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We are nicely settled into 2025 by now, however many individuals are nonetheless catching up with all of the thrilling new releases and bulletins that got here out of re:Invent final yr. There have been lots of of re:Invent recap occasions all over the world for the reason that starting of the yr, together with in-person all-day official AWS occasions with a number of tracks that can assist you uncover and dive deeper into the releases you care about, in addition to neighborhood and digital occasions.
Last month, I used to be fortunate to be a co-host for AWS EMEA re:Invent re:Cap which was a virtually 4-hour livestream with specialists that includes demos, whiteboard periods, and a stay Q&A. The excellent news is which you can now watch it on-demand! We had a terrific workforce and 1000’s of individuals loved studying by the digital expertise. I like to recommend you test it out or share it with colleagues who haven’t been capable of attend any re:Invent re:Cap occasions.
The Korean workforce additionally did an incredible job internet hosting their very own digital re:Invent re:Cap occasion, and it’s additionally now obtainable on-demand. So in the event you converse Korean I do advocate you test it out.
If you’re extra of a reader, then we’ve got a deal with for you. You can obtain the total official re:Invent re:Cap deck with all of the slides masking releases throughout all areas by visiting community.aws! While there, you too can test all of the upcoming in-person re:Invent re:Cap neighborhood occasions remaining throughout the globe for an opportunity to nonetheless attend a kind of in a metropolis close to you.
But as we all know, new releases, bulletins, and updates don’t cease at re:Invent. Every week there are much more, and because of this we’ve got this Weekly Roundup collection which you can learn each Monday to get the AWS information highlights from the week earlier than.
So right here’s what caught my consideration final week.
Last week’s AWS Launches
If you employ AWS Step Functions you could be fascinated with these:
Amazon Q Developer additionally obtained a few updates:
Here are another releases that caught my consideration this week from a wide range of different AWS companies:
AWS CloudFormation introduces stack refactoring – You can now cut up your CloudFormation stacks, transfer assets from one stack to a different, and alter the logical title of assets throughout the identical stack. This provides loads of flexibility enabling you to maintain up with modifications inside your group and architectures, corresponding to streamlining useful resource lifecycle administration for present stacks, maintaining with naming conference modifications, and different circumstances. You can refactor your stacks by utilizing the AWS command line interface (CLI) or AWS SDK.
AWS Config now helps 4 new launch varieties – AWS Config is nice for monitoring assets throughout your AWS setting and enable you to in direction of guaranteeing alignment together with your firm and safety insurance policies in addition to compliance necessities. It now has 4 new varieties of assets enabling you to observe Amazon VPC block public entry settings, any exceptions made inside these settings, in addition to monitor S3 Express One Zone bucket insurance policies and listing bucket settings.
Automated restoration of Microsoft SQL Server on EC2 instan ces with VSS – You can now use a brand new function known as Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) to backup Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots whereas the database is operating. You can then use AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbook to set a restoration level of time of your choice and it’ll restore the database routinely out of your VSS-based EBS snapshot with out incurring any downtime.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, be sure you keep watch over the What’s New with AWS web page.
Other updates
Upcoming modifications to the AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) international endpoint – To assist enhance the resiliency and efficiency of your functions, we’re making modifications to the AWS STS international endpoint (https://sts.amazonaws.com), with no motion required from prospects. Starting in early 2025, requests to the STS international endpoint can be routinely served in the identical Region as your AWS deployed workloads. For instance, in case your software calls sts.amazonaws.com from the US West (Oregon) Region, your calls can be served regionally within the US West (Oregon) Region as an alternative of being served by the US East (N. Virginia) Region. These modifications can be launched within the coming weeks and we are going to step by step roll it out to AWS Regions which can be enabled by default by mid-2025.
Looking for some studying suggestions? At the start of yearly Dr. Werner Vogles, VP and CTO of Amazon, publishes an inventory of beneficial books that he believes ought to have your consideration. This yr’s listing is wanting significantly good for my part!
Upcoming AWS and neighborhood occasions
AWS Public Sector Day London, February 27 — Join public sector leaders and innovators to discover how AWS is enabling digital transformation in authorities, training, and healthcare.
AWS Innovate GenAI + Data Edition — A free on-line convention specializing in generative AI and knowledge improvements. Available in a number of Regions: APJC and EMEA (March 6), North America (March 13), Greater China Region (March 14), and Latin America (April 8).
Browse extra upcoming AWS led in-person and digital developer-focused occasions.
That’s it for this week! See you subsequent time 