Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Three new capabilities for Amazon Inspector broaden the realm of vulnerability scanning for workloads

Today, Amazon Inspector adds three new capabilities to increase the realm of possibilities when scanning your workloads for software vulnerabilities: Amazon Inspector introduces a new set of open source plugins and an API allowing you to assess your container images for software vulnerabilities at build time directly from your continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) […]

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals for automatic instrumentation of your applications (preview)

One of the challenges with distributed systems is that they are made up of many interdependent services, which add a degree of complexity when you are trying to monitor their performance. Determining which services and APIs are experiencing high latencies or degraded availability requires manually putting together telemetry signals. This can result in time and […]

New myApplications in the AWS Management Console simplifies managing your application resources

Today, we are announcing the general availability of myApplications supporting application operations, a new set of capabilities that help you get started with your applications on AWS, operate them with less effort, and move faster at scale. With myApplication in the AWS Management Console, you can more easily manage and monitor the cost, health, security […]

Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond

Throughout history, people have developed tools and systems to augment and amplify their own capabilities. Whether the printing press or the assembly line, these innovations have allowed us to do more than we ever could alone. Jobs changed, new professions emerged, and people adapted. In the past year, the rate of change has rapidly accelerated. […]

What Is OpenTelemetry and How Can It Help You Monitor Your Cloud?

OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation that empower developers to observe, collect, and manage telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) from their services for improved reliability, understandability, and debuggability. The project is a merger of two formerly separate projects: OpenTracing and OpenCensus. By combining the best features from both, OpenTelemetry aims […]

Easily deploy SaaS products with new Quick Launch in AWS Marketplace

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of SaaS Quick Launch, a new feature in AWS Marketplace that makes it easy and secure to deploy SaaS products. Before SaaS Quick Launch, configuring and launching third-party SaaS products could be time-consuming and costly, especially in certain categories like security and monitoring. Some products require […]

How blockchain enables trust in water trading

Australia pioneered water rights trading in the early 1900s, becoming a world leader in water sharing between valleys. The initiative extended throughout the states of Australia across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). However, findings from the water market’s inquiry of the MDB, completed by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) and the Department of Climate […]

Package and deploy models faster with new tools and guided workflows in Amazon SageMaker

I’m happy to share that Amazon SageMaker now comes with an improved model deployment experience to help you deploy traditional machine learning (ML) models and foundation models (FMs) faster. As a data scientist or ML practitioner, you can now use the new ModelBuilder class in the SageMaker Python SDK to package models, perform local inference […]

Use natural language to explore and prepare data with a new capability of Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Today, I’m happy to introduce the ability to use natural language instructions in Amazon SageMaker Canvas to explore, visualize, and transform data for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Canvas now supports using foundation model-(FM) powered natural language instructions to complement its comprehensive data preparation capabilities for data exploration, analysis, visualization, and transformation. Using natural language instructions, […]