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Summer time has drawn to an in depth right here in Utrecht, the place I stay within the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Neighborhood Day 2025, hosted on the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The only-day occasion will carry collectively over 500 cloud practitioners from throughout the Netherlands, that includes 25 breakout periods throughout 5 technical tracks. The day will start with digital keynotes at 9:00 AM, adopted by parallel breakout periods centered on sensible implementations of serverless architectures and container optimization methods, offering invaluable insights no matter expertise stage.
Final yr’s AWS Neighborhood 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 invaluable knowledge-sharing platform. Should you’re planning to attend, be at liberty to seek out me there to debate AWS companies or share your cloud implementation experiences!
Let’s have a look at final week’s new bulletins.
Final week’s launches
AWS Rework assessments now consists of indifferent storage evaluation – AWS Rework 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 Connected Storage (NAS), file servers, object storage, and digital environments, offering migration suggestions to applicable AWS companies 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 value optimization suggestions. With storage accounting for as much as 45% of complete migration alternatives, this enhancement helps prospects visualize varied AWS migration choices. AWS Rework evaluation is accessible in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt) Areas.
Amazon Bedrock introduces World Cross-Area inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 – Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 mannequin in Amazon Bedrock now helps World cross-Area inference, permitting inference requests to path to any supported business AWS Area for processing. This enhancement optimizes obtainable assets and allows larger mannequin throughput by distributing visitors throughout a number of Areas. Beforehand, you can choose cross-Area inference profiles tied to particular geographies (US, EU, or APAC). The brand new World cross-Area inference profile offers 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 steerage, go to the Amazon Bedrock documentation.
Amazon Neptune Database provides Public Endpoints assist – Amazon Neptune now helps Public Endpoints, enabling direct connections to Neptune databases from outdoors the VPC with out advanced networking configurations. This function helps builders securely entry their graph databases from improvement desktops with out requiring VPN connections or bastion hosts, whereas sustaining safety via 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 via the AWS Administration Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. The function 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 instantly 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 via API, CLI, or SDKs, this function streamlines troubleshooting by permitting container entry instantly from the console interface. You may allow ECS Exec when creating or updating companies and standalone duties, then hook up with containers by choosing “Join” on the duty particulars web page, which opens an interactive session via CloudShell. The console additionally shows the underlying AWS CLI command to be used in native terminals. This function is accessible in all AWS business 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, corresponding to console sign-ins with out MFA, with notifications showing within the admin’s Console Notifications Heart and AWS Console Cell Software. 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 checklist of AWS bulletins, be 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 a part of free on-line and in-person occasions that carry the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Zurich (September 11), Los Angeles (September 17), and Bogotá (October 9).
AWS re:Invent 2025 – Be a 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 overlook to discover the occasion catalog.
AWS Neighborhood Days – Be a part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable AWS customers and trade leaders from all over the world: 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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