Happy New Year! AWS Week in Review – January 9, 2023

Happy New Year! As we kick off 2023, I wanted to take a moment to remind you of some 2023 predictions by AWS leaders for you to help prepare for the new year. Five Tech Predictions for 2023 and Beyond by Dr. Wener Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com – Read how these technologies and trends will converge to help solve some of the hardest human problems. Six Security Predictions in 2023 and Beyond by CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Web Services – Learn about what we think is next for the security industry and some high-level pointers on how you can stay ahead. You can also read the nine best things Amazon announced and AWS for Automotive at the Consumer Electronics…

Introducing Amazon GameLift Anywhere – Run Your Game Servers on Your Own Infrastructure

In 2016, we launched Amazon GameLift, a dedicated hosting solution that securely deploys and automatically scales fleets of session-based multiplayer game servers to meet worldwide player demand. With Amazon GameLift, you can create and upload a game server build once, replicate, and then deploy across multiple AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones to reach your players with low-latency experiences across the world. GameLift also includes standalone features for low-cost game fleets with GameLift FleetIQ and player matchmaking with GameLift FlexMatch. Game developers asked us to reduce the wait time to deploy a candidate server build to the cloud each time they needed to test and iterate their game during the development phase. In addition, our customers told us that they…

New – Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS

PostgreSQL has become the preferred open-source relational database for many enterprises and start-ups with its extensible design for developers. One of the reasons developers use PostgreSQL is it allows them to add database functionality by building extensions with their preferred programming languages. You can already install and use PostgreSQL extensions in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service for PostgreSQL. We support more than 85 PostgreSQL extensions in Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, such as the pgAudit extension for logging your database activity. While many workloads use these extensions, we heard our customers asking for flexibility to build and run the extensions of their choosing for their PostgreSQL database instances. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Trusted…

Preview: Use Amazon SageMaker to Build, Train, and Deploy ML Models Using Geospatial Data

You use map apps every day to find your favorite restaurant or travel the fastest route using geospatial data. There are two types of geospatial data: vector data that uses two-dimensional geometries such as a building location (points), roads (lines), or land boundary (polygons), and raster data such as satellite and aerial images. Last year, we introduced Amazon Location Service, which makes it easy for developers to add location functionality to their applications. With Amazon Location Service, you can visualize a map, search points of interest, optimize delivery routes, track assets, and use geofencing to detect entry and exit events in your defined geographical boundary. However, if you want to make predictions from geospatial data using machine learning (ML), there…