AWS Weekly Roundup — AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Rekognition, and more — December 18, 2023

My memories of Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2023 are still fresh even when I’m currently wrapping up my activities in Jakarta after participating in AWS Community Day Indonesia. It was a great experience, from delivering chalk talks and having thoughtful discussions with AWS service teams, to meeting with AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and Read more about AWS Weekly Roundup — AWS Lambda, AWS Amplify, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon Rekognition, and more — December 18, 2023[…]

Mastering AWS with amazon.aws 7.0: A Dive into New Modules for Enhanced Security and Seamless Migrations

As the technology landscape continues to evolve, the latest release of the Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for amazon.aws introduces a suite of powerful modules that redefine the boundaries of automation within Amazon Web Services (AWS) while redefining how organizations approach security deployments and seamless migrations within the AWS ecosystem. In our previous blog Read more about Mastering AWS with amazon.aws 7.0: A Dive into New Modules for Enhanced Security and Seamless Migrations[…]

New for AWS Amplify – Query MySQL and PostgreSQL database for AWS CDK

Today we are announcing the general availability to connect and query your existing MySQL and PostgreSQL databases with support for AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), a new feature to create a real-time, secure GraphQL API for your relational database within or outside Amazon Web Services (AWS). You can now generate the entire API for Read more about New for AWS Amplify – Query MySQL and PostgreSQL database for AWS CDK[…]

What’s New: Cloud Automation with amazon.aws 7.0.0

When it comes to Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure automation, the latest release of the certified amazon.aws Ansible Content Collection for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform brings a number of enhancements to improve the overall user experience and speed up the process from development to production. This blog post goes through changes and highlights what’s Read more about What’s New: Cloud Automation with amazon.aws 7.0.0[…]

Use AWS Fault Injection Service to demonstrate multi-region and multi-AZ application resilience

AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) helps you to put chaos engineering into practice at scale. Today we are launching new scenarios that will let you demonstrate that your applications perform as intended if an AWS Availability Zone experiences a full power interruption or connectivity from one AWS region to another is lost. You can use Read more about Use AWS Fault Injection Service to demonstrate multi-region and multi-AZ application resilience[…]

IDE extension for AWS Application Composer enhances visual modern applications development with AI-generated IaC

Today, I’m happy to share the integrated development environment (IDE) extension for AWS Application Composer. Now you can use AWS Application Composer directly in your IDE to visually build modern applications and iteratively develop your infrastructure as code templates with Amazon CodeWhisperer. Announced as preview at AWS re:Invent 2022 and generally available in March 2023, Application Composer is Read more about IDE extension for AWS Application Composer enhances visual modern applications development with AI-generated IaC[…]

Easily deploy SaaS products with new Quick Launch in AWS Marketplace

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of SaaS Quick Launch, a new feature in AWS Marketplace that makes it easy and secure to deploy SaaS products. Before SaaS Quick Launch, configuring and launching third-party SaaS products could be time-consuming and costly, especially in certain categories like security and monitoring. Some products require Read more about Easily deploy SaaS products with new Quick Launch in AWS Marketplace[…]

AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in AWS Application Composer

Today, we’re announcing that AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in AWS Application Composer. This new integration brings together the development of workflows and application resources into a unified visual infrastructure as code (IaC) builder. Now, you can have a seamless transition between authoring workflows with AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio and defining resources with AWS Read more about AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio is now available in AWS Application Composer[…]

AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023

Last week I saw an astonishing 160+ new service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts for re:Invent Read more about AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023[…]

New – Multi-account search in AWS Resource Explorer

With AWS Resource Explorer, you can search for and discover your resources, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon Kinesis data streams, and Amazon DynamoDB tables, across AWS Regions. Starting today, you can also search across accounts within your organization. It takes just a few minutes to turn on and configure Resource Read more about New – Multi-account search in AWS Resource Explorer[…]