3 New Features and Updates From AWS You Need to Know

Introduction

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is constantly adding new features and updates to its cloud computing platform. This article will provide you with information about some of the most recent changes, including new services, features, and improvements to existing services.

Amazon CodeWhisperer

Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI coding assistant that generates real-time, whole-line, and full-function code suggestions in developers’ IDEs after being trained on billions of lines of Amazon and open-source code. This tool aids developers in writing code. The individual tier of Amazon CodeWhisperer is free for individual usage, and the professional tier offers administrative tools for businesses looking to provide their developers access to CodeWhisperer. 

Using Amazon CodeWhisperer will aid in:

  • Providing context-specific code suggestions
  • Monitoring code and includes references for similarities with known open-source code
  • Scanning code for hard-to-find vulnerabilities
  • Generating test cases

AWS DMS Serverless

Launched in 2016, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) was created to assist database and analytics migrations to the cloud. It provided a simple process that automated database migrations projects. This saved time, resources, and money. However, you still had to extensively research and plan the required capacity for migrating, and it was difficult to efficiently scale capacity before migration. You also had to monitor usage and manually scale capacity on a consistent basis to optimize performance. Solving these issues, the newly released AWS DMS Serverless is a new serverless option in DMS that automatically sets up, scales, and manages migration resources to simplify and cost-optimize database migrations.

GraphStorm

Graphstorm is a new low-code enterprise graph machine learning (ML) platform that allows users to quickly develop, train, and deploy graph ML solutions on intricate enterprise-scale graphs. With GraphStorm, what would previously take months now takes days. 

Conclusion

In conclusion, AWS is constantly adding new features and updates to its cloud computing platform. These new features and updates can help you to improve the performance, security, and reliability of your applications. By staying up-to-date on the latest AWS features and updates, you can ensure that your applications are taking advantage of the latest technologies and best practices.