Weekly AWS Community Events and Highlights
Every week, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community hosts a variety of events designed to foster networking, learning, and growth among its members. These events provide a platform for individuals to connect, share knowledge, and grow collectively. Last week, significant events included the Dach AWS Community Day and the Peru User Group’s two-day conference, UGCONF & SERVERLESSDAY 2024.
At the Dach AWS Community Day, Viktoria Semaan delivered an impactful talk on creating meaningful content and building a strong personal brand. Meanwhile, Jeff Barr shared insights on creating one’s own luck at the Peru User Group event. For those interested in joining future events, you can explore the schedule of upcoming AWS Community Days here.
Last Week’s AWS Launches
Here are some notable AWS launches from last week that caught our attention:
Jamba 1.5 Family of Models by AI21 Labs on Amazon Bedrock
The Jamba 1.5 Large and 1.5 Mini models, now available in Amazon Bedrock, feature a 256k context window, making them suitable for complex tasks like lengthy document analysis. They support structured JSON output, function calling, and document processing, integrating seamlessly into enterprise workflows. For more details, visit the AI21 Labs in Amazon Bedrock page.
AWS Lambda Supports Amazon Linux 2023 Runtimes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 runtimes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, offering the latest language features including Python 3.12, Node.js 20, Java 21, .NET 8, and Ruby 3.3. These runtimes provide smaller deployment footprints, updated libraries, and a new package manager. You can also build and deploy functions as container images using the container base images.
Amazon SageMaker Studio Automatic Shutdown of Idle Applications
Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports the automatic shutdown of inactive JupyterLab and CodeEditor applications. This feature, available using Amazon SageMaker Distribution image v2.0 or newer, helps control costs by avoiding charges for unused instances. Administrators can set idle shutdown times at the domain or user profile levels, with optional user customization.
Amazon S3 Default Minimum Object Size for Lifecycle Transition Rules
Amazon S3 now implements a default 128 KB minimum object size for S3 Lifecycle transition rules, aiming to reduce transition costs for datasets with many small objects. Users can override this default and customize minimum object sizes. This change applies to new or modified configurations, while existing rules remain unchanged.
AWS Lake Formation Centralized Access Control for Amazon Redshift Data Sharing
AWS Lake Formation now offers centralized access control for Amazon Redshift data sharing in 11 additional regions. This update allows for granular permissions management, including table, column, and row-level access to shared Amazon Redshift data. It also supports tag-based access control and trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center.
Llama 3.2 Generative AI Models on Amazon Bedrock
The Llama 3.2 generative AI models, now available on Amazon Bedrock, include 90B and 11B parameter multimodal models for sophisticated reasoning tasks, and 3B and 1B text-only models for edge devices. These models support vision tasks, offer improved performance, and are designed for responsible AI innovation across various applications. They support a 128K context length and multilingual capabilities in eight languages.
Share AWS End User Messaging SMS Resources Across Multiple AWS Accounts
Using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), users can now share SMS resources like phone numbers, sender IDs, phone pools, and opt-out lists across multiple AWS accounts. Additionally, Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages through AWS End User Messaging, providing enhanced features like two-way messaging and granular permissions.
AWS Serverless Application Repository Supports AWS PrivateLink
The AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling direct connections from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without internet exposure. This enhances security by keeping communication within the AWS network and is available in all regions where the AWS Serverless Application Repository is offered.
Amazon SageMaker with MLflow Supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon SageMaker with MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure traffic routing, enabling secure data transfer from Amazon VPC to MLflow Tracking Servers within the AWS network. This feature is available in most AWS Regions and enhances security for machine learning (ML) and generative AI experimentation using MLflow.
Llama 3.2 Models in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
The Llama 3.2 models are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, offering various sizes from 1B to 90B parameters and supporting multimodal tasks, including image reasoning. These models are more efficient for AI workloads, with some models capable of fine-tuning. Learn more about these models here.
For a comprehensive list of AWS announcements, visit the What’s New at AWS page.
Other AWS News
Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items of interest:
Deploy Generative AI Agents in Your Contact Center
Learn how to deploy generative AI agents in your contact center for voice and chat using Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. This solution enables low-latency customer interactions and features conversation analytics, automated testing, and hallucination detection in a serverless architecture.
AWS WAF Threat Intelligence Features
AWS WAF now enhances bot protection for betting and gaming customers with new features like browser fingerprinting, automation detection, and ML models to identify coordinated bots. These tools help combat scraping, fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and cheating, safeguarding player experiences.
Migrating 3DES Keys from FIPS to Non-FIPS AWS CloudHSM Clusters
Learn how to securely migrate Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (3DES) keys from FIPS to non-FIPS AWS CloudHSM clusters using RSA-AES wrapping, without backups. This enables the use of new hsm2.medium instances with FIPS 140-3 Level 3 support, non-FIPS mode, increased key capacity, and mutual TLS (mTLS).
Upcoming AWS Events
Mark your calendars and sign up for these upcoming AWS events:
AWS Summits
Join free online and in-person events to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. These events offer technical sessions, demonstrations, and workshops delivered by experts. The next event is in Ottawa on October 9.
AWS Community Days
Participate in community-led conferences featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders. Upcoming AWS Community Days are scheduled for October 3 in the Netherlands and Romania, and October 5 in Jaipur, Mexico, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Panama.
AWS GenAI Lofts
These collaborative spaces and immersive experiences showcase AWS’s cloud and AI expertise, offering startups and developers hands-on access to AI products and services, exclusive sessions with industry leaders, and networking opportunities. Find a GenAI Loft location near you and don’t forget to register. The next event is the Gen AI Developer Day in San Francisco on October 15.
Explore all upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events.
Conclusion
That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup of AWS news and announcements! For more details on the latest AWS updates, visit the AWS Blog.
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