As standard, so much has occurred within the Amazon Net Companies (AWS) universe this previous week. I’m additionally enthusiastic about all of the AWS Neighborhood occasions and initiatives which can be occurring around the globe. Let’s have a look collectively!

Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that received my consideration:

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now helps managed occasion draining – Managed occasion draining means that you can gracefully shutdown workloads deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cases by safely stopping and rescheduling them to different, non-terminating cases. This new functionality streamlines infrastructure upkeep, resembling deploying a brand new AMI model, eliminating the necessity for customized options to shutdown cases with out disrupting their workloads. To study extra, try Nathan’s submit on the AWS Containers Weblog.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now helps multi-source replication – Utilizing multi-source replication, you possibly can configure a number of RDS for MySQL database cases as sources for a single goal database occasion. This characteristic facilitates duties resembling merging shards right into a single goal, consolidating information for analytics, or creating long-term backups inside a single RDS for MySQL occasion. The Amazon RDS for MySQL Person Information has all the main points.

Amazon EMR Studio now comes with simplified create expertise and improved begin instances – With the simplified console expertise for creating EMR Studio, you possibly can launch interactive and batch workloads with default settings extra simply. The improved begin instances allow you to launch EMR Studio Workspaces for performing interactive evaluation in notebooks in seconds. Take a look on the Amazon EMR Person Information to study extra.

For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, make sure to regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS information
Listed below are some extra initiatives, applications, and information objects that you just may discover attention-grabbing:

Summarize information utilizing Amazon Bedrock – My colleague Danilo constructed this software to summarize the newest information from an RSS or Atom feed utilizing Amazon Bedrock. The appliance is deployed as an AWS Lambda operate. The operate downloads the newest entries from an RSS or Atom feed, downloads the linked content material, extracts textual content, and makes a abstract.

AWS Neighborhood Builders program – Eager about becoming a member of our AWS Neighborhood Builders program? The 2024 software is open till January 28. The AWS Neighborhood Builders program affords technical assets, training, and networking alternatives to AWS technical lovers who’re enthusiastic about sharing data and connecting with the technical neighborhood.

AWS Person Teams – The AWS Person Group Yaounde Cameroon launched into a 12-week workshop problem. Over 12 weeks, individuals explored numerous points of AWS and cloud computing, together with structure, safety, storage, and extra, to develop expertise and share data. You may learn extra about this wonderful initiative on this LinkedIn submit.

AWS open-source information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply publication wherein he highlights new open supply initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Neighborhood.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Examine your calendars and join these AWS occasions:

AWS Innovate: AI/ML and Information Version – Register now for the Asia Pacific & Japan AWS Innovate on-line convention on February 22, 2024, to discover, uncover, and discover ways to innovate with synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML). Select from over 50 periods in three languages and get hands-on with technical demos geared toward generative AI builders.

AWS Neighborhood re:Invent re:Caps – Be a part of a Neighborhood re:Cap occasion organized by volunteers from AWS Person Teams and AWS Cloud Golf equipment around the globe to study concerning the newest bulletins from AWS re:Invent.

You may browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.

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

— Antje

This submit is a part of our Weekly Roundup collection. Examine again every week for a fast roundup of attention-grabbing information and bulletins from AWS!