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Author: Danilo Poccia
Danilo works with startups and companies of any size to support their innovation. In his role as Chief Evangelist (EMEA) at HAQM Web Services, he leverages his experience to help people bring their ideas to life, focusing on serverless architectures and event-driven programming, and on the technical and business impact of machine learning and edge computing. He is the author of AWS Lambda in Action from Manning.
New for HAQM Redshift – General Availability of Streaming Ingestion for Kinesis Data Streams and Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Ten years ago, just a few months after I joined AWS, HAQM Redshift was launched. Over the years, many features have been added to improve performance and make it easier to use. HAQM Redshift now allows you to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes. More recently, HAQM Redshift […]
New – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance
February 26, 2024 – Post updated to link to a sample CloudFormation hook in the AWS CloudFormation GitHub Repository. January 12, 2023 – Post updated with the current regional availability. When operating a business, you have to find the right balance between speed and control for your cloud operations. On one side, you want to […]
New for AWS Control Tower – Comprehensive Controls Management (Preview)
Today, customers in regulated industries face the challenge of defining and enforcing controls needed to meet compliance and security requirements while empowering engineers to make their design choices. In addition to addressing risk, reliability, performance, and resiliency requirements, organizations may also need to comply with frameworks and standards such as PCI DSS and NIST 800-53. […]
New – HAQM CloudWatch Cross-Account Observability
Deploying applications using multiple AWS accounts is a good practice to establish security and billing boundaries between teams and reduce the impact of operational events. When you adopt a multi-account strategy, you have to analyze telemetry data that is scattered across several accounts. To give you the flexibility to monitor all the components of your […]
New – HAQM Redshift Support in AWS Backup
With HAQM Redshift, you can analyze data in the cloud at any scale. HAQM Redshift offers native data protection capabilities to protect your data using automatic and manual snapshots. This works great by itself, but when you’re using other AWS services, you have to configure more than one tool to manage your data protection policies. […]
New for AWS Backup – Protect and Restore Your CloudFormation Stacks
To define the data protection policy of an application, you have to look at its components and find which ones store data that needs to be protected. Those are the stateful components of your application, such as databases and file systems. Other components don’t store data but need to be restored as well in case […]
New for HAQM Transcribe – Real-Time Analytics During Live Calls
The experience customers have when interacting with a contact center can have a profound impact on them. For this reason, we launched HAQM Transcribe Call Analytics last year to help you analyze customer call recordings and get insights into issues and trends related to customer satisfaction and agent performance. To assist agents in resolving live […]
AWS Week in Review – November 21, 2022
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! A new week starts, and the News Blog team is getting ready for AWS re:Invent! Many of us will be there next week and it would be great to meet […]