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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 have 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. When you’re round, you’ll want 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 recommendations 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 here are some launches that acquired my consideration:
Convey your conversations to WhatsApp — AWS has added help 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 knowledge sharing with knowledge lake tables — This affords a safe and handy option to share reside knowledge lake tables throughout totally different Amazon Redshift warehouses. Knowledge sharing of knowledge lake tables in AWS Glue Knowledge Catalog supplies reside entry to the information, so that you all the time see essentially the most up-to-date and constant data 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 Utility 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 rapidly shift visitors away from an impaired Availability Zone and get better from occasions comparable to unhealthy utility deployment and grey failures. Zonal autoshift safely and routinely shifts your visitors away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a possible affect 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 Knowledge Pipeline introduces a simplified and new getting began expertise so you’ll be able to rapidly 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 instances. 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 routinely 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 routinely 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 ultimate to be used instances 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 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 3 Areas — Polly is a managed service that turns textual content into lifelike speech, so you’ll be able to create purposes 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 should utilize this high-tier product in varied industries and for various functions comparable to schooling, publishing, or advertising and marketing.
For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, you’ll want to control the AWS What’s New Feed web page.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Test 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 shall be there and share with attendees “The Artwork of Reworking a Basis Mannequin right into a Area Professional”. Be sure you register as we speak!
Innovate Migrate, Modernize, and Construct — Whether or not you’re 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 knowledgeable AWS customers and business 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 consultants (with Gregory)
- DEV334 | Swift, server-side, serverless
There are only a few seats left for these three classes, so you’ll want to e-book your seat as we speak!
Browse extra upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions and developer-focused occasions.
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