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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 full of occasions, conferences, workshops, and meetups. In case you’re round, make sure to examine the agenda (London, Paris).
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Our well-known AWS Information weblog co-author Veliswa did a tremendous demo. She live-coded a Duolingo-like app from scratch, simply utilizing solutions and evaluations from Amazon Q Developer.
Now, let’s flip to different thrilling information within the AWS universe from final week.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that obtained my consideration:
Deliver 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 rapidly utilizing AWS Administration Console.
Amazon Redshift information sharing with information lake tables — This provides a safe and handy approach to share stay information lake tables throughout totally different Amazon Redshift warehouses. Information sharing of knowledge lake tables in AWS Glue Information Catalog offers stay entry to the info, so that you at all times see essentially the most up-to-date and constant data because it’s up to date within the information lake.
Zonal shift and zonal autoshift for cross zoned Community Load Balancer — Community Load Balancer (NLB) now helps the Amazon Utility Restoration Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift options on load balancers which are enabled throughout zones. With Zonal shift, you’ll be able to rapidly shift site visitors away from an impaired Availability Zone and recuperate from occasions comparable to dangerous software deployment and grey failures. Zonal autoshift safely and mechanically shifts your site 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’ll be able to generate code for his or her console actions of their most popular 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 CodePipeline introduces a simplified and new getting began expertise so you’ll be able to rapidly create new pipelines. Whenever 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 may 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 mechanically 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 mechanically 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 is a totally managed, Valkey– and Redis OSS-compatible database service, which offers multi-AZ sturdiness, microsecond learn and single-digit millisecond write latency, and excessive throughput. It’s ideally suited to be used circumstances comparable 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 offers. MemoryDB for Valkey additionally delivers the quickest vector search efficiency on the highest recall charges amongst fashionable vector databases on AWS.
Amazon Polly provides 4 new English voices for the generative engine and expands to 3 Areas — Polly is a managed service that turns textual content into lifelike speech, so you’ll be able to create functions that discuss 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 quite a lot 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 need to use this high-tier product in varied industries and for various functions comparable to schooling, publishing, or advertising.
For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure to keep watch over the AWS What’s New Feed web page.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Examine your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS Cloud Day Prague — Be part of us for a free technical conferences in Prague on October 23. I will likely be there and share with attendees “The Artwork of Reworking a Basis Mannequin right into a Area Knowledgeable”. Make sure you register at this time!
Innovate Migrate, Modernize, and Construct — Whether or not you might be new to the cloud or an skilled consumer, you’ll be taught 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 part of community-led conferences that includes technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and business leaders from around the globe. Don’t miss out on the AWS Group Days taking place 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 periods:
- 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 periods, so make sure to e book your seat at this time!
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