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  Amazon GuardDuty Enhances Detection of EC2 Instance Credential Exfiltration
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  Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Informed by a multitude of public and AWS-generated data feeds and powered by machine learning, GuardDuty analyzes billions of events in pursuit of […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-guardduty-enhances-detection-of-ec2-instance-credential-exfiltration/
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  A New AWS Console Home Experience
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  If you are reading this blog, there is a high chance you frequently use the AWS Management Console. I taught AWS classes for years. During classes, students’ first hands-on experience with the AWS Cloud happened on the console, and I bet yours did too. Until today, the home page of the console showed your most […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/a-new-aws-console-home-experience/
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  New – Amazon EC2 Hpc6a Instance Optimized for High Performance Computing
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  High Performance Computing (HPC) allows scientists and engineers to solve complex, compute-intensive problems such as computational fluid dynamics (CFD), weather forecasting, and genomics. HPC applications typically require instances with high memory bandwidth, a low latency, high bandwidth network interconnect and access to a fast parallel file system. Many customers have turned to AWS to run […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-hpc6a-instance-optimized-for-high-performance-computing/
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  Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Adds IPv6 Networking
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  Starting today, you can deploy applications that use IPv6 address space on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Many of our customers are standardizing Kubernetes as their compute infrastructure platform for cloud and on-premises applications. Amazon EKS makes it easy to deploy containerized workloads. It provides highly available clusters and automates tasks such as patching, node […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-elastic-kubernetes-service-adds-ipv6-networking/
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  Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
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  The AWS Region in Jakarta, Indonesia, is now open and you can start using it today. The official name is Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and the API name is ap-southeast-3. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region is the tenth active AWS Region in Asia Pacific and mainland China along with Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Ningxia, Osaka, […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-asia-pacific-jakarta-region/
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  New – FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan for Up to 10 Years
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  Last AWS re:Invent 2020, we announced FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) that offers a more stable foundation than standard releases, as manufacturers deploy and later update devices in the field. FreeRTOS is an open source, real-time operating system for microcontrollers that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage. In […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-freertos-extended-maintenance-plan-for-up-to-10-years/
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  AWS re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS Community
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  The internet is an excellent resource for well-intentioned guidance and answers. However, it can sometimes be hard to tell if what you’re reading is, in fact, advice you should follow. Also, some users have a preference toward using a single, trusted online community rather than the open internet to provide them with reliable, vetted, and […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-repost-a-reimagined-qa-experience-for-the-aws-community/
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  New – Sustainability Pillar for AWS Well-Architected Framework
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  The AWS Well-Architected Framework has been helping AWS customers improve their cloud architectures since 2015. The framework consists of design principles, questions, and best practices across multiple pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization. Today we are introducing a new Sustainability Pillar to help organizations learn, measure, and improve their workloads using […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/sustainability-pillar-well-architected-framework/
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  Announcing General Availability of Construct Hub and AWS Cloud Development Kit Version 2
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  Today, I’m happy to announce that both the Construct Hub and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) version 2 are now generally available (GA). The AWS CDK is an open-source framework that simplifies working with cloud resources using familiar programming languages: C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, and Go (in developer preview). Within their applications, developers create […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-general-availability-of-construct-hub-and-aws-cloud-development-kit-version-2/
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  Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV
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  Last year at AWS re:Invent, Jeff Barr wrote about the exciting availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a new EC2 M1 Mac instance. The introduction of EC2 Mac instances brought the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. EC2 Mac instances […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/use-amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/
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  New – Site-to-Site Connectivity with AWS Direct Connect SiteLink
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  We are launching AWS Direct Connect SiteLink, a new capability of AWS Direct Connect that lets you create connections between your on-premises networks through the AWS global network backbone. Until today, when you needed direct connectivity between your data centers or branch offices, you had to rely on public internet or expensive and hard-to-deploy fixed […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-site-to-site-connectivity-with-aws-direct-connect-sitelink/
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  New – Enhanced Dead-letter Queue Management Experience for Amazon SQS Standard Queues
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  Hundreds of thousands of customers use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to build message-based applications to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless apps. When a message cannot be successfully processed by the queue consumer, you can configure SQS to store it in a dead-letter queue (DLQ). As a software developer or architect, you’d […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/enhanced-dlq-management-sqs/
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  Network Address Management and Auditing at Scale with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager
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  Managing, monitoring, and auditing IP address allocation for at-scale networks, as the growth in cloud workloads and connected devices continues at a rapid pace, is a complex, time-consuming, and potentially error-prone task. Traditionally, network administrators have resorted to using combinations of spreadsheets, home-grown tools, and scripts to track address assignments across multiple accounts, virtual private […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/network-address-management-and-auditing-at-scale-with-amazon-vpc-ip-address-manager/
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  New – Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer
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  If you are a member of your organization’s networking, cloud operations, or security teams, you are going to love this new feature. The new Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer helps you identify network configurations that lead to unintended network access. As you will see in a moment, it will point out ways that you can […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-vpc-network-access-analyzer/
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  AWS Shield Advanced Update – Automatic Application Layer DDoS Mitigation
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  In 2016, we launched AWS Shield, a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency without needing to contact AWS Support. There are two tiers of AWS Shield: Standard and Advanced. All AWS customers […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-shield-advanced-update-automatic-application-layer-ddos-mitigation/
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  New AWS Scholarship Program Helps Underrepresented and Underserved Students Prep for Careers in AI and ML
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  As a woman working in information technology (IT) for many years, it has always been close to my heart to challenge long-standing gender stereotypes and inspire more young learners to consider a career in tech. With artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) defining the future of technology, this future also depends on diverse representation. […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-scholarship-program-helps-underrepresented-and-underserved-students-prep-for-careers-in-ai-and-ml/
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  Now in Preview – Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, a Free Service to Learn and Experiment with ML
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  Our mission at AWS is to make machine learning (ML) more accessible. Through many conversations over the past years, I learned about barriers that many ML beginners face. Existing ML environments are often too complex for beginners, or too limited to support modern ML experimentation. Beginners want to quickly start learning and not worry about […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-in-preview-amazon-sagemaker-studio-lab-a-free-service-to-learn-and-experiment-with-ml/
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  Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender
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  Today, we’re pleased to announce Amazon SageMaker Inference Recommender — a brand-new Amazon SageMaker Studio capability that automates load testing and optimizes model performance across machine learning (ML) instances. Ultimately, it reduces the time it takes to get ML models from development to production and optimizes the costs associated with their operation. Until now, no […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-sagemaker-inference-recommender/
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  New – Introducing SageMaker Training Compiler
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  Today, we’re pleased to announce Amazon SageMaker Training Compiler, a new Amazon SageMaker capability that can accelerate the training of deep learning (DL) models by up to 50%. As DL models grow in complexity, so too does the time it can take to optimize and train them. For example, it can take 25,000 GPU-hours to […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-introducing-sagemaker-training-compiler/
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  New – Create and Manage EMR Clusters and Spark Jobs with Amazon SageMaker Studio
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  Today, we’re very excited to offer three new enhancements to our Amazon SageMaker Studio service. As of now, users of SageMaker Studio can create, terminate, manage, discover, and connect to Amazon EMR clusters running within a single AWS account and in shared accounts across an organization—all directly from SageMaker Studio. Furthermore, SageMaker Studio Notebook users […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-create-and-manage-emr-clusters-and-spark-jobs-with-amazon-sagemaker-studio/