Thursday, July 4, 2024

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q, Amazon QuickSight, AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Bedrock, and extra (Might 6, 2024)

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April has been full of new releases! Final week continued that development with many new releases supporting a wide range of domains reminiscent of safety, analytics, devops, and plenty of extra, in addition to extra thrilling new capabilities inside generative AI.

Should you missed the AWS Summit London 2024, now you can watch the periods on demand, together with the keynote by Tanuja Randery, VP & Advertising and marketing Director, EMEA, and lots of the break-out periods which can proceed to be launched over the approaching weeks.

Final week’s launches
Listed here are a number of the highlights that caught my consideration this week:

Guide and computerized rollback from any stage in AWS CodePipeline – Now you can rollback any stage, apart from Supply, to any beforehand recognized good state in in the event you use a V2 pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. You’ll be able to configure computerized rollback which can use the supply modifications from the newest profitable pipeline execution within the case of failure, or you may provoke a guide rollback for any stage from the console, API or SDK and select which pipeline execution you wish to use for the rollback.

AWS CodeArtifact now helps RubyGems – Ruby neighborhood, rejoice, now you can retailer your gems in AWS CodeArtifact! You’ll be able to combine it with RubyGems.org, and CodeArtifact will robotically fetch any gems requested by the shopper and retailer them domestically in your CodeArtifact repository. Which means you could have a centralized place for each your first-party and public gems so builders can entry their dependencies from a single supply.

Ruby-repo screenshot

Create a repository in AWS CodeArtifact and select “rubygems-store” to attach your repository to RubyGems.org on the “Public upstream repositories” dropdown.

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now helps occasion supply by means of AWS PrivateLink – Now you can ship occasions to an Amazon EventBridge Pipes goal with out traversing the general public web by utilizing AWS PrivateLink. You’ll be able to ballot for occasions in a personal subnet in your Amazon Digital Personal Cloud (VPC) with out having to deploy any extra infrastructure to maintain your visitors non-public.

Amazon Bedrock launches proceed. Now you can run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+. And Amazon Titan Textual content V2 is now optimized for bettering Retrieval-Augmented Era (RAG).

AWS Trusted Advisor – final yr we launched Trusted Advisor APIs enabling you to programmatically devour suggestions. A brand new API is out there now that you need to use to exclude sources from suggestions.

Amazon EC2 – there have been two new nice launches this week for EC2 customers. Now you can mark your AMIs as “protected” to keep away from them being deregistered accidentally. You too can now simply uncover your lively AMIs by merely describing them.

Amazon CodeCatalyst – now you can view your git commit historical past within the CodeCatalyst console.

Normal Availability
Many new companies and capabilities grew to become usually out there this week.

Amazon Q in QuickSight – Amazon Q has introduced generative BI to Amazon QuickSight supplying you with the power to construct lovely dashboards robotically just by utilizing pure language and it’s now usually out there. To get began, head to the Quicksight Pricing web page to discover all choices or begin a 30-day free trial which permits as much as 4 customers per QuickSight account to make use of all the brand new generative AI options.

With the brand new generative AI options enabled by Amazon Q in Amazon QuickSight you need to use pure language queries to construct, type and filter dashboards. (supply: AWS Documentation)

Amazon Q Enterprise (GA) and Amazon Q Apps (Preview) – Additionally usually out there now could be Amazon Q Enterprise which we launched final yr at AWS re:Invent 2023 with the power to attach seamlessly with over 40 well-liked enterprise programs, together with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), Gmail, and so many extra. This enables Amazon Q Enterprise to learn about your enterprise so your staff can generate content material, clear up issues, and take actions which can be particular to your enterprise.

We have now additionally launched help for customized plug-ins, so now you may create your personal integrations with any third-party utility.

Q-business screenshot

With normal availability of Amazon Q Enterprise we’ve additionally launched the power to create your personal customized plugins to hook up with any third-party API.

One other spotlight of this launch is the launch of Amazon Q Apps, which allows you to rapidly generate an app out of your dialog with Amazon Q Enterprise, or by describing what you desire to it to generate for you. All guardrails from Amazon Q Enterprise apply, and it’s straightforward to share your apps with colleagues by means of an admin-managed library. Amazon Q Apps is in preview now.

Take a look at Channy Yun’s submit for a deeper dive into Amazon Q Enterprise and Amazon Q Apps, which guides you thru these new options.

Amazon Q Developer – you may use Q Developer to fully change your developer stream. It has all of the capabilities of what was beforehand often known as Amazon CodeWhisperer, reminiscent of Q&A, diagnosing widespread errors, producing code together with assessments, and plenty of extra. Now it has expanded, so you need to use it to generate SQL, and construct knowledge integration pipelines utilizing pure language. In preview, it will probably describe sources in your AWS account and assist you to retrieve and analyze price knowledge from AWS Value Explorer.

For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure you keep watch over the ‘What’s New with AWS?‘ web page.

Different AWS information
Listed here are some extra tasks, weblog posts, and information objects that you simply may discover fascinating:

AWS open supply information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes about open supply tasks, instruments, and occasions from the AWS Neighborhood.

Uncover Claude 3 – Should you’re a developer searching for a very good supply to get began with Claude 3 them I like to recommend this nice submit from my colleague Haowen Huang: Mastering Amazon Bedrock with Claude 3: Developer’s Information with Demos.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendars and join upcoming AWS occasions:

AWS Summits – Be part of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Singapore (Might 7), Seoul (Might 16–17), Hong Kong (Might 22), Milan (Might 23), Stockholm (June 4), and Madrid (June 5).

AWS re:Inforce – Discover 2.5 days of immersive cloud safety studying within the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania.

AWS Neighborhood Days – Be part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by skilled AWS customers and trade leaders from all over the world: Turkey (Might 18), Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28).

GOTO EDA Day LondonBe part of us in London on Might 14 to study event-driven architectures (EDA) for constructing extremely scalable, fault tolerant, and extensible purposes. This convention is organized by GOTO, AWS, and companions.

Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions and developer-focused occasions.

That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

Matheus Guimaraes

This submit is a part of our Weekly Roundup collection. Verify again every week for a fast roundup of fascinating information and bulletins from AWS!



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