In the last AWS Weekly Roundup, Channy reminded us on how life has ups and downs. It’s just how life is. But, that doesn’t mean that we should do it alone. Farouq Mousa, AWS Community Builder, is fighting brain cancer and Allen Helton, AWS Serverless Hero, his daughter is fighting leukemia. If you have a moment, please visit their campaign pages and give your support. Meanwhile, we’ve just finished a few AWS Summits in India, Korea and also Thailand. As always, I had so much fun working together at Developer Lounge with AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, and AWS User Group leaders. Here’s a photo from everyone here. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that caught my attention last…
Month: June 2024
Simplify risk and compliance assessments with the new common control library in AWS Audit Manager
With AWS Audit Manager, you can map your compliance requirements to AWS usage data and continually audit your AWS usage as part of your risk and compliance assessment. Today, Audit Manager introduces a common control library that provides common controls with predefined and pre-mapped AWS data sources. The common control library is based on extensive mapping and reviews conducted by AWS certified auditors, verifying that the appropriate data sources are identified for evidence collection. Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) teams can use the common control library to save time time when mapping enterprise controls into Audit Manager for evidence collection, reducing their dependence on information technology (IT) teams. Using the common control library, you can view the compliance requirements for…
Our brand-new cohort of AWS Heroes has arrived – June 2024
The vibrant AWS community is made up of millions of builders worldwide. Within this global audience, there are technical enthusiasts who are going above and beyond to solve problems and generously share their learnings and best practices to empower others—the AWS Heroes. These inspirational leaders make significant contributions, and the AWS Heroes program is our way of recognizing and highlighting their impactful efforts. Please join us in celebrating our newest group of AWS Heroes! Arshad Zackeriya – Wellington, New Zealand Community Hero Arshad Zackeriya is a Senior Engineer at Xero, specializing in empowering organizations to deliver software at high velocity. He is well-known in the community as “Zack,” and his expertise primarily centers around Amazon EKS and developer tools. Zack…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 U7i Instances, Bedrock Converse API, AWS World IPv6 Day and more (June 3, 2024)
Life is not always happy, there are difficult times. However, we can share our joys and sufferings with those we work with. The AWS Community is no exception. Jeff Barr introduced two members of the AWS community who are dealing with health issues. Farouq Mousa is an AWS Community Builder and fighting brain cancer. Allen Helton is an AWS Serverless Hero and his young daughter is fighting leukemia. Please donate to support Farauq and Olivia, Allen’s daughter to overcome their disease. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Amazon EC2 high memory U7i Instances – These instances with up to 32 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon…