AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Parallel Computing Service, Amazon EC2 standing checks, and extra (September 2, 2024)

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With the arrival of September, AWS re:Invent 2024 is now 3 months away and I’m very excited for the brand new upcoming companies and bulletins on the convention. I keep in mind attending re:Invent 2019, simply earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the most important in-person re:Invent with 60,000+ attendees and it was my second one. It was wonderful to be in that environment! Registration is now open for AWS re:Invent 2024. Come be a part of us in Las Vegas for 5 thrilling days of keynotes, breakout periods, chalk talks, interactive studying alternatives, and career-changing connections!

Now let’s have a look at the final week’s new bulletins.

Final week’s launches
Listed below are the launches that obtained my consideration.

Saying AWS Parallel Computing Service – AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) is a brand new managed service that permits you to run and scale excessive efficiency computing (HPC) workloads on AWS. You possibly can construct scientific and engineering fashions and run simulations utilizing a totally managed Slurm scheduler with built-in technical assist and a wealthy set of customization choices. Tailor your HPC surroundings to your particular wants and combine it together with your most popular software program stack. Construct full HPC clusters that integrates compute, storage, networking, and visualization assets, and seamlessly scale from zero to hundreds of situations. To be taught extra, go to AWS Parallel Computing Service and skim Channy’s weblog put up.

Amazon EC2 standing checks now assist reachability well being of connected EBS volumes – Now you can use Amazon EC2 standing checks to immediately monitor if the Amazon EBS volumes connected to your situations are reachable and in a position to full I/O operations. With this new standing examine, you possibly can rapidly detect attachment points or quantity impairments that will affect the efficiency of your purposes operating on Amazon EC2 situations. You possibly can additional combine these standing checks inside Auto Scaling teams to watch the well being of EC2 situations and exchange impacted situations to make sure excessive availability and reliability of your purposes. Connected EBS standing checks can be utilized together with the occasion standing and system standing checks to watch the well being of your situations. To be taught extra, seek advice from the Standing checks for Amazon EC2 situations documentation.

Amazon QuickSight now helps sharing views of embedded dashboards – Now you can share views of embedded dashboards in Amazon QuickSight. This function permits you to allow extra collaborative capabilities in your utility with embedded QuickSight dashboards. Moreover, you possibly can allow personalization capabilities corresponding to bookmarks for nameless customers. You possibly can share a singular hyperlink that shows solely your adjustments whereas staying inside the utility, and use dashboard or console embedding to generate a shareable hyperlink to your utility web page with QuickSight’s reference encapsulated utilizing the QuickSight Embedding SDK. QuickSight Readers can then ship this shareable hyperlink to their friends. When their peer accesses the shared hyperlink, they’re taken to the web page on the appliance that comprises the embedded QuickSight dashboard. For extra data, seek advice from Embedded view documentation.

Amazon Q Enterprise launches IAM federation for consumer identification authenticationAmazon Q Enterprise is a totally managed service that deploys a generative AI enterprise skilled to your enterprise information. You need to use the Amazon Q Enterprise IAM federation function to attach your purposes on to your identification supplier to supply consumer identification and consumer attributes for these purposes. Beforehand, you needed to sync your consumer identification data out of your identification supplier into AWS IAM Identification Heart, after which join your Amazon Q Enterprise purposes to IAM Identification Heart for consumer authentication. At launch, Amazon Q Enterprise IAM federation will assist the OpenID Join (OIDC) and SAML2.0 protocols for identification supplier connectivity. To be taught extra, go to Amazon Q Enterprise documentation.

Amazon Bedrock now helps cross-Area inferenceAmazon Bedrock proclaims assist for cross-Area inference, an non-compulsory function that allows you to seamlessly handle visitors bursts by using compute throughout totally different AWS Areas. If you’re utilizing on-demand mode, you’ll be capable of get greater throughput limits (as much as 2x your allotted in-Area quotas) and enhanced resilience during times of peak demand through the use of cross-Area inference. By opting in, you not must spend effort and time predicting demand fluctuations. As a substitute, cross-Area inference dynamically routes visitors throughout a number of Areas, guaranteeing optimum availability for every request and smoother efficiency throughout high-usage durations. You possibly can management the place your inference information flows by deciding on from a pre-defined set of Areas, serving to you adjust to relevant information residency necessities and sovereignty legal guidelines. Discover the checklist at Supported Areas and fashions for cross-Area inference. To get began, seek advice from the Amazon Bedrock documentation or this Machine Studying weblog.

For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, remember to keep watch over the What’s New at AWS web page.

We launched present companies and occasion sorts in extra Areas:

Different AWS occasions
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Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendar and join upcoming AWS occasions:

AWS Summits are free on-line and in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. AWS Summits for this yr are coming to an finish. There are 3 extra left you could nonetheless register: Jakarta (September 5), Toronto (September 11), and Ottawa (October 9).

AWS Neighborhood Days function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by skilled AWS customers and trade leaders from world wide. Whereas AWS Summits 2024 are nearly over, AWS Neighborhood Days are in full swing. Upcoming AWS Neighborhood Days are in Belfast (September 6), SF Bay Space (September 13), the place our personal Antje Barth is a keynote speaker, Argentina (September 14), and Armenia (September 14).

Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions right here.

That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!

— Esra

This put up is a part of our Weekly Roundup collection. Verify again every week for a fast roundup of fascinating information and bulletins from AWS!

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