AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Rework, Amazon Neptune, and extra (September 8, 2025)

Summer season has drawn to an in depth right here in Utrecht, the place I dwell within the Netherlands. In two weeks, I’ll be attending AWS Group Day 2025, hosted on the Kinepolis Jaarbeurs Utrecht on September 24. The only-day occasion will carry collectively over 500 cloud practitioners from throughout the Netherlands, that includes 25 breakout classes throughout 5 technical tracks. The day will start with digital keynotes at 9:00 AM, adopted by parallel breakout classes targeted on sensible implementations of serverless architectures and container optimization methods, offering helpful insights no matter expertise degree.

Final yr’s AWS Group Day Netherlands 2024 introduced collectively a various group of cloud practitioners, audio system, and AWS fans who contributed to creating the community-led convention a helpful knowledge-sharing platform. Should you’re planning to attend, be at liberty to seek out me there to debate AWS companies or share your cloud implementation experiences!

Let’s take a look at final week’s new bulletins.

Final week’s launches

AWS Rework assessments now consists of indifferent storage evaluation – AWS Rework has expanded its evaluation capabilities to research on-premises indifferent storage infrastructure, serving to clients decide migration complete price of possession (TCO). The evaluation now evaluates Storage Space Community (SAN), Community Connected Storage (NAS), file servers, object storage, and digital environments, offering migration suggestions to applicable AWS companies together with Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, and Amazon FSx. The device delivers a complete TCO comparability between present and AWS environments, together with efficiency and value optimization suggestions. With storage accounting for as much as 45% of complete migration alternatives, this enhancement helps clients visualize numerous AWS migration choices. AWS Rework evaluation is accessible in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt) Areas.

Amazon Bedrock introduces International Cross-Area inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 – Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 mannequin in Amazon Bedrock now helps International cross-Area inference, permitting inference requests to path to any supported industrial AWS Area for processing. This enhancement optimizes out there sources and allows greater mannequin throughput by distributing site visitors throughout a number of Areas. Beforehand, you possibly can choose cross-Area inference profiles tied to particular geographies (US, EU, or APAC). The brand new International cross-Area inference profile supplies further flexibility for generative AI use circumstances that don’t require geography-specific processing, serving to handle unplanned site visitors bursts and enhance mannequin throughput. For detailed implementation steering, go to the Amazon Bedrock documentation.

Amazon Neptune Database provides Public Endpoints help – Amazon Neptune now helps Public Endpoints, enabling direct connections to Neptune databases from outdoors the VPC with out advanced networking configurations. This characteristic helps builders securely entry their graph databases from improvement desktops with out requiring VPN connections or bastion hosts, whereas sustaining safety by way of IAM authentication, VPC safety teams, and encryption in transit. Public Endpoints could be enabled for Neptune clusters operating engine model 1.4.6 or above by way of the AWS Administration Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. The characteristic is accessible at no further price past normal Neptune pricing in all AWS Areas the place Neptune Database is obtainable. Implementation particulars can be found within the Amazon Neptune documentation.

ECS Exec now out there in AWS Administration Console – Amazon ECS now helps ECS Exec instantly within the AWS Administration Console, enabling safe, interactive shell entry to operating containers with out requiring inbound ports or SSH key administration. Beforehand out there solely by way of API, CLI, or SDKs, this characteristic streamlines troubleshooting by permitting container entry instantly from the console interface. You’ll be able to allow ECS Exec when creating or updating companies and standalone duties, then hook up with containers by deciding on “Join” on the duty particulars web page, which opens an interactive session by way of CloudShell. The console additionally shows the underlying AWS CLI command to be used in native terminals. This characteristic is accessible in all AWS industrial Areas and documented within the ECS developer information.

Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS Person Notifications now usually out there – AWS Person Notifications now helps Organizational Notification Configurations, serving to AWS Organizations customers centrally configure and think about notifications throughout their group. Administration accounts or delegated directors can configure notifications for particular organizational items or all accounts in a company. The service helps configuring notifications for any supported Amazon EventBridge occasion, comparable to console sign-ins with out MFA, with notifications showing within the admin’s Console Notifications Middle and AWS Console Cell Software. Person Notifications helps as much as 5 delegated directors and is accessible in all AWS Areas the place AWS Person Notifications is obtainable. For implementation particulars, go to the AWS Person Notifications person information.

For a full listing of AWS bulletins, remember to regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendar and join upcoming AWS occasions.

AWS Summits – Be part of free on-line and in-person occasions that carry the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Zurich (September 11), Los Angeles (September 17), and Bogotá (October 9).

AWS re:Invent 2025 – Be part of us in Las Vegas between December 1–5 as cloud pioneers collect from throughout the globe for the newest AWS improvements, peer-to-peer studying, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking alternatives. Don’t overlook to discover the occasion catalog.

AWS Group Days – Be part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable AWS customers and trade leaders from world wide: Baltic (September 10), Aotearoa (September 18), South Africa (September 20), Bolivia (September 20), Portugal (September 27).

Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions right here.

That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

— Esra

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