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  Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers automated pattern analytics and anomaly detection
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  Searching through log data to find operational or business insights often feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. It usually requires you to manually filter and review individual log records. To help you with that, Amazon CloudWatch has added new capabilities to automatically recognize and cluster patterns among log records, extract noteworthy content […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-logs-now-offers-automated-pattern-analytics-and-anomaly-detection/
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  Introducing Amazon CloudFront KeyValueStore: A low-latency datastore for CloudFront Functions
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  Amazon CloudFront allows you to securely deliver static and dynamic content with low latency and high transfer speeds. With CloudFront Functions, you can perform latency-sensitive customizations for millions of requests per second. For example, you can use CloudFront Functions to modify headers, normalize cache keys, rewrite URLs, or authorize requests. Today, we are introducing CloudFront […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-cloudfront-keyvaluestore-a-low-latency-datastore-for-cloudfront-functions/
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  AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023
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  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 […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-ec2-dl2q-instances-partyrock-amplifys-6th-birthday-and-more-november-20-2023/
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  Happy anniversary, Amazon CloudFront: 15 years of evolution and internet advancements
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  I can’t believe it’s been 15 years since Amazon CloudFront was launched! When Amazon S3 became available in 2006, developers loved the flexibility and started to build a new kind of globally distributed applications where storage was not a bottleneck. These applications needed to be performant, reliable, and cost-efficient for every user on the planet. […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/happy-anniversary-amazon-cloudfront-15-years-of-evolution-and-internet-advancements/
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  New – Long-Form voices for Amazon Polly
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  We are launching three new voices for Polly. Powered by a new long-form engine, the voices are natural and expressive, with appropriate pauses, emphasis, and tone. New Voices The new long-form voices are perfect for blog posts, news articles, training videos, and marketing content. The underlying Machine Learning model extracts meaning from the text, learning […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-long-form-voices-for-amazon-polly/
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  Build AI apps with PartyRock and Amazon Bedrock
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  If you are ready to learn more about Generative AI while having fun and building cool stuff, check out PartyRock.aws . You can experiment, learn all about prompt engineering, build mini-apps, and share them with your friends — all without writing any code or creating an AWS account. You can also start with an app […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/build-ai-apps-with-partyrock-and-amazon-bedrock/
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  New – Amazon EBS Snapshot Lock
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  You can now lock individual Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots in order to enforce better compliance with your data retention policies. Locked snapshots cannot be deleted until the lock is expired or released, giving you the power to keep critical backups safe from accidental or malicious deletion, including ransomware attacks. The Need for […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ebs-snapshot-lock/
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  New – Multi-account search in AWS Resource Explorer
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  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 […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-multi-account-search-in-aws-resource-explorer/
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  New – AWS Audit Manager now supports first third-party GRC integration
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  Auditing is a continuous and ongoing process, and every audit includes the collection of evidence. The evidence gathered helps confirm the state of resources and it’s used to demonstrate that the customer’s policies, procedures, and activities (controls), are in place, and that the control has been operational for a specified period of time. AWS Audit […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-audit-manager-now-supports-first-third-party-grc-integration/
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  AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables
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  Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog to allow automatic compaction of transactional tables in the Apache Iceberg format. This allows you to keep your transactional data lake tables always performant. Data lakes were initially designed primarily for storing vast amounts of raw, unstructured, or semi structured data at a […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-glue-data-catalog-now-supports-automatic-compaction-of-apache-iceberg-tables/
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  Meet the final cohort of AWS Heroes this year – November 2023
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  As 2023 comes to an end, we’re celebrating our final Heroes cohort launch of the year! These technical experts are passionate about helping their local communities build faster on AWS—they’re focused on sharing best practices, solving problems, and even more. We’re thrilled to have them join the AWS Heroes program, and recognizing them for their […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/meet-the-final-cohort-of-aws-heroes-this-year-november-2023/
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  Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model
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  Today, we’re announcing the availability of Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B large language model (LLM) on Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock becomes the first public cloud service to offer a fully managed API for Llama 2, Meta’s next-generation LLM. Now, organizations of all sizes can access Llama 2 Chat models on Amazon Bedrock […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-bedrock-now-provides-access-to-llama-2-chat-13b-model/
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  Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models
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  Cohere provides text generation and representation models powering business applications to generate text, summarize, search, cluster, classify, and utilize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Today, we’re announcing the availability of Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models on Amazon Bedrock. They’re joining the already available Cohere Command model. Amazon Bedrock is a fully […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-bedrock-now-provides-access-to-cohere-command-light-and-cohere-embed-english-and-multilingual-models/
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  AWS Weekly Roundup – CloudFront security dashboard, EBS snapshots improvements, and more – November 13, 2023
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  This week, it was really difficult to choose what to recap here because, as we’re getting closer to AWS re:Invent, service teams are delivering new capabilities at an incredible pace. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: Amazon Aurora – Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-cloudfront-security-dashboard-ebs-snapshots-improvements-and-more-november-13-2023/
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  New for Amazon SQS – Update the AWS SDK to reduce latency
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  With Amazon SQS, you can send and receive messages between software components at any scale. It was one of the first AWS services I used and as a Solutions Architect, I helped many customers take advantage of asynchronous communications using message queues. In fact, Amazon SQS has been generally available since July 2006 and, under […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-sqs-update-the-aws-sdk-to-reduce-latency/
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  New – Block Public Sharing of Amazon EBS Snapshots
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  You now have the ability to disable public sharing of new, and optionally existing, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots on a per-region, per-account basis. This provides you with another level of protection against accidental or inadvertent data leakage. EBS Snapshot Review You have had the power to create EBS snapshots since the launch […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-block-public-sharing-of-amazon-ebs-snapshots/
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  New for Amazon Comprehend – Toxicity Detection
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  With Amazon Comprehend, you can extract insights from text without being a machine learning expert. Using its built-in models, Comprehend can analyze the syntax of your input documents and find entities, events, key phrases, personally identifiable information (PII), and the overall sentiment or sentiments associated with specific entities (such as brands or products). Today, we […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-amazon-comprehend-toxicity-detection/
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  New – Manage Planned Lifecycle Events on AWS Health
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  We are announcing new features in AWS Health to help you manage planned lifecycle events for your AWS resources and dynamically track the completion of actions that your team takes at the resource-level to ensure continued smooth operations of your applications. Some examples of planned lifecycle events are an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-manage-planned-lifecycle-events-on-aws-health/
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  Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available
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  “Data is at the center of every application, process, and business decision,” wrote Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS, and I couldn’t agree more. A common pattern customers use today is to build data pipelines to move data from Amazon Aurora to Amazon Redshift. These solutions help them gain insights […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-aurora-mysql-zero-etl-integration-with-amazon-redshift-is-now-generally-available/
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  New – Create application-consistent snapshots using Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager and custom scripts
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  Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports the use of pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts embedded in AWS Systems Manager documents. You can use these scripts to ensure that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager are application-consistent. Scripts can pause and resume I/O operations, flush buffered data to EBS volumes, and […]
  
  https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-create-application-consistent-snapshots-using-amazon-data-lifecycle-manager-and-custom-scripts/