AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q, Amazon QuickSight, AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Bedrock, and extra (Might 6, 2024)

April has been full of new releases! Final week continued that pattern with many new releases supporting a wide range of domains similar to safety, analytics, devops, and plenty of extra, in addition to extra thrilling new capabilities inside generative AI.

Should you missed the AWS Summit London 2024, now you can watch the classes on demand, together with the keynote by Tanuja Randery, VP & Advertising and marketing Director, EMEA, and lots of the break-out classes which can proceed to be launched over the approaching weeks.

Final week’s launches
Listed below are a number of the highlights that caught my consideration this week:

Guide and automated rollback from any stage in AWS CodePipeline – Now you can rollback any stage, aside from Supply, to any beforehand identified good state in in the event you use a V2 pipeline in AWS CodePipeline. You may configure automated rollback which can use the supply modifications from the newest profitable pipeline execution within the case of failure, or you’ll be able to provoke a handbook rollback for any stage from the console, API or SDK and select which pipeline execution you need to use for the rollback.

AWS CodeArtifact now helps RubyGems – Ruby neighborhood, rejoice, now you can retailer your gems in AWS CodeArtifact! You may combine it with RubyGems.org, and CodeArtifact will mechanically fetch any gems requested by the consumer and retailer them regionally in your CodeArtifact repository. Meaning you could have a centralized place for each your first-party and public gems so builders can entry their dependencies from a single supply.

Amazon EventBridge Pipes now helps occasion supply by means of AWS PrivateLink – Now you can ship occasions to an Amazon EventBridge Pipes goal with out traversing the general public web by utilizing AWS PrivateLink. You may ballot for occasions in a non-public subnet in your Amazon Digital Personal Cloud (VPC) with out having to deploy any extra infrastructure to maintain your visitors personal.

Amazon Bedrock launches proceed. Now you can run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+. And Amazon Titan Textual content V2 is now optimized for bettering Retrieval-Augmented Era (RAG).

AWS Trusted Advisor – final yr we launched Trusted Advisor APIs enabling you to programmatically eat suggestions. A brand new API is on the market now that you need to use to exclude sources from suggestions.

Amazon EC2 – there have been two new nice launches this week for EC2 customers. Now you can mark your AMIs as “protected” to keep away from them being deregistered by chance. You may also now simply uncover your lively AMIs by merely describing them.

Amazon CodeCatalyst – now you can view your git commit historical past within the CodeCatalyst console.

Normal Availability
Many new providers and capabilities grew to become typically obtainable this week.

Amazon Q in QuickSight – Amazon Q has introduced generative BI to Amazon QuickSight providing you with the power to construct lovely dashboards mechanically just by utilizing pure language and it’s now typically obtainable. To get began, head to the Quicksight Pricing web page to discover all choices or begin a 30-day free trial which permits as much as 4 customers per QuickSight account to make use of all the brand new generative AI options.

Amazon Q Enterprise (GA) and Amazon Q Apps (Preview) – Additionally typically obtainable now’s Amazon Q Enterprise which we launched final yr at AWS re:Invent 2023 with the power to attach seamlessly with over 40 in style enterprise techniques, together with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), Gmail, and so many extra. This enables Amazon Q Enterprise to find out about your corporation so your workers can generate content material, clear up issues, and take actions which might be particular to your corporation.

We have now additionally launched help for customized plug-ins, so now you’ll be able to create your personal integrations with any third-party utility.

One other spotlight of this launch is the launch of Amazon Q Apps, which allows you to shortly generate an app out of your dialog with Amazon Q Enterprise, or by describing what you desire to it to generate for you. All guardrails from Amazon Q Enterprise apply, and it’s straightforward to share your apps with colleagues by means of an admin-managed library. Amazon Q Apps is in preview now.

Try Channy Yun’s submit for a deeper dive into Amazon Q Enterprise and Amazon Q Apps, which guides you thru these new options.

Amazon Q Developer – you’ll be able to use Q Developer to utterly change your developer stream. It has all of the capabilities of what was beforehand referred to as Amazon CodeWhisperer, similar to Q&A, diagnosing widespread errors, producing code together with assessments, and plenty of extra. Now it has expanded, so you need to use it to generate SQL, and construct information integration pipelines utilizing pure language. In preview, it could describe sources in your AWS account and show you how to retrieve and analyze price information from AWS Value Explorer.

For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, you should definitely keep watch over the ‘What’s New with AWS?‘ web page.

Different AWS information
Listed below are some extra initiatives, weblog posts, and information gadgets that you simply may discover attention-grabbing:

AWS open supply information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes about open supply initiatives, instruments, and occasions from the AWS Group.

Uncover Claude 3 – Should you’re a developer searching for supply to get began with Claude 3 them I like to recommend this nice submit from my colleague Haowen Huang: Mastering Amazon Bedrock with Claude 3: Developer’s Information with Demos.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join upcoming AWS occasions:

AWS Summits – Be a part of free on-line and in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Singapore (Might 7), Seoul (Might 16–17), Hong Kong (Might 22), Milan (Might 23), Stockholm (June 4), and Madrid (June 5).

AWS re:Inforce – Discover 2.5 days of immersive cloud safety studying within the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania.

AWS Group Days – Be a part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by skilled AWS customers and trade leaders from world wide: Turkey (Might 18), Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28).

GOTO EDA Day London – Be a part of us in London on Might 14 to find out about event-driven architectures (EDA) for constructing extremely scalable, fault tolerant, and extensible functions. This convention is organized by GOTO, AWS, and companions.

Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions and developer-focused occasions.

That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!

— Matheus Guimaraes

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