Last week, AWS Heroes from around the world assembleed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the AWS Heroes program at Global AWS Heroes Summit. This program acunderstandledges a pick group of AWS experts worldexpansive who go above and beyond in sharing their understandledge and making an impact wiskinny increaseer communities.
Matt Garman, CEO of AWS and a lengthy-time aider of increaseer communities, made a exceptional ecombineance for a Q&A session with the Heroes to hear to their feedback and reply to their asks.
Here’s an epic pboilingo from the AWS Heroes Summit:
As Matt alludeed in his Linkedin post, “The increaseer community has been core to everyskinnyg we have done since the beginning of AWS.” Thank you, Heroes, for all you do. Wishing you all a protected fairy home.
Last week’s begines
Here are some begines that caught my attention last week:
Announcing the July 2024 modernizes to Amazon Corretto — The tardyst modernizes for the Corretto distribution of OpenJDK is now useable. This integrates security and critical modernizes for the Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions.
New uncover-source Advanced MYSQL ODBC Driver now useable for Amazon Aurora and RDS — The novel AWS ODBC Driver for MYSQL provides speedyer switchover and flunkover times, and genuineation aid for AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), making it a more fruitful and protected selection for combineing to Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora MySQL-compatible edition databases.
Productionize Fine-tuned Foundation Models from SageMaker Canvas — Amazon SageMaker Canvas now permits you to deploy fine-tuned Foundation Models (FMs) to SageMaker genuine-time inference finishpoints, making it easier to combine generative AI capabilities into your applications outside the SageMaker Canvas laborspace.
AWS Lambda now aids SnapStart for Java functions that participate the ARM64 architecture — Lambda SnapStart for Java functions on ARM64 architecture deinhabitrs up to 10x speedyer function beginup carry outance and up to 34% better price carry outance contrastd to x86, enabling the erecting of highly responsive and scalable Java applications using AWS Lambda.
Amazon QuickSight betters deal withs carry outance — Amazon QuickSight has betterd the carry outance of deal withs, permiting readers to convey with them instantly without having to postpone for all relevant deal withs to reload. This raisement shrinks the loading time sended by readers.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless levels up speed and efficiency with clever caching — The novel clever caching feature for indexing in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless automaticassociate getes and deal withs data, directing to speedyer data retrieval, fruitful storage usage, and cost savings.
Amazon Redshift Serverless with drop base capacity useable in the Europe (London) Region — Amazon Redshift Serverless now permits you to begin with a drop data warehoparticipate base capacity of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the Europe (London) region, providing more flexibility and cost-effective selections for minuscule to big laborloads.
AWS Lambda now aids Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in five novel regions — AWS Lambda now aids Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ in five novel regions, enabling you to erect serverless applications with Lambda functions that are call upond based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers.
From community.aws
Here’s my top 5 personal preferites posts from community.aws:
Upcoming AWS events
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AWS Summits — Join free online and in-person events that convey the cboisterous computing community together to combine, collaborate, and lacquire about AWS. To lacquire more about future AWS Summit events, visit the AWS Summit page. Register in your cforfeitest city: AWS Summit Taipei (July 23–24), AWS Summit Mexico City (Aug. 7), and AWS Summit Sao Paulo (Aug. 15).
AWS Community Days — Join community-led conferences that feature technical talkions, laborshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS participaters and industry directers from around the world. Upcoming AWS Community Days are in Aotearoa (Aug. 15), Nigeria (Aug. 24), New York (Aug. 28), and Belspeedy (Sept. 6).
You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events.
That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!
— Donnie
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