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AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon MWAA, EMR Studio, Generative AI, and More – August 14, 2023
While I enjoyed a few days off in California to get a dose of vitamin sea, a lot has happened in the AWS universe. Let’s take a look together! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.6 – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that you can use to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Apache Airflow version 2.6 introduces important security updates and bug fixes that enhance the security and reliability of your workflows. If you’re currently running Apache Airflow version 2.x, you can now seamlessly upgrade to version 2.6.3. Check out this AWS…
New — File Release for Amazon FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage with the scalability and high performance of the open-source Lustre file systems to support your Linux-based workloads. FSx for Lustre is for workloads where storage speed and throughput matter. This is because FSx for Lustre helps you avoid storage bottlenecks, increase utilization of compute resources, and decrease time to value for workloads that include artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC), financial modeling, and media processing. FSx for Lustre integrates natively with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), synchronizing changes in both directions with automatic import and export, so that you can access your Amazon S3 data lakes through a high-performance POSIX-compliant file system on demand. Today,…
Welcome to AWS Storage Day 2023
Welcome to the fifth annual AWS Storage Day! This virtual event is happening today starting at 9:00 AM Pacific Time (12:00 PM Eastern Time) and is available for you to watch on the AWS On Air Twitch channel. The first AWS Storage Day was hosted in 2019, and this event has grown into an innovation day that we look forward to delivering to you every year. In last year’s Storage Day post, I wrote about the constant innovations in AWS Storage aimed at helping you put your data to work while keeping it secure and protected. This year, Storage Day is focused on storage for AI/ML, data protection and resiliency, and the benefits of moving to the cloud. AWS Storage…