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Sébastien Stormacq

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.

Announcing on-demand data replication for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS

Update: December 19, 2023 – You can now send snapshots of your file systems to file systems in another AWS Region or AWS account. The text of this post has been updated to reflect the extra benefits unlocked by these two new capabilities. Today we’re adding to Amazon FSx for OpenZFS the capability to send […]

GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring

Detect runtime security threats in Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, new in Amazon GuardDuty

Today, we’re announcing Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring to help detect potential runtime security issues in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty combines machine learning (ML), anomaly detection, network monitoring, and malicious file discovery against various AWS data sources. When threats […]

Amazon Detective adds new capabilities to accelerate and improve your cloud security investigations

Today, Amazon Detective adds four new capabilities to help you save time and strengthen your security operations. First, Detective investigations for IAM help security analysts investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) objects, such as users and roles, for indicators of compromise (IoCs) to determine potential involvement in known tactics from the MITRE ATT&CK framework. […]

Increase collaboration and securely share cloud knowledge with AWS re:Post Private

Today we’re launching AWS re:Post Private, a fully managed knowledge service to accelerate cloud adoption, improve productivity, and drive innovation. re:Post Private allows organizations to increase collaboration and access knowledge resources built for your cloud community. It includes curated collections of technical content and training materials from AWS. The content is tailored specifically for your […]

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports automatic compaction of Apache Iceberg tables

Update November, 16 2023 — I added a link to the documentation with the exact IAM permissions required to use this capability. — Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog to allow automatic compaction of transactional tables in the Apache Iceberg format. This allows you to keep your transactional data […]

Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model

Update: November 29, 2023 — Today, we’re adding the Llama 2 70B model in Amazon Bedrock, in addition to the already available Llama 2 13B model. As its name implies, the Llama 2 70B model has been trained on larger datasets than the Llama 2 13B model. If you’re wondering when to use which model, […]

Bedrock Cohere Embed model

Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models

Cohere provides text generation and representation models powering business applications to generate text, summarize, search, cluster, classify, and utilize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Today, we’re announcing the availability of Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models on Amazon Bedrock. They’re joining the already available Cohere Command model. Amazon Bedrock is a fully […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup – CodeWhisperer, CodeCatalyst, RDS, Route53, and more – October 24, 2023

The entire AWS News Blog team is fully focused on writing posts to announce the new services and features during our annual customer conference in Las Vegas, AWS re:Invent! And while we prepare content for you to read, our services teams continue to innovate. Here is my summary of last week’s launches. Last week’s launches […]