AWS re:Invent 2023 favourite announcements - part 1

We are so excited about the AWS re:Invent 2023 announcements; there are plenty!

Here are our favourites from the first two days:

• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-console-to-code-preview-generate-console-actions/ - AWS Console-to-code automatically captures your actions and workflows and in few simple clicks, generates code for it. The suggested code uses GenAI capabilities following AWS guided best practices to help improve deployment and create reliable production workloads. Customers can generate these code snippets in their desired formats such as CloudFormation, CDK. Using this service, customers no longer have to make a choice between Console or Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-cloudformation-git-management-stacks/ - GitOps for CloudFormation, isn't that cool?
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/cost-optimization-hub/ - Cost Optimization Hub, a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that helps you consolidate and prioritize cost optimization recommendations across your AWS Organizations member accounts and AWS Regions, so that you can get the most out of your AWS spend.
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-codewhisperer-new-enhancements/ - Developers can now receive suggestions and completion in AWS CloudFormation (YAML, JSON), AWS CDK (TypeScript, Python), and HashiCorp Terraform (HCL).
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-lambda-functions-now-scale-12-times-faster-when-handling-high-volume-requests/ - AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-aurora-limitless-database/ - Announcing Amazon Aurora Limitless Database
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-q-expert-capabilities-aws-preview/ - Conversations with Amazon Q can help you use best practices to architect applications, explain source code and implement application functionality right in the IDE, upgrade application versions, and troubleshoot errors like network connectivity issues.
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/meta-llama-2-cohere-command-light-amazon-titan-fms-bedrock/ - Amazon Bedrock now supports fine-tuning for Meta Llama 2 and Cohere Command Light, along with Amazon Titan Text Lite and Amazon Titan Text Express FMs, so you can use labeled datasets to increase model accuracy for particular tasks.
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/feature-development-capability-amazon-q-preview-codecatalyst/ - With this new capability, developers can assign a CodeCatalyst issue to Amazon Q, and Q performs the heavy lifting of converting a human prompt to an actionable plan, then completes code changes and a pull request that is assigned to the requester. Q will then monitor any associated workflows and attempt to correct any issues. The user can preview code changes and merge the pull request. Development teams can utilize this new capability as an end-to-end, streamlined experience within Amazon CodeCatalyst, without having to enter the IDE.
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-storage-class/ -  S3 Express One Zone can improve data access speeds by 10x and reduce request costs by 50% compared to S3 Standard and scales to process millions of requests per minute for your most frequently accessed datasets.
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-dynamodb-zero-etl-integration-amazon-opensearch-service/ - AWS announces Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/aws-amazon-q-preview/ - AWS announces Amazon Q, a new generative AI–powered assistant that is specifically designed for work and can be tailored to your business to have conversations, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using the data and expertise found in your company’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems.

GenerativeAI is a huge topic, and yes, the image below is generated by Amazon Bedrock Titan Image Generator G1.

We are excited to see what else the conference is going to bring!

At this link, you can follow the news https://aws.amazon.com/new/

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