Summary of AWS blogs for the week of Mon Jul 29

In the week of Mon Jul 29 2024, AWS published 102 blog posts – here is an overview of what happened.

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Desktop and Application Streaming

The latest release of the Cost Optimizer for Amazon WorkSpaces, version 2.7, brings significant improvements for managing costs effectively. This tool analyzes usage data and can automatically switch the WorkSpace instance to the most cost-effective billing option based on individual usage patterns. The Cost Optimizer supports both single accounts and multiple accounts through AWS Organizations. With this tool, organizations can ensure they are not overpaying for underused resources, enabling better cost management and allocation of IT budgets.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 has been announced for Amazon WorkSpaces and Amazon AppStream 2.0, expanding the choices available to users. AWS customers now have the option to use RHEL 8 for their virtual desktops, ensuring they can leverage a familiar and robust operating system. This announcement highlights AWS’s commitment to offering flexible infrastructure, allowing users to deploy workloads and store critical data using their preferred solutions. By integrating RHEL 8, AWS enhances its support for enterprise customers who rely on Red Hat for their IT operations, providing them with a secure and scalable virtual desktop environment.

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AWS DevOps Blog

Amazon Q Developer just reached a $260 million dollar milestone. Developers worldwide are turning to generative AI-powered assistants like Amazon Q Developer to enhance productivity. Although Amazon Q Developer excels in providing code suggestions, writing new code is just one aspect of a developer’s daily tasks. The assistant streamlines various development activities, making it an invaluable tool for modern software development.

Accelerate Your Terraform Development with Amazon Q Developer

This post demonstrates how Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered assistant for software development, aids in creating Terraform templates. Terraform is an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that provisions and manages AWS infrastructure safely and predictively. When used within an integrated development environment (IDE), Amazon Q Developer assists in generating code, providing explanations, and more. This integration enhances the development process by reducing manual coding effort and increasing accuracy.

Balance Deployment Speed and Stability with DORA Metrics

Development teams embracing DevOps practices aim to boost the speed and quality of their software delivery. The DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics provide a widely recognized method to measure progress towards these goals. Consisting of four key metrics, DORA metrics allow senior leaders to evaluate the current state of team maturity and identify areas for optimization. This blog post outlines how to leverage these metrics to achieve a balanced approach to deployment speed and stability.

Testing Your Applications with Amazon Q Developer

Testing code is crucial in software development, ensuring applications are reliable, meet quality standards, and function as intended. Automated software tests detect issues early, reducing the impact on end-user experience and business. In addition to identifying defects, tests serve as documentation and help prevent regression as code evolves. Amazon Q Developer supports developers in writing and maintaining tests, making the testing process more efficient and effective.

Use OpenID Connect with AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps to Perform AWS CodeDeploy Deployments

Many organizations leverage AWS services like AWS CloudFormation and AWS CodeDeploy while integrating with existing workflows. These customers prefer maintaining their version control systems, such as GitHub, and continue using their established continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. This blog post introduces how to use OpenID Connect with the AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps to seamlessly perform AWS CodeDeploy deployments, ensuring a smooth integration between AWS and Azure DevOps environments.

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AWS for SAP

One reason thousands of customers choose AWS to run their mission-critical SAP workloads is to improve reliability and business resilience. In fact, a 2023 IDC report found that customers who run S/4HANA on AWS experience 58% less unplanned downtime compared to on-premises environments. Increasingly, SAP customers are choosing RISE with SAP on AWS to support their digital transformation journeys. In this article, we’ll introduce how Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights can help improve SAP business process resilience on AWS.

Understanding Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights

Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights is a cloud-native service designed to improve application monitoring. It helps identify common problems with enterprise applications, including SAP workloads, by automatically setting up monitoring and providing recommendations to optimize performance and reliability.

Enhanced Monitoring for SAP Workloads

For SAP customers, this means that they can leverage Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights to gain deep visibility into their SAP systems running on AWS. The service provides automated dashboards and alerts

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