, loads has occurred within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) universe this previous week. I’m additionally enthusiastic about all of the AWS Community occasions and initiatives which are occurring world wide. Let’s have a look collectively!
Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that received my consideration:
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now helps managed occasion draining – Managed occasion draining lets you gracefully shutdown workloads deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cases by safely stopping and rescheduling them to different, non-terminating cases. This new functionality streamlines infrastructure upkeep, corresponding to deploying a brand new AMI model, eliminating the necessity for customized options to shutdown cases with out disrupting their workloads. To be taught extra, take a look at Nathan’s submit on the AWS Containers Blog.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now helps multi-source replication – Using multi-source replication, you’ll be able to configure a number of RDS for MySQL database cases as sources for a single goal database occasion. This characteristic facilitates duties corresponding to merging shards right into a single goal, consolidating information for analytics, or creating long-term backups inside a single RDS for MySQL occasion. The Amazon RDS for MySQL User Guide has all the small print.
Amazon EMR Studio now comes with simplified create expertise and improved begin occasions – With the simplified console expertise for creating EMR Studio, you’ll be able to launch interactive and batch workloads with default settings extra simply. The improved begin occasions allow you to launch EMR Studio Workspaces for performing interactive evaluation in notebooks in seconds. Have a have a look at the Amazon EMR User Guide to be taught extra.
For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, make sure you keep watch over the What’s New at AWS web page.
Other AWS information
Here are some further initiatives, applications, and information objects that you just may discover attention-grabbing:
Summarize information utilizing Amazon Bedrock – My colleague Danilo constructed this application to summarize the latest information from an RSS or Atom feed utilizing Amazon Bedrock. The utility is deployed as an AWS Lambda operate. The operate downloads the latest entries from an RSS or Atom feed, downloads the linked content material, extracts textual content, and makes a abstract.
AWS Community Builders program – Interested in becoming a member of our AWS Community Builders program? The 2024 utility is open till January 28. The AWS Community Builders program gives technical sources, schooling, and networking alternatives to AWS technical fanatics who’re obsessed with sharing information and connecting with the technical neighborhood.
AWS User Groups – The AWS User Group Yaounde Cameroon launched into a 12-week workshop problem. Over 12 weeks, contributors explored numerous points of AWS and cloud computing, together with structure, safety, storage, and extra, to develop abilities and share information. You can learn extra about this superb initiative on this LinkedIn submit.
AWS open-source information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply e-newsletter by which he highlights new open supply initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Community.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Check your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS Innovate: AI/ML and Data Edition – Register now for the Asia Pacific & Japan AWS Innovate on-line convention on February 22, 2024, to discover, uncover, and learn to innovate with synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML). Choose from over 50 periods in three languages and get hands-on with technical demos geared toward generative AI builders.
AWS Community re:Invent re:Caps – Join a Community re:Cap occasion organized by volunteers from AWS User Groups and AWS Cloud Clubs world wide to be taught concerning the newest bulletins from AWS re:Invent.
You can browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Check again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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