Tag: Sébastien Stormacq

I’m thrilled to announce macOS support in EC2 Image Builder. This new capability allows you to create and manage machine images for your macOS workloads in addition to the existing support for Windows and Linux. A golden image is a bootable disk image, also called an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), pre-installed with the operating system and all the tools required for your workloads. In the context of a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, your golden image most probably contains the specific version of your operating system (macOS) and all required development tools and libraries to build and test your applications (Xcode, Fastlane, and so on.) Developing and manually managing pipelines to build macOS golden images is time-consuming and…

Last week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how developers can use generative AI tools to speed up their design, analysis, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These events were held at the GenAI Lofts. These lofts are open until October 25 (London) and November 5 (Paris). They will be packed with events, conferences, workshops, and meetups. If you’re around, be sure to check the agenda (London, Paris). Our well-known AWS News blog co-author Veliswa did an amazing demo. She live-coded a Duolingo-like app from scratch, just using suggestions and reviews from Amazon Q Developer. Now, let’s turn to other exciting news in the AWS universe from last week. Last week’s launches Here…

Today, NICE DCV has a new name. So long NICE DCV, welcome Amazon DCV. Today, with the 2024.0 release, along with enhancements and bug fixes, NICE DCV is rebranded to Amazon DCV. The new name is now also used to consistently refer to the DCV protocol powering AWS managed services such as Amazon AppStream 2.0 and Amazon WorkSpaces. What is Amazon DCV Amazon DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol. It lets you securely deliver remote desktops and application streaming from any cloud or data center to any device, over varying network conditions. By using Amazon DCV with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), you can run graphics-intensive applications remotely on EC2 instances. You can then stream the results to…

Starting today, you can build applications on macOS with AWS CodeBuild. You can now build artifacts on managed Apple M2 machines that run on macOS 14 Sonoma. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Building, testing, signing, and distributing applications for Apple systems (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and macOS) requires the use of Xcode, which runs exclusively on macOS. When you build for Apple systems in the AWS Cloud, it is very likely you configured your continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to run on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. Since we launched Amazon EC2 Mac in 2020, I have spent a significant…