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Author: Sébastien Stormacq
Seb has been writing code since he first touched a Commodore 64 in the mid-eighties. He inspires builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. His interests are software architecture, developer tools and mobile computing. If you want to sell him something, be sure it has an API. Follow him on Twitter @sebsto.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Application Load Balancer IPv6, HAQM S3 pricing update, HAQM EC2 Flex instances, and more (May 20, 2024)
AWS Summit season is in full swing around the world, with last week’s events in Bengaluru, Berlin, and Seoul, where my blog colleague Channy delivered one of the keynotes. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: HAQM S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes – A customer reported […]
Stop the CNAME chain struggle: Simplified management with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall
Updated 2 May 2024: I removed the reference to Route53 Alias that was incorrectly referred as a chain Starting today, you can configure your DNS Firewall to automatically trust all domains in a resolution chain (such as aCNAMEor DNAMEchain). Let’s walk through this in nontechnical terms for those unfamiliar with DNS. Why use DNS Firewall? […]
Add your Ruby gems to AWS CodeArtifact
Updated 8 May 2024: I updated the command to collect RUBYGEMS_HOST to suppress the trailing / Ruby developers can now use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their gems. CodeArtifact integrates with standard developer tools like gem and bundler. Applications often use numerous packages to speed up development by providing reusable code for common […]
HAQM Titan Text Embeddings V2 now available in HAQM Bedrock, optimized for improving RAG
HAQM Titan foundation models (FMs) offer a comprehensive suite of pre-trained image, multimodal, and text models accessible through a fully managed API. They’re designed for a range of applications while adhering to responsible AI practices.
AWS Weekly Roundup — Savings Plans, HAQM DynamoDB, AWS CodeArtifact, and more — March 25, 2024
AWS Summit season is starting! I’m happy I will meet our customers, partners, and the press next week at the AWS Summit Paris and the week after at the AWS Summit Amsterdam. I’ll show you how mobile application developers can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to boost their productivity. Be sure to stop by and […]
Improve the security of your software supply chain with HAQM CodeArtifact package group configuration
Starting today, administrators of package repositories can manage the configuration of multiple packages in one single place with the new AWS CodeArtifact package group configuration capability. A package group allows you to define how packages are updated by internal developers or from upstream repositories. You can now allow or block internal developers to publish packages […]
AWS Pi Day 2024: Use your data to power generative AI
Updated 20 March: I added a phrase in the original text to mention that the AWS SDKs for Rust and Kotlin now support HAQM S3 Express One Zone. 1/9/2025: Updated first link to Pi Day page. Today is AWS Pi Day! Join us live on Twitch, starting at 1 PM Pacific time. On this day […]
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
You told us one of the primary reasons to adopt HAQM Web Services (AWS) is the broad choice of services we offer, enabling you to innovate, build, deploy, and monitor your workloads. AWS has continuously expanded its services to support virtually any cloud workload. It now offers over 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, […]