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Final week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how builders can use generative AI instruments to hurry up their design, evaluation, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These occasions had been held on the GenAI Lofts. These lofts are open till October 25 (London) and November 5 (Paris). They are going to be filled with occasions, conferences, workshops, and meetups. If you happen to’re round, you should definitely test the agenda (London, Paris).
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Our well-known AWS Information weblog co-author Veliswa did an incredible demo. She live-coded a Duolingo-like app from scratch, simply utilizing solutions and opinions from Amazon Q Developer.
Now, let’s flip to different thrilling information within the AWS universe from final week.
Final week’s launches
Listed here are some launches that obtained my consideration:
Convey your conversations to WhatsApp — AWS has added assist for What’sApp to AWS Finish Consumer Messaging, so builders can attain customers on WhatsApp with multimedia and interactive messaging choices. This characteristic integrates with SMS and push notifications already accessible. Builders can get began shortly utilizing AWS Administration Console.
Amazon Redshift knowledge sharing with knowledge lake tables — This gives a safe and handy technique to share stay knowledge lake tables throughout totally different Amazon Redshift warehouses. Information sharing of knowledge lake tables in AWS Glue Information Catalog supplies stay entry to the info, so that you all the time see essentially the most up-to-date and constant info because it’s up to date within the knowledge lake.
Zonal shift and zonal autoshift for cross zoned Community Load Balancer — Community Load Balancer (NLB) now helps the Amazon Software Restoration Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift options on load balancers which might be enabled throughout zones. With Zonal shift, you’ll be able to shortly shift visitors away from an impaired Availability Zone and get well from occasions equivalent to dangerous software deployment and grey failures. Zonal autoshift safely and robotically shifts your visitors away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a possible impression to it.
Console to Code to generate infrastructure as a service code — That is by far my favourite launch of the week. Console to Code makes it easy, quick, and cost-effective to maneuver from prototyping within the AWS Administration Console to constructing code for manufacturing deployments. You may generate code for his or her console actions of their most well-liked format with a single click on. The generated code helps you get began and bootstrap your automation pipelines for duties. Console to Code is powered by Amazon Q Developer.
A brand new getting began expertise for AWS CodePipeline — AWS Information Pipeline introduces a simplified and new getting began expertise so you’ll be able to shortly create new pipelines. Once you create a brand new pipeline utilizing the CodePipeline console, now you can choose from an inventory of pipeline templates throughout construct, automation, and deployment use circumstances. After choosing a pipeline template, you’ll be prompted to enter values for the motion configuration fields within the pipeline definition, and finishing the method will render a totally configured pipeline that’s able to run.
AWS Lambda detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3 — Lambda recursive loop detection can now robotically detect and cease recursive loops between AWS Lambda and Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3). Lambda recursive loop detection, which is enabled by default, is a preventative guardrail that robotically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda and different supported providers, stopping unintended utilization and billing from runaway workloads.
Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey — Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a totally managed, Valkey– and Redis OSS-compatible database service, which supplies multi-AZ sturdiness, microsecond learn and single-digit millisecond write latency, and excessive throughput. It’s superb to be used circumstances equivalent to caching, leaderboards, and session shops. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you’ll be able to profit from a totally managed expertise constructed on open-source expertise whereas utilizing the safety, operational excellence, and reliability that AWS supplies. MemoryDB for Valkey additionally delivers the quickest vector search efficiency on the highest recall charges amongst in style vector databases on AWS.
Amazon Polly provides 4 wew English voices for the generative engine and expands to a few Areas — Polly is a managed service that turns textual content into lifelike speech, so you’ll be able to create purposes that speak and to construct speech-enabled merchandise relying on what you are promoting wants. The generative engine is essentially the most superior Amazon Polly text-to-speech (TTS) mannequin. With this launch, we add a wide range of new artificial generative English voices to the Amazon Polly portfolio: an Australian English voice Olivia and three US English voices Joanna, Danielle, and Stephen. These voices have extra pure pronunciation and prosody. You should use this high-tier product in varied industries and for various functions equivalent to training, publishing, or advertising.
For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, you should definitely keep watch over the AWS What’s New Feed web page.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS Cloud Day Prague — Be a part of us for a free technical conferences in Prague on October 23. I shall be there and share with attendees “The Artwork of Reworking a Basis Mannequin right into a Area Professional”. You’ll want to register as we speak!
Innovate Migrate, Modernize, and Construct — Whether or not you might be new to the cloud or an skilled person, you’ll study one thing new at AWS Innovate. It is a free on-line convention. Register for a time and area handy to North America (October 15), or Europe, Center East & Africa (October 24).
AWS Group Days — Be a part of community-led conferences that includes technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and trade leaders from around the globe. Don’t miss out on the AWS Group Days occurring on October 19 in Vadodara, Spain, and Guatemala.
AWS re:Invent 2024 — Registration is now open for the annual tech extravaganza, happening December 2 – 6 in Las Vegas. Beside recording podcast episodes, I’ll current three classes:
- CMP410 | Speed up testing cycles of CI/CD pipelines with EC2 Mac situations (with Vishal)
- DEV301 | The artwork of remodeling basis fashions into area specialists (with Gregory)
- DEV334 | Swift, server-side, serverless
There are only a few seats left for these three classes, so you should definitely e-book your seat as we speak!
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