Today, Amazon Location Service released 17 new and enhanced APIs that expand and improve capabilities for the Routes, Places, and Maps functionalities, creating a more cohesive and streamlined experience for developers. By introducing enhanced features and offering simplified migration, these updates make Amazon Location Service more accessible and useful for a wide range of applications. You can now access advanced route optimization, toll cost calculations, GPS traces snapping, and a variety of map styles with static and dynamic rendering options, and perform proximity-based search and predictive suggestions, with rich, detailed information on points of interest. At Amazon, the vast majority of our roadmaps are driven by customer feedback. Many customers building applications with Amazon Location Service have shared that they…
Month: November 2024
Introducing Express brokers for Amazon MSK to deliver high throughput and faster scaling for your Kafka clusters
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Express brokers, a new broker type for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). It’s designed to deliver up to three times more throughput per-broker, scale up to 20 times faster, and reduce recovery time by 90 percent as compared to Standard brokers running Apache Kafka. Express brokers come preconfigured with Kafka best practices by default, support Kafka APIs, and provide the same low latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes. Express brokers provide improved compute and storage elasticity for Kafka applications when using Amazon MSK provisioned clusters. Amazon MSK is a fully-managed AWS service that makes it easier for you…
Introducing the last cohort of AWS Heroes this year – November 2024
As we gear up ahead of AWS re:Invent 2024, we’re thrilled to announce our final cohort of new AWS Heroes! These individuals exemplify expertise and dedication to leveraging AWS technologies and sharing knowledge. Their contributions to the AWS community are greatly appreciated, and today we’re excited to celebrate them. Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan – Bengaluru, India Machine Learning Hero Ayyanar Jeyakrishnan is a Principal Engineer/Executive Director at Wells Fargo. He is a seasoned machine learning and cloud enthusiast with a strong focus on AWS technologies. Ayyanar’s expertise includes creating data platforms and architecting DevOps and MLOps solutions to streamline the deployment and management of machine learning models on AWS. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and frequently speaks at industry events…
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Redshift, Amazon CloudWatch, and more (Nov 4, 2024)
The spooky season has come and gone now. While there aren’t any Halloween-themed releases, AWS has celebrated it in big style by having a plethora of exciting releases last week! I think it’s safe to say that we have truly entered the ‘pre’ re:Invent stage as more and more interesting things are being released every week on the countdown to AWS re:Invent 2024. There is a lot to cover, so let me put my wizard hat on, open the big bag of treats, and dive into last week’s goodies! Something for developers There was no shortage of treats from AWS for developers this Halloween! AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit — AWS…