AWS Week in Review – October 24, 2022

Final week, we introduced plans to launch the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Area, which is able to grow to be our third AWS Area in Southeast Asia. This Area may have three Availability Zones and can give AWS prospects in Thailand the power to run workloads and retailer information that should stay in-country.

Within the Works – AWS Area in Thailand
With this large information, AWS introduced a 190 billion baht (US 5 billion ) funding to drive Thailand’s digital future over the following 15 years. It consists of capital expenditures on the development of information facilities, operational bills associated to ongoing utilities and facility prices, and the acquisition of products and providers from Regional companies.

Since we first opened an workplace in Bangkok in 2015, AWS has launched 10 Amazon CloudFront edge places, a extremely safe and programmable content material supply community (CDN) in Bangkok. In 2020, we launched AWS Outposts, a household of totally managed options delivering AWS infrastructure and providers to nearly any on-premises or edge location for a very constant hybrid expertise in Thailand. This yr, we additionally plan the upcoming launch of an AWS Native Zone in Bangkok, which is able to allow prospects to ship purposes that require single-digit millisecond latency to finish customers in Thailand.

Photograph courtesy of Conor McNamara, Managing Director, ASEAN at AWS

The brand new AWS Area in Thailand can be a part of our broader, multifaceted funding within the nation, overlaying our native workforce, companions, abilities, and the localization of providers, together with Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Join.

Many Thailand prospects have chosen AWS to run their workloads to speed up innovation, enhance agility, and drive value financial savings, corresponding to 2C2P, CP All Plc., Digital Economic system Promotion Company, Power Response Co. Ltd. (ENRES), PTT World Public Firm Restricted (PTT), Siam Cement Group (SCG), Sukhothai Thammathirat Open College, The Inventory Trade of Thailand, Papyrus Studio, and extra.

For instance, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, launched the story of Papyrus Studio, a big movie studio and one of many first prospects in Thailand.

“Buyer tales like Papyrus Studio encourage us at AWS. The cloud can enable a small firm to quickly scale and compete globally. It additionally offers new alternatives to create, innovate, and determine enterprise alternatives that simply aren’t attainable with standard infrastructure.”

For extra info on how you can allow AWS and get assist in Thailand, contact our AWS Thailand workforce.

Final Week’s Launches
My favourite information of final week was to launch darkish mode as a beta function within the AWS Administration Console. In Unified Settings, you may select between three settings for visible mode: Browser default, Mild, and Darkish. Browser default applies the default darkish or mild setting of the browser, darkish applies the brand new built-in darkish mode, and lightweight maintains the present appear and feel of the AWS console. Select your favourite!

Listed here are some launches that caught my eye for internet, cellular, and IoT utility builders:

New AWS Amplify Library for Swift – We announce the overall availability of Amplify Library for Swift (beforehand Amplify iOS). Builders can use Amplify Library for Swift through the Swift Package deal Supervisor to construct apps for iOS and macOS (presently in beta) platforms with Auth, Storage, Geo, and extra options.

The Amplify Library for Swift is open supply on GitHub, and we deeply recognize the suggestions we now have gotten from the group. To be taught extra, see Introducing the AWS Amplify Library for Swift within the AWS Entrance-Finish Internet & Cellular Weblog or Amplify Library for Swift documentation.

New Amazon IVS Chat SDKs – Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now offers SDKs for stream chat with assist for internet, Android, and iOS. The Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs assist frequent capabilities for chat room useful resource administration, sending and receiving messages, and managing chat room members.

Amazon IVS is a managed, live-video streaming service utilizing the printed SDKs or commonplace streaming software program corresponding to Open Broadcaster Software program (OBS). The service offers cross-platform participant SDKs for playback of Amazon IVS streams you could make low-latency reside video accessible to any viewer all over the world. Additionally, it gives Chat Shopper Messaging SDK. For extra info, see Getting Began with Amazon IVS Chat within the AWS documentation.

New AWS Parameters and Secrets and techniques Lambda Extension – That is new extension for AWS Lambda builders to retrieve parameters from AWS Programs Supervisor Parameter Retailer and secrets and techniques from AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor. Lambda perform builders can leverage this extension to enhance their utility efficiency because it decreases the latency and the price of retrieving parameters and secrets and techniques.

Beforehand, you needed to initialize both the core library of a service or the whole service SDK inside a Lambda perform for retrieving secrets and techniques and parameters. Now you may merely use the extension. To be taught extra, see AWS Programs Supervisor Parameter Retailer documentation and AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor documentation.

New FreeRTOS Lengthy Time period Help Model – We announce the second launch of FreeRTOS Lengthy Time period Help (LTS) – FreeRTOS 202210.00 LTS. FreeRTOS LTS gives a extra steady basis than commonplace releases as producers deploy and later replace gadgets within the discipline. This launch consists of new and upgraded libraries corresponding to AWS IoT Fleet Provisioning, Mobile LTE-M Interface, coreMQTT, and FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP.

All libraries included on this FreeRTOS LTS model will obtain safety and significant bug fixes till October 2024. With an LTS launch, you may proceed to take care of your present FreeRTOS code base and keep away from any potential disruptions ensuing from FreeRTOS model upgrades. To be taught extra, see the FreeRTOS announcement.

Right here is a few information on efficiency enchancment and rising capability:

As much as 10X Bettering Amazon Aurora Snapshot Exporting Velocity – Amazon Aurora MySQL-Appropriate Version for MySQL 5.7 and eight.zero now velocity as much as 10x quicker snapshot exports to Amazon S3. The efficiency enchancment is routinely utilized to all sorts of database snapshot exports, together with guide snapshots, automated system snapshots, and snapshots created by the AWS Backup service. For extra info, see Exporting DB cluster snapshot information to Amazon S3 within the Amazon Aurora documentation.

3X Growing Amazon RDS Learn Capability – Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL now helps 15 learn replicas per occasion, together with as much as 5 cross-Area learn replicas, delivering as much as 3x the earlier learn capability. For extra info, see Working with learn replicas within the Amazon RDS documentation.

2X Growing AWS Snowball Edge Compute Capability – The AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized machine doubled the compute capability as much as 104 vCPUs, doubled the reminiscence capability as much as 416GB RAM, and is now totally SSD with 28TB NVMe storage. The up to date machine is good once you want dense compute sources to run advanced workloads corresponding to machine studying inference or video analytics on the rugged, cellular edge corresponding to vans, plane or ships.  You may get began by ordering a Snowball Edge machine on the AWS Snow Household console.

2X Growing Amazon SQS FIFO Default Quota – Amazon Easy Queue Service (SQS) proclaims the rise of default quota as much as 6,000 transactions per second per API motion. It’s double the earlier three,000 throughput quota for a excessive throughput mode for FIFO (first in, first out) queues in all AWS Areas the place Amazon SQS FIFO queue is accessible. For an in depth breakdown of default throughput quotas per Area, see Quotas associated to messages within the Amazon SQS documentation.

For a full record of AWS bulletins, you’ll want to regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS Information
Listed here are another information gadgets that you could be discover fascinating:

22 New or Up to date Open Datasets on AWS – We launched 22 new or up to date datasets, together with Amazonia-1 imagery, Bitcoin and Ethereum information, and elevation information over the Arctic and Antarctica. The total record of publicly accessible datasets is on the Registry of Open Information on AWS and is now additionally discoverable on AWS Information Trade.

Sustainability with AWS Companions (ft. AWS On Air) – This episode covers a broad self-discipline of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) points throughout all areas, group varieties, and industries. AWS Sustainability & Local weather Tech offers a complete portfolio of AWS Companion options constructed on AWS that tackle local weather change occasions and the United Nation’s Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDG).

AWS Open Supply Information and Updates #131 – This text covers newest open-source tasks corresponding to Amazon EMR Toolkit for VS Code, a VS Code Extension to make it simpler to develop Spark jobs on EMR and AWS CDK For Discourse, pattern codes that demonstrates how you can create a full atmosphere for Discourse, and many others. Keep in mind to take a look at the Open supply at AWS hold updated with all our exercise in open supply by following us on @AWSOpen.

Upcoming AWS Occasions
Verify your calendars and join these AWS occasions:

AWS re:Invent 2022 Attendee Information – Browse re:Invent 2022 attendee guides, curated by AWS Heroes, AWS trade groups, and AWS Companions. Every information accommodates really useful periods, ideas and tips for constructing your agenda, and different helpful sources. Additionally, seat reservations for all periods at the moment are open for all re:Invent attendees. You may nonetheless register for AWS re:Invent both offline or on-line.

AWS AI/ML Innovation Day on October 25 – Be part of us for this yr’s AWS AI/ML Innovation Day, the place you’ll hear from Bratin Saha and different leaders within the discipline concerning the nice strides AI/ML has made prior to now and the guarantees awaiting us sooner or later.

AWS Container Day at Kubecon 2022 on October 25–28 – Come be part of us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, the place we’ll be internet hosting AWS Container Day That includes Kubernetes on October 25 and academic periods at our sales space on October 26–28. All through the occasion, our periods deal with safety, value optimization, GitOps/multi-cluster administration, hybrid and edge compute, and extra.

You may browse all upcoming in-person, and digital occasions.

That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for one more Week in Overview!

— Channy

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