New – Amazon EBS Snapshot Lock
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…
New – Multi-account search in AWS Resource Explorer
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…
New – AWS Audit Manager now supports first third-party GRC integration
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…
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables
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…
Meet the final cohort of AWS Heroes this year – November 2023
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…
Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model
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…
Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models
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…
AWS Weekly Roundup – CloudFront security dashboard, EBS snapshots improvements, and more – November 13, 2023
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.…
New for Amazon SQS – Update the AWS SDK to reduce latency
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,…
New – Block Public Sharing of Amazon EBS Snapshots
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…