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Comfortable twentieth Anniversary of the AWS Information Weblog! 🎉🥳🎊 On November 9, 2004, Jeff Barr printed his first weblog put up. On the time, he began a private weblog web site utilizing TypePad. He needed to talk to his readers along with his private voice, not the corporate or crew.
On April 29, 2014, we created a brand new AWS weblog web site and migrated all posts to that web page. There are at the moment over 4,300 posts on the AWS Information Weblog, with Jeff contributing over 3,200 of them.
Since December 2016, the AWS Information Weblog has added new writers, however we’re nonetheless following Jeff’s management principals for AWS Information Bloggers in accordance with Day One. What’s distinctive in regards to the AWS Information Weblog is that the weblog writers get to make use of the options of the product crew prematurely, following the Buyer Obsession management precept, and give attention to walk-throughs of how prospects can shortly use them to save lots of time, with the Frugality precept.
I’m very grateful for Jeff’s basic and pivotal function over the previous 20 years, and I stay up for the subsequent 20 years!
Final week’s launches
Listed here are some launches that bought my consideration:
New Categorical brokers for Amazon MSK – Categorical brokers are a brand new dealer kind for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to ship as much as 3 times extra throughput per dealer, scale as much as 20 instances sooner, and scale back restoration time by 90 p.c as in comparison with commonplace Apache Kafka brokers. Categorical brokers come preconfigured with Kafka greatest practices by default, assist all Kafka APIs, and supply the identical low-latency efficiency, so you’ll be able to proceed utilizing present consumer purposes with none modifications.
New Amazon Kinesis Shopper Library 3.0 – Now you can scale back compute prices to course of streaming knowledge by as much as 33 p.c with Kinesis Shopper Library (KCL) 3.0, in comparison with earlier KCL variations. KCL 3.0 introduces an enhanced load balancing algorithm that constantly displays useful resource utilization of the stream processing employees and mechanically redistributes the load from overutilized employees to different underutilized employees. To be taught extra, learn the AWS Massive Information Weblog put up.
Microsoft Home windows Server 2025 photographs on Amazon EC2 – We now assist Microsoft Home windows Server 2025 with License Included (LI) Amazon Machine Pictures (AMIs), offering prospects with a straightforward and versatile option to launch the newest model of Home windows Server. By operating Home windows Server 2025 on Amazon EC2, prospects can benefit from the safety, efficiency, and reliability of AWS with the newest Home windows Server options. To be taught extra about operating Home windows Server 2025 on Amazon EC2, go to Home windows Workloads on AWS.
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Haiku mannequin in Amazon Bedrock – Claude 3.5 Haiku is the subsequent era of Anthropic’s quickest mannequin, combining fast response instances with improved reasoning capabilities, making it supreme for duties that require each pace and intelligence. Claude 3.5 Haiku improves throughout each ability set and surpasses even Claude 3 Opus, the biggest mannequin in Anthropic’s earlier era, on many intelligence benchmarks—together with coding. To be taught extra, learn the AWS Information Weblog put up.
Amazon Bedrock Immediate Administration GA – You possibly can simplify the creation, testing, versioning, and sharing of prompts in Amazon Bedrock Immediate Administration. At common availability, we added new options that present enhanced choices for configuring your prompts and enabling seamless integration for invoking them in your generative AI purposes, akin to structured prompts and Converse and InvokeModel API integration. To be taught extra, learn the AWS Machine Studying weblog put up.
Six new artificial generative voices for Amazon Polly – The generative engine is Amazon Polly’s most superior text-to-speech (TTS) mannequin leveraging the generative AI know-how. We added six new artificial female-sounding generative voices: Ayanda (South African English), LĂ©a (French), Lucia (European Spanish), Lupe (American Spanish), MĂa (Mexican Spanish), and Vicki (German). This extends 13 voices and 9 locales to offer you extra choices of extremely expressive and fascinating voices.
Amazon OpenSearch Service Prolonged Assist – We announce the tip of Normal Assist and Prolonged Assist timelines for legacy Elasticsearch variations and OpenSearch Variations. Normal Assist ends on Nov 7, 2025, for legacy Elasticsearch variations as much as 6.7, Elasticsearch variations 7.1 via 7.8, OpenSearch variations from 1.0 via 1.2, and OpenSearch variations 2.3 via 2.9. With Prolonged Assist, for an incremental flat price over common occasion pricing, you proceed to get important safety updates past the tip of Normal Assist. To be taught extra, learn the AWS Massive Information Weblog put up.
Different AWS information
Listed here are some further information objects that you just would possibly discover attention-grabbing:
CEO’s visiting at AWS knowledge middle – Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, had a good time visiting considered one of our AWS knowledge facilities not too long ago, and was in a position to get a have a look at the continual innovation delivered by the crew. After all, it’s no shock that Amazon’s senior executives go to achievement facilities, contact facilities, and knowledge facilities, to do actual work for purchasers. AWS knowledge facilities are designed for purchasers in each side, for optimum resilience, efficiency, and vitality effectivity.
AWS helps small companies, creates jobs, units up sustainability initiatives, and develops academic packages close to AWS knowledge facilities. Get the newest updates – AWS in your neighborhood: Right here’s what’s taking place close to knowledge facilities throughout the US on About Amazon Information.
Amazon Q Enterprise at Amazon – I launched an Amazon story to make use of Code transformation in Amazon Q Developer to migrate greater than outdated 30,000 Java purposes to Java 17 model. It saved over 4,500 developer years of effort in comparison with earlier handbook jobs and saved the corporate $260 million in annual by transferring to the newest Java model.
Right here is one other dogfooding story of Amazon Q Enterprise at Amazon. Amazon constructed an inner chatbot with Amazon Q Enterprise and it has resolved over 1 million inner Amazon developer questions, lowering time spent churning on handbook technical investigations by greater than 450,000 hours.
Our crew onboarded Amazon Q Enterprise with thousands and thousands of inner paperwork and built-in Q Enterprise into the instruments our crew use each day. Now, as a substitute of ready hours for responses to complicated technical questions on Q&A boards or Slack channels, builders can get solutions in seconds.
TOURCast at PGA TOUR – In case you get pleasure from golf, this information will likely be of curiosity to you. The PGA TOUR debuted TOURCast in Japan on the 2024 ZOZO Championship to seize and disseminate higher statistical knowledge and produce followers nearer to the sport based mostly on new scoring system known as ShotLink, powered by CDW. This marks the primary time the PGA TOUR has been in a position to convey this know-how to Asia, leveraging the pliability and scalability of AWS to beat distinctive challenges.
PGA TOUR volunteer organising GPS gear on the golf green at ZOZO championship that can enter particular shot knowledge and feed again to Shotlink Choose Plus. [IMAGE: PGA TOUR]
They’ve fully rebuilt their scoring system over the previous two years on a brand new cloud stack. With AWS cloud, whether or not knowledge comes from high-tech radar methods, cameras, or handbook enter, the system processes all of it seamlessly.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Examine your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS GenAI Lofts – AWS GenAI Lofts are about extra than simply the tech, they create collectively startups, builders, buyers, and trade specialists. Whether or not you’re seeking to acquire deep insights, or get your questions answered by generative AI execs, our GenAI Lofts have you ever coated, and supply the whole lot you have to begin constructing your subsequent innovation. Be a part of occasions in São Paulo (via November 20), and Paris (via November 25).
AWS Neighborhood Days – Be a part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable AWS customers and trade leaders from world wide: Jakarta, Indonesia (November 23), Kochi, India (December 14).
AWS re:Invent – You possibly can nonetheless register for the annual studying occasion, happening December 2–6 in Las Vegas. Surprisingly Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon stated he’ll come again and take part in AWS re:Invent this yr. He stated “As all the time, the precedence is to make this a studying occasion so prospects can take nuggets again and alter their very own buyer experiences and companies. We’ll even have a bunch of goodies for you that we’ll announce and that we expect people will like.” Let’s meet there!
You possibly can browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
— Channy
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