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Summer time has drawn to an in depth right here in Utrecht, the place I dwell 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 centered on sensible implementations of serverless architectures and container optimization methods, offering precious 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 fanatics who contributed to creating the community-led convention a precious knowledge-sharing platform. When you’re planning to attend, be happy to search out me there to debate AWS providers or share your cloud implementation experiences!
Let’s take a look at final week’s new bulletins.
Final week’s launches
AWS Remodel assessments now consists of indifferent storage evaluation – AWS Remodel has expanded its evaluation capabilities to investigate on-premises indifferent storage infrastructure, serving to prospects decide migration complete value of possession (TCO). The evaluation now evaluates Storage Space Community (SAN), Community Hooked up Storage (NAS), file servers, object storage, and digital environments, offering migration suggestions to acceptable AWS providers together with Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon FSx. The device 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 prospects visualize varied AWS migration choices. AWS Remodel evaluation is accessible 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 obtainable sources and allows larger mannequin throughput by distributing visitors throughout a number of Areas. Beforehand, you could possibly 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 instances that don’t require geography-specific processing, serving to handle unplanned visitors bursts and improve mannequin throughput. For detailed implementation steering, 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 improvement desktops with out requiring VPN connections or bastion hosts, whereas sustaining safety by IAM authentication, VPC safety teams, and encryption in transit. Public Endpoints might be enabled for Neptune clusters working engine model 1.4.6 or above by the AWS Administration Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. The characteristic is accessible at no extra value past normal 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 obtainable in AWS Administration Console – Amazon ECS now helps ECS Exec immediately within the AWS Administration Console, enabling safe, interactive shell entry to working containers with out requiring inbound ports or SSH key administration. Beforehand obtainable solely by API, CLI, or SDKs, this characteristic streamlines troubleshooting by permitting container entry immediately from the console interface. You’ll be able to allow ECS Exec when creating or updating providers and standalone duties, then hook up with containers by deciding on “Join” on the duty particulars web page, which opens an interactive session by CloudShell. The console additionally shows the underlying AWS CLI command to be used in native terminals. This characteristic is accessible in all AWS industrial Areas and documented within the ECS developer information.
Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS Person Notifications now typically obtainable – AWS Person Notifications now helps Organizational Notification Configurations, serving to AWS Organizations customers centrally configure and look at 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, comparable to console sign-ins with out MFA, with notifications showing within the admin’s Console Notifications Heart and AWS Console Cellular Utility. Person Notifications helps as much as 5 delegated directors and is accessible in all AWS Areas the place AWS Person Notifications is obtainable. For implementation particulars, go to the AWS Person Notifications consumer information.
For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure you keep watch over the What’s New at AWS web page.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendar and join upcoming AWS occasions.
AWS Summits – Be part of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Zurich (September 11), Los Angeles (September 17), and Bogotá (October 9).
AWS re:Invent 2025 – Be 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 neglect to discover the occasion catalog.
AWS Group Days – Be part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable 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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