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• Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications 20/11/2024
  Securely deliver high-performance web apps with CloudFront VPC origins; serve content directly from private subnets, eliminating undifferentiated work.
  Matheus Guimaraes
• Amazon CloudFront now accepts your applications’ gRPC calls 20/11/2024
  Unlock high-performance APIs with gRPC on Amazon CloudFront. Reduce latency via a global CDN, secure traffic at the edge, and benefit from DDoS protection.
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Streamline container application networking with built-in Amazon ECS support in Amazon VPC Lattice 18/11/2024
  Simplify networking for containerized apps with native VPC Lattice-ECS integration, boosting productivity and flexibility across services.
  Donnie Prakoso
• AWS Lambda SnapStart for Python and .NET functions is now generally available 18/11/2024
  AWS Lambda SnapStart boosts Python and .NET functions' startup times to sub-second levels, often with minimal code changes, enabling highly responsive and scalable serverless apps.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• Build and modify apps using natural language with AWS App Studio, now generally available 18/11/2024
  Unleash your inner developer with AWS App Studio, the generative AI-powered application builder. Turn your idea into fully-fledged, intelligent, custom, secure, and scalable software in minutes.
  Donnie Prakoso
• AWS Lambda turns ten – looking back and looking ahead 18/11/2024
  Explore the journey of AWS Lambda, the pioneering serverless computing service, from its 2013 inception to powering over two million users and tens of trillions of function invocations monthly.
  Jeff Barr
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS BuilderCards at re:Invent 2024, AWS Community Day, Amazon Bedrock, vector databases, and more (Nov 18, 2024) 18/11/2024
  This week, we wrapped up the final 2024 Latin America Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Days of the year in Brazil, with multiple parallel events taking place. In Goiânia, we had Marcelo Palladino, senior developer advocate, and Marcelo Paiva, AWS Community Builder, as keynote speakers. Florianópolis feature Ana Cunha, senior developer advocate, and in Santiago […]
  Elizabeth Fuentes
• Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview) 15/11/2024
  Amazon Data Firehose introduces a new capability that captures database changes and streams updates to a data lake or warehouse, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB, with automatic scaling and minimal impact on transaction performance.
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Centrally managing root access for customers using AWS Organizations 15/11/2024
  Eliminate long-term root credentials, perform privileged tasks via short-lived sessions, and centrally manage root access - aligning with security best practices.
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Introducing resource control policies (RCPs), a new type of authorization policy in AWS Organizations 14/11/2024
  New Resource Control Policies let you centrally restrict AWS service access across accounts, bolstering security with preventative controls that supersede permissive policies - even for external users. See how these powerful governance tools complement Service Control Policies and integrate with AWS services.
  Matheus Guimaraes
• AWS BuilderCards second edition at re:Invent 2024 11/11/2024
  AWS BuilderCards 2nd Edition: Gamify AWS learning with enhanced design, new mission cards, generative AI deck, and improved game mechanics for seamless architecturing fun.
  Jeff Barr
• AWS Weekly Roundup: 20 years of AWS News Blog, Express brokers for Amazon MSK, Windows Server 2025 images on EC2, and more (Nov 11, 2024) 11/11/2024
  Happy 20th Anniversary of the AWS News Blog! 🎉🥳🎊 On November 9, 2004, Jeff Barr published his first blog post. At the time, he started a personal blog site using TypePad. He wanted to speak to his readers with his personal voice, not the company or team. On April 29, 2014, we created a new […]
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• Announcing new APIs for Amazon Location Service Routes, Places, and Maps 08/11/2024
  Amazon Location unveils 17 new APIs with enhanced route optimization, toll cost calculations, GPS trace snapping, proximity search, predictive suggestions, and static/dynamic map rendering - streamlining developer experiences across a wide range of location-based applications.
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Introducing Express brokers for Amazon MSK to deliver high throughput and faster scaling for your Kafka clusters 07/11/2024
  With 3x throughput, 20x faster scaling, and 90% reduced recovery time, Express brokers deliver unmatched performance for Apache Kafka on AWS, streamlining operations while cutting infrastructure costs by 50%.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• Introducing the last cohort of AWS Heroes this year – November 2024 06/11/2024
  As we gear up ahead of AWS re:Invent 2024, we’re thrilled to announce our final cohort of new AWS Heroes! These individuals exemplify expertise and dedication to leveraging AWS technologies and sharing knowledge. Their contributions to the AWS community are greatly appreciated, and today we’re excited to celebrate them. Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan – Bengaluru, India Machine […]
  Taylor Jacobsen
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Redshift, Amazon CloudWatch, and more (Nov 4, 2024) 04/11/2024
  The spooky season has come and gone now. While there aren’t any Halloween-themed releases, AWS has celebrated it in big style by having a plethora of exciting releases last week! I think it’s safe to say that we have truly entered the ‘pre’ re:Invent stage as more and more interesting things are being released every […]
  Matheus Guimaraes
• Fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model in Amazon Bedrock is now generally available 01/11/2024
  Unlock Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku model's full potential with Amazon Bedrock's fine-tuning for enhanced accuracy and customization.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• Unlock the potential of your supply chain data and gain actionable insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics 31/10/2024
  Uncover hidden insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics, powered by Amazon QuickSight, enabling custom reporting and data visualization for smarter supply chain management.
  Donnie Prakoso
• Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available 31/10/2024
  Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless enables massive horizontal scaling for write throughput and storage by distributing workloads across multiple Aurora instances while using standard PostgreSQL queries and syntax.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• Simplify and enhance Amazon S3 static website hosting with AWS Amplify Hosting 30/10/2024
  Deploy static sites with streamlined configuration, custom domains, SSL, CDN, and one-click updates using Amazon S3 with AWS Amplify Hosting.
  Donnie Prakoso