Cloud Infrastructure Community Program

[Bob Flynn <>]

Greetings from TechEX24 in Beantown, where I was fortunate to have dinner last night with our AWS rockstar partners Jan Day and Kevin Murakoshi. That is the same Kevin who will be delivering the annual, mind-blowing, re:Invent re:Cap next week. If you don’t already have it on your calendar, register now. It is not to be missed!

 

~Bob @ I2

(he/him/his)

 

 

From: Murakoshi, Kevin <>
Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 09:34
Subject: FW: AWS Roadmap Items of Interest

Fun fact of the week:

 

Cryptography originates from Greek words that mean “secret writing.” In ancient times, cryptography involved the use of ciphers and secret codes. Today, it relies on sophisticated mathematical models to protect data from being altered or accessed inappropriately. Cryptography is often invisible, but it is essential for most Internet activities such as messaging, e-commerce, and banking.

In recent years, a type of cryptographic technology called blockchain—which records transactions in distributed ledgers in the computing cloud that cannot be altered retroactively without being detected—has been used for a variety of applications, including time stamping and ensuring the provenance of information, identity management, supply chain management, and cryptocurrencies. Blockchain technologies can provide a transparent, secure way to track the movement of goods, their origin, quantity, and so forth, thereby improving efficiency in global supply chains and limiting underground or illegal extractions of certain materials.

 

Source: https://setr.stanford.edu/news/cryptography-shield-secrets-and-security

 

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Hello Team!

On behalf of your AWS Enterprise Account Team, I present a recap of last week's launches.

Follow the AWS Blog, What's New from Amazon Web Services, and AWS Podcasts for up-to-date news and information.

Please contact us if you have any questions or need more information on any of these services.

 

Launch recap from last week (67 items):

What's New at AWS - Cloud Innovation & News

Product	Details	Date
Amazon Athena	Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries	December 03, 2024
Amazon Aurora	Amazon Aurora now available as a quick create vector store in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases	December 06, 2024
Amazon Aurora	Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview)	December 03, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock announces preview of prompt caching	December 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now available in preview	December 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports structured data retrieval	December 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing is now available in preview	December 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports Automated Reasoning checks (Preview)	December 03, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Announcing Amazon Nova foundation models available today in Amazon Bedrock	December 03, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports multimodal toxicity detection for image content (Preview)	December 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now processes multimodal data	December 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Marketplace brings over 100 models to Amazon Bedrock	December 04, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is now available in preview	December 03, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaboration	December 03, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Announcing Amazon Bedrock IDE in preview as part of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio	December 03, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Introducing latency-optimized inference for foundation models in Amazon Bedrock	December 02, 2024
Amazon Bedrock	Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports GraphRAG (preview)	December 04, 2024
Amazon DynamoDB	Amazon DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency	December 03, 2024
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region	December 06, 2024
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region	December 06, 2024
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances are generally available	December 03, 2024
Amazon EC2	Amazon EC2 P5en instances, optimized for generative AI and HPC, are generally available	December 02, 2024
Amazon Kendra	Announcing GenAI Index in Amazon Kendra	December 04, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer can now guide SageMaker Canvas users through ML development	December 04, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer now provides transformation capabilities for .NET porting (Preview)	December 03, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Business introduces over 50 actions for popular business applications and platforms	December 03, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer announces automatic unit test generation to accelerate feature development	December 03, 2024
Amazon Q	Announcing GitLab Duo with Amazon Q (Preview)	December 03, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer can now automate code reviews	December 03, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer adds operational investigation capability (Preview)	December 03, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer can now generate documentation within your source code	December 03, 2024
Amazon Q	Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for mainframe modernization are now available (Preview)	December 03, 2024
Amazon QuickSight	Announcing scenarios analysis capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight (preview)	December 04, 2024
Amazon QuickSight	Amazon Q in QuickSight unifies insights from structured and unstructured data	December 03, 2024
Amazon QuickSight	Amazon Q Business now provides insights from your databases and data warehouses (preview)	December 03, 2024
Amazon RDS	Amazon RDS Performance Insights extends On-demand Analysis to new regions	December 06, 2024
Amazon S3	Announcing Amazon S3 Metadata (Preview) – Easiest and fastest way to manage your metadata	December 03, 2024
Amazon S3	Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with AWS Glue	December 03, 2024
Amazon S3	Announcing Amazon S3 Tables – Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads	December 03, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Amazon SageMaker introduces new capabilities to accelerate scaling of Generative AI Inference	December 06, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	SageMaker SDK enhances training and inference workflows	December 06, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	AWS announces Amazon SageMaker Partner AI Apps	December 04, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse	December 03, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Introducing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker	December 03, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	AWS announces Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse	December 03, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Introducing Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance	December 03, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Announcing the preview of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio	December 03, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Data Lineage is now generally available in Amazon DataZone and next generation of Amazon SageMaker	December 03, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Task governance is now generally available for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod	December 04, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides flexible training plans	December 04, 2024
Amazon SageMaker	Announcing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes	December 04, 2024
Amazon Security Lake	Introducing the Amazon Security Lake Ready Specialization	December 04, 2024
Amazon VPC	VPC Lattice now includes TCP support with VPC Resources	December 02, 2024
AWS AI Service Cards	Announcing new AWS AI Service Cards to advance responsible generative AI	December 04, 2024
AWS Config	Amazon CloudWatch now provides centralized visibility into telemetry configurations	December 06, 2024
AWS Config	AWS Config now supports a service-linked recorder	December 06, 2024
AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency	Introducing the AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency	December 04, 2024
AWS Education Equity Initiative	AWS Education Equity Initiative to boost education for underserved learners	December 04, 2024
AWS Glue	AWS expands data connectivity for Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and AWS Glue	December 03, 2024
AWS Glue	Introducing AWS Glue 5.0	December 03, 2024
AWS Glue	Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift support for zero-ETL integrations from eight applications	December 03, 2024
AWS Glue	AWS Glue Data catalog now automates generating statistics for new tables	December 03, 2024
AWS Marketplace	Buy with AWS accelerates solution discovery and procurement on AWS Partner websites	December 04, 2024
AWS Marketplace	Start collaborating on multi-partner opportunities with Partner Connections (Preview)	December 04, 2024
AWS Marketplace	Deploy GROW with SAP on AWS from AWS Marketplace	December 02, 2024
AWS Partner Network	Respond and recovery more quickly with AWS Security Incident Response Partners	December 04, 2024
AWS Partner Network	AWS Security Competency Update: New AI Security Category	December 04, 2024

Latest AWS Blog posts:

Date	Item
December 04, 2024	Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace
December 04, 2024	Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes
December 04, 2024	AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators
December 04, 2024	Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight
December 04, 2024	Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
December 04, 2024	Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)
December 04, 2024	New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval
December 04, 2024	Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)
December 04, 2024	Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one place
December 04, 2024	Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans
December 04, 2024	Maximize accelerator utilization for model development with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
December 03, 2024	Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries
December 03, 2024	Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applications
December 03, 2024	Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
December 03, 2024	New Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
December 03, 2024	Discover, govern, and collaborate on data and AI securely with Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance
December 03, 2024	Announcing the general availability of data lineage in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone
December 03, 2024	Introducing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker: The center for all your data, analytics, and AI
December 03, 2024	Amazon Q Business is adding new workflow automation capability and 50+ action integrations
December 03, 2024	New capabilities from Amazon Q Business enable ISVs to enhance generative AI experiences

 

Latest Security Blog posts:

Date	Item
December 06, 2024	AWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launch
December 05, 2024	AWS post-quantum cryptography migration plan
December 03, 2024	Preparing for take-off: Regulatory perspectives on generative AI adoption within Australian financial services

 

Latest Architecture Blog posts:

Date	Item
December 06, 2024	Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming GmbH
December 02, 2024	Let’s Architect! Serverless developer experience in AWS

 

Security Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
November 09, 2024	Issue with data.all (Multiple CVEs)

 

Amazon Linux 2023 Advisories last 30 days:

Date	Item
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-756 (important): xorg-x11-server
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-757 (important): python3.11
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-758 (medium): ecs-service-connect-agent
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-759 (important): expat
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-760 (low): unbound
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-761 (medium): vim
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-762 (medium): python3.11-pip
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-763 (medium): python-idna
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-764 (medium): python-pip
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-765 (medium): kernel
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-766 (medium): nodejs
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-767 (medium): python-pillow
November 13, 2024	ALAS-2024-768 (medium): nodejs20

 

AWS Online Tech Talks:

AWS Online Tech Talks Website | View Past Webinar Recordings

Date	Topic	Level
On Demand	Getting Started with AWS DMS Fleet Advisor	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	ML-powered Predictive Maintenance for Industrial Operations	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Enabling Oracle E-Business Suite on Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Build Apache Spark Apps and Integrate Them with Redshift	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Building a comprehensive security solution with AWS Security services	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Opensource Table Formats with AWS Glue and Amazon EMR	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Building a personalization solution just got easier with Amazon Personalize	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Preparing data at scale with Amazon SageMaker notebooks	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with ElastiCache for Redis Performance & Cost Optimization	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) 5.0 features	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Bear Conservation with ML, Serverless and Citizen Science	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Simplify Data Discovery with Amazon Redshift Query Editor	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	How to: Porting Advisor For Graviton	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Getting started with Amazon Aurora Global Database	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building GenAI Experiences on AWS Ep 2	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Protect Amazon RDS for Oracle with managed Oracle Data Guard switchover	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Designing a DR strategy on Amazon RDS for SQL Server	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Ingest, Manage, and Analyze Data with Central Governance	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Increase accuracy with Amazon Rekognition Content Moderation Version 6	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Break down barriers to knowledge with Amazon Kendra	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Automatically Provision and Scale OpenSearch with AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB Observability and Monitoring	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Harnessing Low-code/No-Code Machine Learning on AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Centralize Data Lake Security Management with AWS	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Improve Search Relevance with Amazon OpenSearch Service	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Accelerate cloud migration and app modernization with AWS Identity Services	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Serverless Framework with Amazon CodeCatalyst	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Event Detection with Amazon MSK and Kinesis Data Analytics	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Easily Integrate Analytics into your apps using Amazon QuickSight	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Bring intelligent insights to your industrial operations with Amazon Monitron	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Detect Bias in ML Data, Models & Explain Predictions	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Deliver low latency multiplayer games with AWS edge infrastructure	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Carbyne delivers cloud native 9-1-1 call management using AWS AI services	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Database performance monitoring and tuning with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Multiple approaches for protecting data in Amazon DynamoDB	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Fully Managed SaaS Data Integrations with Amazon AppFlow	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Don’t Create More Data Silos! Use CDC and Data Streaming	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	AWS for virtually every application	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Leveraging Rust for MLOps with the Amazon Sagemaker	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	Threat detection for Amazon Aurora databases with Amazon GuardDuty	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Enhanced threat detection for Amazon EKS with Amazon GuardDuty	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Deep Dive: PyTorch 2.0 on Graviton	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Accelerating modern app development by externalizing fine-grained authorization	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Easily upload and manage Amazon S3 files in a Next.js web app with AWS Amplify	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Why geospatial ML?	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	An introduction to performance measurement, analysis and optimisation on AWS EC2 Graviton-based instances	Level 400 - Expert
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building GenAI Experiences on Amazon SageMaker Ep 1	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Introducing Governed Analytics with Amazon DataZone	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Recent enhancements in Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: A journey from beginner to advanced ML builder with SageMaker Studio Lab	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building a Gen AI Comic Video Generator on Amazon SageMaker	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Enable cross-team, federated GraphQL APIs with AWS AppSync Merged APIs	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Get Answers From Data in Seconds with Amazon QuickSight Q	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Accelerated ETL for Amazon Redshift with AWS Glue	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Analytics in 15: Serverless Data Streaming Workloads with Amazon Kinesis	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Machine Learning in 15: Managing ML experiments	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Under the Hood with AWS Compute	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	AWS Heroes in 15: Managing ML Workflows In Production with Amazon SageMaker	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Best practices for building interactive applications with AWS Lambda	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Getting Started with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	What's new in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL?	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	CCI Real-time Call Analytics & Agent Assist solutions	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Fraud prevention and Bot control with AWS WAF	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Effortless migration - Is your app already Graviton-ready?	Level 300 - Advanced
On Demand	Accelerating SQL Server database modernization with Babelfish	Level 200 - Intermediate
On Demand	Reducing the costs of your openCypher applications	Level 300 - Advanced

 

AWS Events:

Date	Type	Event	Level
December 11, 2024	Virtual Event	AWS Financial Services Q4 Customer Meetup	All Levels

 

Latest AWS YouTube Channel Videos:

Date	Video
December 09, 2024	How Amazon is making its data centers even more sustainable | Amazon Web Services
December 06, 2024	AWS re:Invent 2024 - Andy Jassy shares his final thoughts from re:Invent | Amazon Web Services
December 06, 2024	AWS OnAir at re:Invent 2024 - Thursday
December 05, 2024	AWS OnAir at re:Invent 2024 Part 2 - Wednesday
December 05, 2024	AWS OnAir at re:Invent 2024 - Wednesday
December 05, 2024	How Software Providers Integrate with the Amazon Q Index | Amazon Web Services
December 05, 2024	AWS re:Invent 2024 - Andy Jassy shares his thoughts on Day 3 | Amazon Web Services
December 05, 2024	Buy with AWS: Get Started as a Seller | Amazon Web Services
December 04, 2024	Amazon Q Business Introduces Capability to Create Complex Workflow Automations | Amazon Web Services
December 04, 2024	Amazon Bedrock IDE demo in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio | Amazon Web Services
December 04, 2024	Luma AI's Ray 2 Video Model Coming Soon to Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services
December 04, 2024	Simplify In-Depth Data Analysis with Amazon Q in QuickSight | Amazon Web Services
December 04, 2024	Amazon Bedrock Data Automation Overview | Amazon Web Services
December 04, 2024	Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Task Governance | Amazon Web Services
December 04, 2024	AWS re:Invent 2024 - Andy Jassy Shares his Thoughts on Day 2 Announcements | Amazon Web Services