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This is episode 672 of the AWS podcast released on June 17th, 2024.

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Welcome everyone to the AWS podcast.

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This is Jillian Ford taking

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the place of Simon to do

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this intro, which I still, it never

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gets old, how weird it feels, but

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Simon's around. He's just on

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vacation today, but I

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am here with the one and only amazing

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Trudy. How's it going, Trudy? It's

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going really well. And thank you for that

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call out. One and only amazing. I don't

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think anyone's ever called me that. So that's

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awesome. Oh, first time for everything on the

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update show. That's right. I

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probably am the only host who's

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named Trudy in our whatever history of hosts.

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So that might be true. And

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I'm excited for the updates we have here.

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I feel like you're right that it never

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gets old, that it's somehow always seems hard

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when Simon's not around. But I also think

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we are finding our groove as when we

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do this, just you and me. I think

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so too. Yeah. Multi-availability

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zones. We are distributed this team.

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So multi-region, that's right. This one's going to be

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a shorter one, but there's a lot of just

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like really useful updates, I would

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say for the folks who are listening. So

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let's get into them. Let's start with analytics.

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Amazon open search ingestion now

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allows you to ingest streaming

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data from Amazon managed streaming

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for Apache Kafka serverless, enabling

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you to seamlessly index the data

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from Amazon MSK serverless clusters and

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Amazon open search service managed clusters

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or serverless collections without the need

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for any third party data connectors.

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With this integration, you can now use

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Amazon open search ingestion to

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perform near real time aggregations,

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sampling and anomaly detection on

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data ingested from Amazon MSK

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serverless, helping you to build

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efficient data pipelines to power

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your complex observability and

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analytics use cases. Another

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great updates from the Open

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such seen his fractional point

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five open search capacity units.

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The open search service can

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be deployed starting actress to

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O sea use. For.

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Production workloads. This includes One O

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Sea You which is hop asserts

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capacity units for primary and stand

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by indexing notes at point Five

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O Sea of each and one

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O Sea a total for search

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across two Point Five O Sea

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You active replica notes in separate

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of zones. Open. Source

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service will automatically skill. Up the O

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C use be some workload demand. Additionally,

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for death and test workloads that

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don't require highveld only open search

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service. Offers a one o sea

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you deployment option further cutting costs

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and half with Point Five Oh

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Sees for indexing and Point Five

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O Sea You for search. Last

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one on analytics is. We

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are excited to announce any streaming

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job mode on Amazon Am are

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surplus. Enabling you to continuously

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analyze and process streaming data. Are

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right next up. We have

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a few updates under application

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integration. Eight of Health Imaging

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now supports his injuries and

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architectures by sending event notifications

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to Amazon Event Bridge. Amazon

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time stream for live analytics

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is now an Amazon Even

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Bridge. Five Stargate. Simplifying

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the ingestion of time series

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data from sources such as

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Amazon can assess Amazon Dynamo,

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Db, Amazon Ask Us and

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more. Pipes provide a

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fully managed experience, enabling you

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to ingest time series data

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into time stream for live

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analytics without the need to

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write undifferentiated integration. Court always

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loved that when eight of

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as does the heavy lifting

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of writing undifferentiated good. totally.

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Eight of us are fabric. And. Know

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court service that quickly degrades

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with. That applications to

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enhance an organization Security

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for shirt now supports

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jump cloud. Up

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Fabric provides aggregated and normalized

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ordered logs from popular Sas

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applications such as Slack, the

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Zoom Salesforce at machines you

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to suit, so on and

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so forth. By. Centralizing

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Sas application data. Up

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Fabric Health Steams gain greater

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visibility into one that abilities

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in a customer Sas environment,

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enabling them to monitor. Threats.

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More effectively and respond to

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incidents. Id.

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And security team and no longer

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need to manage find to find

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Sas integrations that take time away

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from higher value tasks like standardizing

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alerts are setting common security policy.

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Know. We got artificial intelligence.

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Amazon sees me current now integrates

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model cards into model registry, making

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it easier for customers to manage

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governance information for specific model versions

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directly a model registry and just

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a few clicks. Amazon

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Cute developer launches a I powered

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inline completions in the command line.

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As developers type in their command

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line, you developer will provide real

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time a. I generated code suggestions

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for instance, if a developer types.

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Back. Ticket Get back Tix

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Q Developer might suggest back

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Tic Push Origin Main Basic.

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That's. A symbol back to not actually

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reading tactic, just. For. You

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all else developers can accept the

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suggestion by simply pressing the the

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right arrow. Amazon.

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Titan text embedding version to with

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a. New embedding model in the.

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Amazon Time family of models is

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now available for use with knowledge

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pieces for Amazon Bedrock. Using Titan

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text to embedding speed to customers

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can embed their data into effect

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or database. And use it to

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retrieve relevant information for. Tasks such

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as questions and answers,

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classification, or personalize recommendations.

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Amazon Text embedding to be to

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his office for retrieval augmented generation.

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And is an efficient model ideal

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for high accuracy. Retrieval tasks

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at different dimensions The mall

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support flexible. Embedding sizes and

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maintains accuracy at. Smaller dimension

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sizes. Hobby to reduce storage

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costs without compromising on accuracy.

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One reducing from one thousand twenty

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four to five hundred and twelve

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dimensions time text embedding to be

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to were teens approximately ninety nine

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percent retrieval accuracy, and reducing from

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one thousand and twenty four to

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two hundred fifty six dimensions the

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mall or of maintains ninety seven

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percent accuracy. Additionally, plain

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text embedding spears and to

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includes multilingual support. For over a

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hundred. Languages in Pre Training as

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well as unit. Factor Normalization

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for improving accuracy of

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measuring sector similarity. Next.

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Self. We have a few updates under

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Compute. We. Are excited

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to announce the availability of

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Amazon! Easy to instance type

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find are enabling you to

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select the ideal easy to

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instant types for your workload.

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This uses machine learning to

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help customers make quick and

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cost effective selections of instance

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type before that provision that

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workloads. So using the aid

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of this management console, customers

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can specify the workload requirement

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and get really good recommendations

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on what instances. To use. Incensed.

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I find or is integrated with

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Amazon Q which will allow customers

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to use national language to specify

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requirements and then get the instant

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family situation. So. This

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one's really exciting because Easy

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To has more than seven

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fifty instance types and this

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kind of functionality with the

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instance type finder will enable

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customers to easily choose the

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best option for. They were to

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requirements whether they're trying to optimize

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performance or lower costs whatever that

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might be and by using the

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easy to and since I find

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or in Amazon, Q and other

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console experiences, customers will be able

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to make really informed decisions about

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what the best instant types are

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for their workloads and basically speed

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up at eight of the development

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instead of having to lose all

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his research themselves. find or will

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help guide your decisions. I'm really

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excited about this one's easy to

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insensate. Find. Or is available in

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all commercial eight of Us regions.

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No one thinks you're That is

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interesting is that we already have

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a similar functionality that you know

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customers may be familiar with which

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is called the Computer Optimizers. So

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what do you think about that

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When would customers use one horses

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the other? And what has your

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experience been with with Compute optimizers?

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Such. A third call out on

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compute optimizers so of folks were listening

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who don't know a computer optimizers is

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it will run analysis on your easy

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to instance utilization in your a that

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the U S environment. so this is

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great when you are running easy to

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instances and he wanna be able to

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understand hey. How. For utilization

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said I B M I using the

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right instance type so they may be

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can I use a smaller one or

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their savings plans opportunities So that is

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great for easy to instance workloads where

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you're already running them. So when I

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love about this is now there's really

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no excuse because it has got a

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new workload in your like on I

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What's going to pick a winner? What

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size depicts You've got the newest his

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recommendations and then if you've got one

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already you've got. To. Pew optimizers for

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those existing applications that are using Easy

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to instances. This something for pretty much

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anyone who's using Easy to as load

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everything Easy Do right? Yeah,

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absolutely something for everyone and easy

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to sort of provides the broadest

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and deepest set off instances and

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these to function. These help

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customers navigate that really broad

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and the portfolio. To. Help

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find the right one for them. All

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right. Next up, we have

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it up: Louis: Elastic Beanstalk

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or which now supports.net Aid

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on a L. Twenty Twenty

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Three Elastic Beanstalk Environments. And

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eight of us batch now

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offers the job queue snapshot

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feature enabling customers to observe

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the jobs at the front

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of that use. This feature

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provides visibility to the existing

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eight of the this batch

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fair share scheduling capabilities. The.

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Job Queue snapshot display of the jobs

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at the front of your job to

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use to assist. Administrators. Now.

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On Cassandra Edmunds, Amazon Can

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Act now provides time zone

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support for forecasts. Amazon Connect

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Agent Workspace now features. And

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up the the user interface to

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improve productivity and focus for your

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agents. Now.

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You have databases. Amazon.

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Or on my sequel, three.zero

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Seven. Is generally available. Eight.

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It is Dms now supports Babel

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Fish for over a post grass

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as a source. One.

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Quick update on developer tools Amazon

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Cool Catalyst now supports get hub

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cloud. Source Code with Blueprints Lupus

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are used by Code Catalyst to

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set up a code repository with

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a working simple app to find

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cloud infrastructure and run pre configured

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see I see the workflows for

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your project. Now customers can

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use code Carlos. Blueprints to create

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a project with a source repository

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and simple source code, Si Se

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workloads and build and test reports

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and integrate issue tracking tools. Know

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you've got to updates on front

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end web and mobile. Amazon.

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Apia gateway now enables customers.

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to increase their integration time out beyond

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the prior limit of twenty nine seconds

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i know this is really exciting if

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you've got any those Long-running workloads,

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maybe there's like a generative AI workload

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or there's some other SaaS type of

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application where you're relying on a third

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party and it requires this

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longer integration timeout. This is definitely one

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that you want to make sure that

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you bookmark as update. That's going to

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definitely help you. And

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the last one on the front

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end web and mobile updates

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is Amazon Location Service launches

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enhanced location integrity features, which

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offer tools to help developers

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evaluate the accuracy and authenticity

12:30

of user-reported locations. With

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enhanced location integrity features, customers can

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now use predictive tools that

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anticipate user movements into or

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out of customer-specified areas using

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criteria like time to breach and

12:44

proximity to enhance monitoring and security

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measures. Now

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one quick update on the

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Internet of Things, AWS IoT

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Device Management as a unified

12:55

connectivity metrics monitoring dashboard. Next

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up, we have Management and Governance.

13:03

Amazon CloudWatch now supports

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AWS CloudTrail Data Event

13:07

Logging for the GetMetric

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data and the GetMetric

13:11

widget image APIs. Amazon

13:14

CloudWatch Logs Livetail now

13:16

supports streaming CLI making

13:19

it possible to view, search, and

13:22

filter relevant log events in real

13:24

time. You can now view

13:26

your logs interactively in real time as

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they're ingested via the

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AWS CLI or programmatically

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within your own custom dashboards

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inside or outside of AWS.

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AWS launches AWS Tax

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Settings API, a new

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public API service that

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enables customers to programmatically

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view, set, and modify

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tax registration information and

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associated business legal name and

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address. This launch

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allows you to automate tax registration.

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updates as an enhanced

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offering to the AWS tax

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settings page. Up

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until now, customers managing tax

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registration information could only update

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this information from the tax

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settings page on the AWS

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billing console. This

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API now enables customers to

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automate setting their tax information

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while creating bulk accounts instead

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of manually setting tax registration

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information for accounts. This

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programmatic supports allow customers to

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build automation around setting and

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modifying tax registration information. Customer

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creating accounts using the AWS

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account creation API and other

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AWS services can now fully

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automate their account creation process

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by integrating the tax registration

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workflow into their overall programmatic

14:52

account creation process. One

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update on migration and transfer. AWS

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Transfer Family increases message size

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and throughput limits for the

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applicability statement protocol. And

15:06

last of the update show, we've

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got two updates on security, identity,

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and compliance. Amazon Inspector

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container image scanning is now

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available for Amazon Code Catalyst

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and GitHub Actions. And

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we've got an update from Audit Manager, which I

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think is gonna be tied with the

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EC2 instance new recommendation update,

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I've gotta say. Audit Manager, I

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love this one because there's so

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many industries, so many different types

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of businesses that can really benefit

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from Audit Manager. So this one's

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a really good one. So AWS

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Audit Manager hasn't introduced a common

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control library that simplifies the process

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of automating risk and compliance assessments

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against enterprise controls. This new

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library enables governance, risk, and

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compliance teams to efficiently map

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their controls into Audit Manager

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for evidence collection. The

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new common control library... provides

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predefined and pre-mapped AWS

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data sources, eliminating the need

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to identify which AWS resources

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to assess for various controls.

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It defines AWS Managed Common

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Controls based on extensive mapping

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and reviews by AWS certified

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auditors, determining the appropriate data

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sources for evidence collection. With

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this launch, Audit Manager will also

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deliver more evidence mappings for

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controls, including 140 newly supported API

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calls for

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additional evidence. You can

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customize and update all evidence mappings

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as appropriate for your objectives. The

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library also reduces the need

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to implement different compliance standard

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requirements individually and review data

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multiple times across different compliance

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regimes. It identifies

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common requirements controls,

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helping customers understand their

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audit readiness across multiple

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frameworks simultaneously. As

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AWS Audit Manager updates or adds

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data sources, such as

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CloudTrail events or API calls

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or any newly AWS Config

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rules or maps additional

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compliance frameworks to the common

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controls, customers automatically

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inherit these improvements. This

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removes the need for content updating

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and provides the benefit of additional

17:23

compliance frameworks added to the Audit

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Manager library. Shruti,

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that might be a world record of

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the fastest AWS update show we have

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ever done. I

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think so. I think this was a quick and

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short one, but it did have some interesting ones,

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as you said. Yeah, totally.

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EC2 recommender for new instance

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types, definitely this Audit Manager.

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I really liked that one.

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Shruti, where can people get a hold

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of you on the internet? Yeah,

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you can find me on LinkedIn, Shruti

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Koperkar, or you can also find me

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on Twitter. Same thing, Shruti Koperkar. And

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you can also reach out

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to us on aws.amazon.com/ podcast.

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everyone. Until next time, keep

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on building.