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We’re 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 a whole lot of re:Invent recap occasions world wide because the starting of the yr, together with in-person all-day official AWS occasions with a number of tracks that will help you uncover and dive deeper into the releases you care about, in addition to group and digital occasions.
Final 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 classes, and a reside Q&A. The excellent news is which you could now watch it on-demand! We had a terrific crew and hundreds 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 crew 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 communicate Korean I do suggest you test it out.
Should you’re extra of a reader, then we’ve got a deal with for you. You’ll be able to obtain the complete official re:Invent re:Cap deck with all of the slides masking releases throughout all areas by visiting group.aws! Whereas there, you may as well test all of the upcoming in-person re:Invent re:Cap group occasions remaining throughout the globe for an opportunity to nonetheless attend a kind of in a metropolis close to you.
However as we all know, new releases, bulletins, and updates don’t cease at re:Invent. Each week there are much more, and this is the reason we’ve got this Weekly Roundup collection which you could learn each Monday to get the AWS information highlights from the week earlier than.
So right here’s what caught my consideration final week.
Final week’s AWS Launches
Should you use AWS Step Features you might be excited about these:
Amazon Q Developer additionally received a few updates:
Listed here are another releases that caught my consideration this week from a wide range of different AWS companies:
AWS CloudFormation introduces stack refactoring – Now you can cut up your CloudFormation stacks, transfer assets from one stack to a different, and alter the logical identify of assets throughout the identical stack. This provides a number of flexibility enabling you to maintain up with adjustments inside your group and architectures, resembling streamlining useful resource lifecycle administration for present stacks, maintaining with naming conference adjustments, and different circumstances. You’ll be able to refactor your stacks through the use of the AWS command line interface (CLI) or AWS SDK.
AWS Config now helps 4 new launch sorts – AWS Config is nice for monitoring assets throughout your AWS setting and show you how to in direction of guaranteeing alignment along 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 Categorical One Zone bucket insurance policies and listing bucket settings.
Automated restoration of Microsoft SQL Server on EC2 instan ces with VSS – Now you can use a brand new function referred to as Quantity Shadow Copy Companies (VSS) to backup Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Elastic Block Retailer (EBS) snapshots whereas the database is operating. You’ll be able to then use AWS Techniques Supervisor Automation Runbook to set a restoration level of time of your choice and it’ll restore the database mechanically out of your VSS-based EBS snapshot with out incurring any downtime.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, make sure you control the What’s New with AWS web page.
Different updates
Upcoming adjustments to the AWS Safety Token Service (AWS STS) international endpoint – To assist enhance the resiliency and efficiency of your functions, we’re making adjustments to the AWS STS international endpoint (https://sts.amazonaws.com), with no motion required from prospects. Beginning in early 2025, requests to the STS international endpoint will probably be mechanically served in the identical Area as your AWS deployed workloads. For instance, in case your utility calls sts.amazonaws.com from the US West (Oregon) Area, your calls will probably be served regionally within the US West (Oregon) Area as a substitute of being served by the US East (N. Virginia) Area. These adjustments will probably be launched within the coming weeks and we are going to step by step roll it out to AWS Areas which might be enabled by default by mid-2025.
Searching for some studying suggestions? Firstly 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 notably good in my view!
Upcoming AWS and group occasions
AWS Public Sector Day London, February 27 — Be a part of public sector leaders and innovators to discover how AWS is enabling digital transformation in authorities, training, and healthcare.
AWS Innovate GenAI + Information Version — A free on-line convention specializing in generative AI and information improvements. Accessible in a number of Areas: APJC and EMEA (March 6), North America (March 13), Higher China Area (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 🙂