AWS Weekly Roundup — Savings Plans, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CodeArtifact, and more — March 25, 2024

AWS Summit season is starting! I’m happy I will meet our customers, partners, and the press next week at the AWS Summit Paris and the week after at the AWS Summit Amsterdam. I’ll show you how mobile application developers can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to boost their productivity. Be sure to stop by and say hi if you’re around. Now that my talks for the Summit are ready, I took the time to look back at the AWS launches from last week and write this summary for you. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS License Manager allows you to track IBM Db2 licenses on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) – I wrote…

Improve the security of your software supply chain with Amazon CodeArtifact package group configuration

Starting today, administrators of package repositories can manage the configuration of multiple packages in one single place with the new AWS CodeArtifact package group configuration capability. A package group allows you to define how packages are updated by internal developers or from upstream repositories. You can now allow or block internal developers to publish packages or allow or block upstream updates for a group of packages. CodeArtifact is a fully managed package repository service that makes it easy for organizations to securely store and share software packages used for application development. You can use CodeArtifact with popular build tools and package managers such as NuGet, Maven, Gradle, npm, yarn, pip, twine, and the Swift Package Manager. CodeArtifact supports on-demand importing…

AWS Weekly Roundup — Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock, AWS CloudFormation optimizations, and more — March 18, 2024

Storage, storage, storage! Last week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of fun! The 4-hour live stream was packed with puns, pie recipes powered by PartyRock, demos, code, and discussions about generative AI and Amazon S3. AWS Pi Day 2024 — Twitch live stream on March 14, 2024 In case you missed the live stream, you can watch the recording. We’ll also update the AWS Pi Day 2024 post on community.aws this week with show notes and session clips. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is now…

Run and manage open source InfluxDB databases with Amazon Timestream

Starting today, you can use InfluxDB as a database engine in Amazon Timestream. This support makes it easy for you to run near real-time time-series applications using InfluxDB and open source APIs, including open source Telegraf agents that collect time-series observations. Now you have two database engines to choose in Timestream: Timestream for LiveAnalytics and Timestream for InfluxDB. You should use the Timestream for InfluxDB engine if your use cases require near real-time time-series queries or specific features in InfluxDB, such as using Flux queries. Another option is the existing Timestream for LiveAnalytics engine, which is suitable if you need to ingest more than tens of gigabytes of time-series data per minute and run SQL queries on petabytes of time-series…