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Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview)
Amazon Data Firehose introduces a new capability that captures database changes and streams updates to a data lake or warehouse, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB, with automatic scaling and minimal impact on transaction performance.
AWS Weekly Roundup: 20 years of AWS News Blog, Express brokers for Amazon MSK, Windows Server 2025 images on EC2, and more (Nov 11, 2024)
Happy 20th Anniversary of the AWS News Blog! 🎉🥳🎊 On November 9, 2004, Jeff Barr published his first blog post. At the time, he started a personal blog site using TypePad. He wanted to speak to his readers with his personal voice, not the company or team. On April 29, 2014, we created a new […]
Introducing Express brokers for Amazon MSK to deliver high throughput and faster scaling for your Kafka clusters
With 3x throughput, 20x faster scaling, and 90% reduced recovery time, Express brokers deliver unmatched performance for Apache Kafka on AWS, streamlining operations while cutting infrastructure costs by 50%.
Unlock the potential of your supply chain data and gain actionable insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics
Uncover hidden insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics, powered by Amazon QuickSight, enabling custom reporting and data visualization for smarter supply chain management.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic workflows, Amazon Transcribe, AWS Lambda insights, and more (October 21, 2024)
Agentic workflows are quickly becoming a cornerstone of AI innovation, enabling intelligent systems to autonomously handle and refine complex tasks in a way that mirrors human problem-solving. Last week, we launched Serverless Agentic Workflows with Amazon Bedrock, a new short course developed in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI. This hands-on course, taught by […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s App, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, AWS Console, and more (Oct 14, 2024)
Last week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how developers can use generative AI tools to speed up their design, analysis, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These events were held at the GenAI Lofts. These lofts are open until October 25 (London) and November 5 (Paris). […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
AWS Community Days have been in full swing around the world. I am going to put the spotlight on AWS Community Day Argentina where Jeff Barr delivered the keynote, talks and shared his nuggets of wisdom with the community, including a fun story of how he once followed Bill Gates to a McDonald’s! I encourage […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more
Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news announcements of the week […]