My colleagues have spent months creating, reviewing, and improving the content for their upcoming AWS re:Invent sessions. While I do my best not to play favorites, I would like to tell you about one that recently caught my eye! Session ADM301 (Under the Hood at Amazon Ads) takes place on Tuesday, November 30th at 2 PM. In the session, my colleagues will introduce Amazon Ads, outline the challenges that come with building an advertising system at scale, and then show how they solved those challenges using multiple AWS services. I was able to review a near-final version of their presentation and this post is based on what I learned from that review. Amazon Ads uses an omnichannel strategy with four…
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Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021
Welcome to AWS re:Invent! From Nov. 29-Dec. 3, 2021, we’ll update this page daily with the most noteworthy launches from our biggest event of the year. AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr and our team of AWS developer advocates from around the globe share the news and offer helpful tips for getting started with all the latest AWS releases. More ways to learn: The Official AWS Podcast: For keynote recaps each day AWS OnAir: Livestreaming from the show floor What’s New: All 2021 AWS announcements (This post was last updated: 12:42 a.m., PST, Nov. 29, 2021.) Quick category links: Internet of Things | Security Internet of Things Preview – AWS IoT RoboRunner for Building Robot Fleet Management Applications AWS IoT RoboRunner is…
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Introduces Secrets Detector to Identify Hardcoded Secrets and Secure Them with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon CodeGuru helps you improve code quality and automate code reviews by scanning and profiling your Java and Python applications. CodeGuru Reviewer can detect potential defects and bugs in your code. For example, it suggests improvements regarding security vulnerabilities, resource leaks, concurrency issues, incorrect input validation, and deviation from AWS best practices. One of the most well-known security practices is the centralization and governance of secrets, such as passwords, API keys, and credentials in general. As many other developers facing a strict deadline, I’ve often taken shortcuts when managing and consuming secrets in my code, using plaintext environment variables or hard-coding static secrets during local development, and then inadvertently commit them. Of course, I’ve always regretted it and wished there…
Preview – AWS IoT RoboRunner for Building Robot Fleet Management Applications
In 2018, we launched AWS RoboMaker, a cloud-based simulation service that enables robotics developers to run, scale, and automate simulation without managing any infrastructure. As we worked with robot developers and operators, we have repeatedly heard that they face challenges in operating different robot types in their automation efforts, including autonomous guided vehicles (AGV), autonomous mobile vehicles (AMR), and robotic manipulators. Many customers choose different types of robots – often from different vendors in a single facility. Robot operator want to access the unified data required to build applications that work across a fleet of robots. However, when a new robot is added to an autonomous operation, complex and time-consuming software integration work is required to connect the robot control…