AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more

Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news of the week Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integrations is now generally available and it comes with exciting new features. You are now able to configure zero-ETL integrations in your AWS CloudFormation templates, and you also now have the ability to set up multiple integrations from a source Amazon RDS for MySQL database with up to five Amazon Redshift warehouses. Lastly, you can now also apply data filters which determine…

Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, now generally available, enables near real-time analytics

Zero-ETL integrations help unify your data across applications and data sources for holistic insights and breaking data silos. They provide a fully managed, no-code, near real-time solution for making petabytes of transactional data available in Amazon Redshift within seconds of data being written into Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL. This eliminates the need to create your own ETL jobs simplifying data ingestion, reducing your operational overhead and potentially lowering your overall data processing costs. Last year, we announced the general availability of zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift for Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition as well as the availability in preview of Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, Amazon DynamoDB, and RDS for MySQL. I am happy to announce that Amazon RDS…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Business, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon WorkSpaces update, and more (Aug 5, 2024)

Summer is reaching its peak for some of us around the globe, and many are heading out to their favorite holiday destinations to enjoy some time off. I just came back from holidays myself and I couldn’t help thinking about the key role that artificial intelligence (AI) plays in our modern world to help us scale the operation of simple things like traveling. Passport and identity verifications were quick, and thanks to the new airport security system rolling out across the world, so were my bag checks. I watched my backpack with a smile as it rolled along the security check belt with my computer, tablet, and portable game consoles all nicely tucked inside without any fuss. If it wasn’t…

AWS Audit Manager extends generative AI best practices framework to Amazon SageMaker

Sometimes I hear from tech leads that they would like to improve visibility and governance over their generative artificial intelligence applications. How do you monitor and govern the usage and generation of data to address issues regarding security, resilience, privacy, and accuracy or to validate against best practices of responsible AI, among other things? Beyond simply taking these into account during the implementation phase, how do you maintain long-term observability and carry out compliance checks throughout the software’s lifecycle? Today, we are launching an update to the AWS Audit Manager generative AI best practice framework on AWS Audit Manager. This framework simplifies evidence collection and enables you to continually audit and monitor the compliance posture of your generative AI workloads…