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#AWS #reInvent2024 is here. Come join Tim Honychurch and I for an exciting session on new governance capabilities. We’ll dive into two impactful policies – Declarative policies, debuting at re:Invent, and Resource control policies. You will learn how to define and enforce configuration using Declarative policies and the significance of Resource control policies. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬:   💡 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: COP378 New governance capabilities for multi-account environments  📅  𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞 & 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: Tuesday, December 3, 2024, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM   📍 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Caesars Forum | Level 1 | Summit 232 #reInvent #AWSOrganizations #EC2 #CloudGovernance #Security

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In the Dev world, automation is the backbone of maintaining consistency and reducing manual errors. GitLab’s latest whitepaper touches on this and explores the critical role of standardization in building a modern DevSecOps platform. https://bit.ly/3z7MWTi

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AWS announced the launching of RDS rightsize engine. Did anyone had a chance to review this? This is a long awaited feature that could bring a lot of value to customers in optimizing RDS costs, which tend to be significant for many organizations. Although not specifically mentioned in the article, I understand that recommendations will not be generated for instances covered with RI, which I find (very) odd IMHO. Did anyone had a chance to check this? #AWS great 1st step, looking forward to including Aurora in this engine, and more importantly provide a way to control RDS RI coverage, any way - convertible, SPs, marketplace. This would truly be a great holistic view to follow optimization best practice - rightsize than cover (then go do real FinOps). Great kudos to #FinOpsX for creating the stage for #FinOps announcements! https://lnkd.in/gNMSf-wk

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Want to learn how to enable your team to have more time to spend on #velocity versus frustrating operational tasks - without compromising #customerexperience while reducing the cost of your #operations? Join @ayeletsachto at DASH on June 25th where she'll share learnings from our two-year program, which reduced the cost of Google Kubernetes Engine Operations as our fleet increased without compromising the #reliability of our systems! #SRE

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With the EKS Auto Mode, you can automate cluster management. It selects optimal compute instances, dynamically scales resources, optimizes costs, manages core add-ons, patches operating systems, and integrates with AWS security services.

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Alphabet Inc. just posted its Q2 results and outlook for the remainder of the year. There is a lot to unpack here, and I think that my colleagues will have their own assessments. So, I will keep my comments specific to the Google Cloud division which aligns with my areas of research. If you want to hear or see more about other parts of the business please check out Anshel Sag, Matthew Kimball and Patrick Moorhead . POSITIVES 1) Financially, Google Cloud hit two major milestones $10B in quarterly revenue and $1.2 B in profit contribution. That's a bit north of 20% of total revenue for the quarter. 2) AI is a driver for Cloud with the majority of it's top 100 customers using AI capabilities. There was also a mention of over 2M developers using Google AI 3) Despite a strong emphasis on its own Gemini models, Google is continuing to expand its offers through partnerships with other AI and enterprise players. OPEN QUESTIONS 1) Spending looks to remaining flattish in terms of Head Count and CAP/EX. It seems like there may be some lag in terms of the market catching up to what has been an aggressive build up the past few years. However, it might also be a sign that new technology (chips and models) is more efficient. 2) When asked about areas of fastest AI growth and slower AI growth. CEO Sundar Pichai indicated that search and consumers had faster growth. And enterprise use was slower. Since Alphabet serves both areas that's good. But, it does beg the question about what we may hear from other enterprise only vendors. We shall see.

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🚀 Exciting news in the Rust and AWS communities! 🚀 On June 8th, Werner Vogels announced **distill CLI**, an efficient, Rust-powered tool for media summarization. 📜🔧 Check out his blog for more details: [Introducing Distill CLI](https://lnkd.in/dfUT4cmf) Notably, companies like Discord and Figma have achieved remarkable performance improvements by adopting Rust. Discord moved their Read States service from Go to Rust, resulting in a 10x speed increase and nearly 100x reduction in worst tail latencies. Similarly, Figma rewrote performance-sensitive parts of their multiplayer service in Rust, seeing a 6x reduction in peak average CPU usage per machine. 🌟💪 AWS is also embracing Rust with the general availability of Cargo support in CodeArtifact, enabling the storage of Rust libraries (crates) in CodeArtifact. 📦✨ More info: [AWS CodeArtifact and Cargo Support](https://lnkd.in/dYY_fgtU) As more customers leverage Rust for their critical workloads, AWS is providing robust building blocks. AWS Lambda, for instance, can now process HTTP events more efficiently with Rust. 🚀⚡️ Learn more here: [Rust HTTP Events in AWS Lambda](https://lnkd.in/diubf8bM) #RustLang #AWS #Serverless #Performance #CloudComputing #Innovation #TechNews #CodeArtifact #DistillCLI

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Here's a practical example of how Formal Methods can make code faster: AWS's new proven-correct authorization engine is 65% faster (even at p99.9) than the previous version. https://lnkd.in/gVCdurKh Sean says in the talk "we wouldn't have attempted a lot of optimizations we did without this backing of proof". Formal methods allow us to optimize systems more boldly, by removing the risk that optimizations will affect correctness. They also allow our teams to move faster, with lower risk, by building confidence in correctness early on in the software development process.

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In case you missed our session at #reInvent, the recording is now available here: https://lnkd.in/gCkXTYHf You will learn about all the exciting product announcements from #AWS on Amazon QuickSight and #CapitalOne’s approach and long-standing commitment to put data and intelligence at the fingertips of our business users and customers to drive better decisions

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Here is another small feature that amounts to a huge quality of life improvement for AWS CloudFormation developers. You can now specify a timeout that applies to custom resources, so that you don't have to wait an hour to try again during the dev-test cycle if your code fails to respond. #aws #cloudformation https://lnkd.in/gJDV7C5n

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Accelerate your cloud journey with our new generative AI assistant on AWS re:Post https://repost.aws/. Collaborate with re:Post Agent and community experts to build your cloud workloads with confidence. #AWSrePost #GenerativeAIAssistant #CloudDevelopment 🤖💡🚀

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Want to learn how to enable your team to have more time to spend on #velocity versus frustrating operational tasks - without compromising #customerexperience while reducing the cost of your #operations? Join @ayeletsachto at DASH on June 25th where she'll share learnings from our two-year program, which reduced the cost of Google Kubernetes Engine Operations as our fleet increased without compromising the #reliability of our systems! #SRE

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