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Summer time has drawn to a detailed right here in Utrecht, the place I stay within the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Group Day 2025, hosted on the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The only-day occasion will convey collectively over 500 cloud practitioners from throughout the Netherlands, that includes 25 breakout classes throughout 5 technical tracks. The day will start with digital keynotes at 9:00 AM, adopted by parallel breakout classes targeted on sensible implementations of serverless architectures and container optimization methods, offering beneficial insights no matter expertise degree.
Final yr’s AWS Group Day Netherlands 2024 introduced collectively a various group of cloud practitioners, audio system, and AWS fans who contributed to creating the community-led convention a beneficial knowledge-sharing platform. When you’re planning to attend, be happy to seek out me there to debate AWS providers or share your cloud implementation experiences!
Let’s have a look at final week’s new bulletins.
Final week’s launches
AWS Rework assessments now consists of indifferent storage evaluation – AWS Rework has expanded its evaluation capabilities to research on-premises indifferent storage infrastructure, serving to clients decide migration complete price of possession (TCO). The evaluation now evaluates Storage Space Community (SAN), Community Connected Storage (NAS), file servers, object storage, and digital environments, offering migration suggestions to applicable AWS providers together with Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon FSx. The instrument delivers a complete TCO comparability between present and AWS environments, together with efficiency and price optimization suggestions. With storage accounting for as much as 45% of complete migration alternatives, this enhancement helps clients visualize varied AWS migration choices. AWS Rework evaluation is out there in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt) Areas.
Amazon Bedrock introduces International Cross-Area inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 – Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 mannequin in Amazon Bedrock now helps International cross-Area inference, permitting inference requests to path to any supported industrial AWS Area for processing. This enhancement optimizes out there assets and allows increased mannequin throughput by distributing site visitors throughout a number of Areas. Beforehand, you might choose cross-Area inference profiles tied to particular geographies (US, EU, or APAC). The brand new International cross-Area inference profile supplies extra flexibility for generative AI use circumstances that don’t require geography-specific processing, serving to handle unplanned site visitors bursts and improve mannequin throughput. For detailed implementation steerage, go to the Amazon Bedrock documentation.
Amazon Neptune Database provides Public Endpoints help – Amazon Neptune now helps Public Endpoints, enabling direct connections to Neptune databases from outdoors the VPC with out complicated networking configurations. This characteristic helps builders securely entry their graph databases from growth desktops with out requiring VPN connections or bastion hosts, whereas sustaining safety by means of IAM authentication, VPC safety teams, and encryption in transit. Public Endpoints could be enabled for Neptune clusters operating engine model 1.4.6 or above by means of the AWS Administration Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. The characteristic is out there at no extra price past commonplace Neptune pricing in all AWS Areas the place Neptune Database is obtainable. Implementation particulars can be found within the Amazon Neptune documentation.
ECS Exec now out there in AWS Administration Console – Amazon ECS now helps ECS Exec straight within the AWS Administration Console, enabling safe, interactive shell entry to operating containers with out requiring inbound ports or SSH key administration. Beforehand out there solely by means of API, CLI, or SDKs, this characteristic streamlines troubleshooting by permitting container entry straight from the console interface. You possibly can allow ECS Exec when creating or updating providers and standalone duties, then connect with containers by choosing “Join” on the duty particulars web page, which opens an interactive session by means of CloudShell. The console additionally shows the underlying AWS CLI command to be used in native terminals. This characteristic is out there in all AWS industrial Areas and documented within the ECS developer information.
Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS Consumer Notifications now typically out there – AWS Consumer Notifications now helps Organizational Notification Configurations, serving to AWS Organizations customers centrally configure and consider notifications throughout their group. Administration accounts or delegated directors can configure notifications for particular organizational models or all accounts in a corporation. The service helps configuring notifications for any supported Amazon EventBridge occasion, resembling console sign-ins with out MFA, with notifications showing within the admin’s Console Notifications Heart and AWS Console Cellular Software. Consumer Notifications helps as much as 5 delegated directors and is out there in all AWS Areas the place AWS Consumer Notifications is obtainable. For implementation particulars, go to the AWS Consumer Notifications person information.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, make sure to regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Examine your calendar and join upcoming AWS occasions.
AWS Summits – Be a part of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Zurich (September 11), Los Angeles (September 17), and Bogotá (October 9).
AWS re:Invent 2025 – Be a part of us in Las Vegas between December 1–5 as cloud pioneers collect from throughout the globe for the newest AWS improvements, peer-to-peer studying, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking alternatives. Don’t overlook to discover the occasion catalog.
AWS Group Days – Be a part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by skilled AWS customers and trade leaders from world wide: Baltic (September 10), Aotearoa (September 18), South Africa (September 20), Bolivia (September 20), Portugal (September 27).
Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions right here.
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