AWS News Blog
Author: Danilo Poccia
Danilo works with startups and companies of any size to support their innovation. In his role as Chief Evangelist (EMEA) at Amazon 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 – Use Amazon S3 Object Lambda with Amazon CloudFront to Tailor Content for End Users
With S3 Object Lambda, you can use your own code to process data retrieved from Amazon S3 as it is returned to an application. Over time, we added new capabilities to S3 Object Lambda, like the ability to add your own code to S3 HEAD and LIST API requests, in addition to the support for […]
How to Connect Business and Technology to Embrace Strategic Thinking (Book Review)
Book Review The Value Flywheel Effect: Power the Future and Accelerate Your Organization to the Modern Cloud by David Anderson with Mark McCann and Michael O’Reilly Recently, a new book came to my attention that explores the intersection of business, technology, and people. This is a great read for anyone who wants to understand how […]
New for Amazon Redshift – Simplify Data Ingestion and Make Your Data Warehouse More Secure and Reliable
When we talk with customers, we hear that they want to be able to harness insights from data in order to make timely, impactful, and actionable business decisions. A common pattern with data-driven organizations is that they have many different data sources they need to ingest into their analytics systems. This requires them to build […]
Introducing VPC Lattice – Simplify Networking for Service-to-Service Communication (Preview)
March 31, 2023 – Amazon VPC Lattice is now generally available with new capabilities. Modern applications are built using modular and distributed components. Each component is a service that implements its own subset of functionalities. To make these services communicate with each other, you need a way to let them discover where they are, authorize […]
New for Amazon 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, Amazon Redshift was launched. Over the years, many features have been added to improve performance and make it easier to use. Amazon Redshift now allows you to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes. More recently, Amazon 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 – Amazon 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 […]