APIs to Tell You What You Already Paid For

AWS Morning Brief for the week of November 3rd, with Corey Quinn. 

Links:

• Beyond pilots: A proven framework for scaling AI to production
• New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance
• Processing Amazon S3 objects at scale with AWS Step Functions Distributed Map S3 prefix
• What’s the difference between AWS ParallelCluster and AWS Parallel Computing Service?
• France Télévisions prepared for 2024 Olympic Games with AWS Countdown Premium
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports 10x larger record sizes
• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) announces upgraded query planner that can run queries up to 10x faster
• Announcing AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon End-of-Support and OpenTelemetry Migration
• Amazon S3 adds conditional write functionality to copy operations
• Introducing the Capacity Reservation Topology API for AI, ML, and HPC instance types
• How to deploy a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance across three Availability Zones using Storage Spaces Direct 
• Reduce CAPTCHAs for AI agents browsing the web with Web Bot Auth (Preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser
• Using Kubernetes Labels to Split and Track Application Costs on Amazon EKS
• Introducing AWS Lambda event source mapping tools in the AWS Serverless MCP Server 
• Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS supports Kubernetes labels