Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos

At re:Invent 2024, we announced Amazon Nova models, a new generation of foundation models (FMs), including Amazon Nova Reel, a video generation model that creates short videos from text descriptions and optional reference images (together, the “prompt”). Today, we introduce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation, […]

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AWS Weekly Review: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025)

AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest […]

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Meet the AWS News Blog team!

Now that Jeff Barr has retired from the AWS News Blog as of December last year, the AWS News Blog team will keep sharing the most important and impactful AWS product launches the moment they become available. I want to quote Jeff’s last comment on the future of the News Blog again: Going forward, the […]

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Accelerate operational analytics with Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Q Developer support for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. Amazon Q Developer enhances the OpenSearch Service experience by reducing the learning curve for query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features. The new capabilities complement existing dashboards and visualizations by enabling […]

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Amazon API Gateway now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints

Today, we are launching IPv6 support for Amazon API Gateway across all endpoint types, custom domains, and management APIs, in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now configure REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, and custom domains, to accept calls from IPv6 clients alongside the existing IPv4 support. You can also call API […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon QuickSight, AWS Amplify, and more (March 31, 2025)

It’s AWS Summit season! Free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I’ll be attending the AWS Amsterdam Summit and would love to meet you—if you’re planning […]

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Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available

I’m excited to announce that AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel test execution, so you can run your test suites concurrently and reduce build times significantly. With the demo project I wrote for this post, the total test time went down from 35 minutes to six minutes, including the time to provision the environments. These two […]

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Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of the AWS WAF integration with AWS Amplify Hosting. Web application owners are constantly working to protect their applications from a variety of threats. Previously, if you wanted to implement a robust security posture for your Amplify Hosted applications, you needed to create architectures using Amazon CloudFront distributions with […]

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Detailed geographic information for all AWS Regions and Availability Zones is now available

Starting today, you can get more granular visibility of geographic location information for AWS Regions and AWS Availability Zones (AZs). This detailed information will help you choose the Regions and AZs that align with your regulatory, compliance, and operational requirements. We continue to expand the AWS global infrastructure to meet your business requirements and now […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Omdia recognition, Amazon Bedrock RAG evaluation, International Women’s Day events, and more (March 24, 2025)

As we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) this March, I had the privilege of attending the ‘Women in Tech’ User Group meetup in Shenzhen last weekend. I was inspired to see over 100 women in tech from different industries come together to discuss AI ethics from a female perspective. Together, we explored strategies such as […]

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