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Category: Launch

AWS Week in Review – January 23, 2023

Welcome to my first AWS Week in Review of 2023. As usual, it has been a busy week, so let’s dive right in: Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my eye last week: Amazon Connect – You can now deliver long lasting, persistent chat experiences for your customers, with the ability to […]

Amazon SageMaker Canvas

New – Bring ML Models Built Anywhere into Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Generate Predictions

Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides business analysts with a visual interface to solve business problems using machine learning (ML) without writing a single line of code. Since we introduced SageMaker Canvas in 2021, many users have asked us for an enhanced, seamless collaboration experience that enables data scientists to share trained models with their business analysts […]

Heads-Up: Amazon S3 Security Changes Are Coming in April of 2023

Update (4/27/2023): Amazon S3 now automatically enables S3 Block Public Access and disables S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets in all AWS Regions. Starting in April of 2023 we will be making two changes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to put our latest best practices for bucket security into […]

Introducing Amazon GameLift Anywhere – Run Your Game Servers on Your Own Infrastructure

In 2016, we launched Amazon GameLift, a dedicated hosting solution that securely deploys and automatically scales fleets of session-based multiplayer game servers to meet worldwide player demand. With Amazon GameLift, you can create and upload a game server build once, replicate, and then deploy across multiple AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones to reach your […]

Amazon CodeCatalyst

Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst, a Unified Software Development Service (Preview)

Today, we announced the preview release of Amazon CodeCatalyst. A unified software development and delivery service, Amazon CodeCatalyst enables software development teams to quickly and easily plan, develop, collaborate on, build, and deliver applications on AWS, reducing friction throughout the development lifecycle. In my time as a developer the biggest excitement—besides shipping software to users—was […]

AWS Step Functions Distributed Map

Step Functions Distributed Map – A Serverless Solution for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing

I am excited to announce the availability of a distributed map for AWS Step Functions. This flow extends support for orchestrating large-scale parallel workloads such as the on-demand processing of semi-structured data. Step Function’s map state executes the same processing steps for multiple entries in a dataset. The existing map state is limited to 40 […]

AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights

AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights – Simplify Third-Party Software Risk Assessments

Update 8 February 2023: I edited this blog post to remove the “preview” messaging for AWS Artifact third-party reports. —- AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights is a new capability of AWS Marketplace. It simplifies third-party software risk assessments when procuring solutions from the AWS Marketplace. It helps you to ensure that the third-party software continuously meets […]

Amazon SageMaker - Shadow Testing

New for Amazon SageMaker – Perform Shadow Tests to Compare Inference Performance Between ML Model Variants

As you move your machine learning (ML) workloads into production, you need to continuously monitor your deployed models and iterate when you observe a deviation in your model performance. When you build a new model, you typically start validating the model offline using historical inference request data. But this data sometimes fails to account for […]