AWS Week in Review – August 8, 2022

As an ex-.NET developer, and now Developer Advocate for .NET at AWS, I’m excited to carry you this week’s Week in Evaluation publish, for causes that may shortly change into obvious! There are a number of updates, buyer tales, and occasions I wish to carry to your consideration, so let’s dive straight in!

Final Week’s launches
.NET builders, listed below are two new updates to pay attention to—and make sure you try the occasions part beneath for one more massive announcement:

Tiered pricing for AWS Lambda will curiosity clients operating massive workloads on Lambda. The tiers, based mostly on compute period (measured in GB-seconds), make it easier to save on month-to-month prices—routinely. Discover out extra in regards to the new tiers, and see some labored examples exhibiting simply how they can assist scale back prices, on this AWS Compute Weblog publish by Heeki Park, a Principal Options Architect for Serverless.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) launched updates for a number of widespread database engines:

• RDS for Oracle now helps the April 2022 patch.
• RDS for PostgreSQL now helps new minor variations. Apart from the model upgrades, there are additionally updates for the PostgreSQL extensions pglogical, pg_hint_plan, and hll.
• RDS for MySQL can now implement SSL/TLS for shopper connections to your databases to assist improve transport layer safety. You may implement SSL/TLS by merely enabling the require_secure_transport parameter (disabled by default) by way of the Amazon RDS Administration console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS Instruments for PowerShell, or utilizing the API. Whenever you allow this parameter, shoppers will solely be capable to join if an encrypted connection could be established.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) expanded availability of the most recent era storage-optimized Is4gen and Im4gn cases to the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) Areas. Constructed on the AWS Nitro System and powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, these occasion varieties function as much as 30 TB of storage utilizing the brand new custom-designed AWS Nitro System SSDs. They’re very best for maximizing the storage efficiency of I/O intensive workloads that repeatedly learn and write from the SSDs in a sustained method, for instance SQL/NoSQL databases, engines like google, distributed file techniques, and information analytics.

Lastly, there’s a brand new URL from AWS Assist API to make use of when it’s essential to entry the AWS Assist Heart console. I like to recommend bookmarking the brand new URL, https://help.console.aws.amazon.com/, which the group constructed utilizing the most recent architectural requirements for top availability and Area redundancy to make sure you’re all the time capable of contact AWS Assist by way of the console.

For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure you control the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS Information
Right here’s another information objects and buyer tales that you could be discover attention-grabbing:

AWS Open Supply Information and Updates – Compensate for all the most recent open-source initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS group in installment #123 of the weekly open supply publication.

In a single current AWS on Air livestream phase from AWS re:MARS, discussing the growing scale of machine studying (ML) fashions, our friends talked about billion-parameter ML fashions which fairly intrigued me. As an ex-developer, my psychological mannequin of parameters is a handful of values, if that, equipped to strategies or features—not billions. After all, I’ve since discovered they’re not the identical factor! As I proceed my very own ML studying journey I used to be notably concerned about studying this Amazon Science weblog on 20B-parameter Alexa Instructor Fashions (AlexaTM). These large-scale multilingual language fashions can be taught new ideas and switch information from one language or activity to a different with minimal human enter, given only some examples of a activity in a brand new language.

When creating video games supposed to run absolutely within the cloud, what advantages may there be in going absolutely cloud-native and shifting your entire course of into the cloud? Discover out on this buyer story from Return Leisure, who did simply that to construct a cloud-native gaming infrastructure in just a few months, lowering time and value with AWS companies.

Upcoming occasions
Verify your calendar and join these on-line and in-person AWS occasions:

AWS Storage Day: On August 10, tune into this digital occasion on twitch.television/aws, 9:00 AM–four.30 PM PT, the place we’ll be diving into constructing information resiliency into your group, and how one can put information to work to achieve insights and understand its potential, whereas additionally optimizing your storage prices. Register for the occasion right here.

AWS World Summits: These free occasions carry the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Registration is open for the next AWS Summits in August:

• AWS Summit Anaheim, August 18, at Anaheim Conference Heart, Anaheim, California, USA.
• AWS Summit Chicago, August 25, at McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• AWS Summit Canberra, August 31, on the Nationwide Conference Heart, Canberra, Australia.

AWS .NET Enterprise Developer Days 2022 – North America: Registration for this free, 2-day, in-person occasion and follow-up 2-day digital occasion opened this previous week. The in-person occasion runs September 7–eight, on the Palmer Occasions Heart in Austin, Texas. The digital occasion runs September 13–14. AWS .NET Enterprise Developer Days (.NET EDD) runs as a mini-conference throughout the DeveloperWeek Cloud convention (additionally in-person and digital). Anybody registering for .NET EDD is eligible for a free go to DeveloperWeek Cloud, and vice versa! I’m tremendous excited to be serving to manage this third .NET occasion from AWS, our first that has an in-person model. In the event you’re a .NET developer working with AWS, I encourage you to test it out!

That’s all for this week. Make sure to examine again subsequent Monday for one more Week in Evaluation roundup!

— Steve

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