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Celebrating Twenty Years of Insights: The AWS Information Weblog Turns Two Decades Old? On November 9, 2004, Jeff Bezos revealed. At that point, he started a personal blog on a privately hosted website. He yearned to converse directly with his audience in a personal tone, untainted by the institutional voice.
On April 29, 2014, we successfully launched a new webpage and seamlessly transferred all existing content onto it. With more than 4,300 entries on the AWS Information Weblog to date, an impressive 75% have been authored by Jeff himself.
Since its inception in December 2016, the AWS Information Weblog has expanded to include new writers; yet, our commitment to excellence remains unwaveringly consistent with the original Day One vision. What sets apart the AWS Information Blog is its unique approach, where bloggers gain early access to product features, embodying the principles of Buyer Obsession and Frugality by walking readers through rapid-fire tutorials on how customers can leverage these tools to save time.
I’m deeply grateful for Jeff’s transformative leadership over the past two decades, and I eagerly anticipate the opportunities that await us in the next 20 years.
Here are some launches that have caught my attention:
Categorical brokers represent a novel category of dealers specifically designed for Amazon MSK Provisioned, capable of delivering up to three times greater throughput per broker, scaling up to 20 times faster, and reducing restoration time by an astonishing 90% compared to traditional Apache Kafka brokers? Categorical brokers arrive pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, seamlessly supporting all Kafka APIs and delivering identical low-latency performance, allowing you to continue using existing consumer applications without modification.
With the release of Kinesis Consumer Library (KCL) 3.0, you can now reduce compute costs associated with processing streaming data by up to 33% compared to previous versions of KCL. The Knowledge Consolidation Layer (KCL) 3.0 incorporates a refined load balancing mechanism, dynamically monitoring the resource allocation of stream processing workers and intelligently redirecting workload from heavily utilized employees to idle ones. To truly excel, one must be willing to learn more.
We offer simplified and flexible access to Microsoft Windows Server 2022 with License Included (LI) through Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), empowering customers with a straightforward method to deploy the latest version of Windows Server. Running Windows Server 2025 on AWS enables clients to leverage the cloud provider’s robust security, scalability, and reliability features, along with the latest advancements in Windows Server technology. To learn more about running Windows Server 2025 on Amazon EC2, visit ?
Claude 3.5: Haiku’s pioneering AI model, Anthropic’s swift creation., Combining swift response opportunities with enhanced cognitive abilities, this technology is particularly well-suited for tasks demanding both speed and intellect. Innovative advancements propel Claude 3.5 Haiku’s abilities, ultimately exceeding those of Claude 3 Opus, a behemoth of Anthropic’s early technological prowess, across various intelligence metrics – including coding capabilities. To accelerate your learning, consider taking additional courses.
With Amazon Bedrock Immediate Administration, you’ll streamline prompt creation, testing, versioning, and sharing for seamless collaboration. We’ve introduced new options that offer expanded configurability for your prompts, streamlining the process of integrating them with our generative AI capabilities, including structured prompts and seamless API integration via Converse and InvokeModel APIs. To truly benefit from additional instruction, it’s essential to first understand what you want to achieve.
The generative engine is Amazon Polly’s most advanced text-to-speech (TTS) model, utilizing cutting-edge generative AI technology. Here are the six new, highly realistic, AI-generated female voices: Ayanda, with her distinct South African English accent; Léa, offering a touch of je ne sais quoi in French; Lucia, bringing a warm European Spanish flair; Lupe, with the vibrant rhythms of American Spanish; Mía, infusing conversations with a lively Mexican Spanish charm; and Vicki, lending a crisp, professional tone in German. This update adds 13 new voices and supports 9 languages, providing you with a broader range of highly expressive and captivating vocal options.
We are announcing the end-of-life milestones for Customary Support and Extended Support for legacy Elasticsearch versions and OpenSearch variants. Customary support ends on November 7, 2025, for legacy Elasticsearch versions up to 6.7, Elasticsearch versions 7.1 through 7.8, OpenSearch versions from 1.0 through 1.2, and OpenSearch versions 2.3 through 2.9. With Extended Support, you can opt for a flat fee, with an incremental charge beyond standard pricing, providing essential security updates even after the end of traditional support has expired? To truly master new skills, one must be willing to learn.
Discover these fascinating facts and learn something new today:
AWS CEO Matt Garman recently visited one of our cutting-edge Amazon Web Services (AWS) knowledge centers, where he witnessed firsthand the relentless pursuit of innovation by our dedicated team. In a surprising yet unsurprising move, Amazon’s senior executives regularly visit its fulfillment centers, customer service hubs, and training facilities to roll up their sleeves and get hands-on with customer-facing tasks. AWS knowledge facilities are engineered to provide optimal reliability, performance, and availability on both sides of the globe, ensuring maximum resilience, efficiency, and overall effectiveness.
AWS empowers small businesses, fosters job creation, drives sustainability initiatives, and cultivates educational programs near AWS innovation hubs. What’s driving innovation at Amazon? Learn about our company culture, history, and mission to be Earth’s most customer-centric company.
I am seeking to leverage code transformations in order to upgrade to the Java 17 paradigm. By adopting the latest Java framework, the company was able to eliminate the need for approximately 4,500 developers’ worth of manual labor, resulting in a significant cost savings of $260 million annually.
Right here is . Amazon developed an internal chatbot using Amazon Q Enterprise, which has successfully resolved more than one million internal developer queries, thereby reducing the time spent by developers searching for answers in handbooks by over 450,000 hours.
We successfully implemented Amazon QuickSight Enterprise on board, integrating hundreds of thousands of internal documents and seamlessly embedding it within the tools our team relies on daily. Now, as an alternative of ready hours for responses to advanced technical questions on Q&A boards or Slack channels, builders can get solutions in seconds.
When golf enthusiasts derive joy from the sport, they may find this information particularly interesting and relevant. The PGA Tour’s official statistics platform debuted in Japan, leveraging the ShotLink system powered by Vantage Sports to collect and disseminate advanced data and foster a deeper understanding of the game. For the first time, the PGA TOUR is able to bring this technology to Asia, utilizing the flexibility and scalability of AWS to overcome unique challenges.
The company has undergone a comprehensive overhaul of its scoring system, migrating to a state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure over the past two years. Regardless of whether information originates from cutting-edge radar systems, sophisticated cameras, or traditional handbooks, the AWS cloud architecture seamlessly integrates and processes all inputs.
Explore our calendars and join us at these upcoming AWS events.
– These platforms foster more than just technology; they bring together startups, builders, buyers, and trade consultants to form a collective force. Whether seeking profound understanding or querying executives, our GenAI Lofts are perfectly aligned to support everything needed to kick-start the next innovation endeavour. Participate in events between November 20th and November 25th.
Join community-driven conferences featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by experienced AWS customers and industry experts from around the globe on November 23rd and December 14th.
Will you still have the opportunity to attend the annual learning event taking place from December 2-6 in Las Vegas. Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon, surprisingly took part in AWS re:Invent this year. As always, our primary goal is to create a learning environment where clients can extract valuable insights and apply them to transform their own customer experiences and services? We’re planning to surprise our attendees with an array of exciting prizes, the details of which we’ll unveil soon. We’re confident that these special treats will bring joy to those who join us at the event. See you then!
That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!
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