Azure Sphere: IoT Protection Made Simple

Azure Sphere: IoT Protection Made Simple

Introduction

If you want to create, connect, and maintain secured intelligent IoT devices from the edge to the cloud, you might want to check out Azure Sphere. It is a secured, high-level application platform with built-in communication and security features for internet-connected devices. This blog post will explore what Azure Sphere offers, its advantages, and the steps to use it.

What is Azure Sphere?

Azure Sphere is a product of Microsoft that consists of three components:

  • Secured, connected, crossover microcontroller unit (MCU) that integrates real-time processing capabilities with the ability to run a high-level operating system.
  • Custom high-level Linux-based operating system (OS) that provides a secured application environment, authenticated connections, and over-the-air updates.
  • Cloud-based security service that provides continuous, renewable security for the device, data, and infrastructure. It also enables interoperation with IoT platform services like Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central.

The Sphere MCUs can be embedded into new devices or used as guardian modules to connect existing devices to the cloud. Sphere devices can be updated, controlled, monitored, and maintained remotely through the Azure Sphere Security Service.

What are the advantages?

The Sphere offers several benefits for IoT developers and users, such as:

  • Protects your device, data, and infrastructure on all fronts—hardware, software, and in the cloud. It implements the seven properties of highly secured devices identified by Microsoft research. They are the hardware-based root of trust, small trusted computing base, certificate-based authentication, renewable security, defense in depth, compartmentalization, and failure reporting.
  • Simplifies device management and maintenance by providing automatic software updates from the cloud to any connected device. You can deploy updates and improvements to your application alongside your OS directly to the IoT device over-the-air (OTA).
  • Helps you focus on your business strategy and innovation by reducing the complexity and cost of developing secured IoT solutions. You can leverage flexible implementation options and bring-your-own-cloud connectivity to deploy your solutions faster.
  • Enables you to collect product usage data and customer feedback over a secured connection. You can use this data to diagnose problems, provide new functionality, and design better products.

How to use Azure Sphere?

To get started, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Order an Azure Sphere development kit from one of the hardware partners. The development kit includes an Azure Sphere MCU board and a USB cable.
  2. Install the Azure Sphere SDK on your Windows or Linux machine. The SDK includes tools and libraries for developing and debugging applications for Azure Sphere devices.
  3. Register your device with the Azure Sphere Security Service using the Azure Sphere CLI or Visual Studio Code extension. This will assign a unique ID to your device and enable it to receive OS updates and application deployments from the cloud.
  4. Develop your application using Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code to create your application for Sphere devices. You can use C or C++ as the programming language and leverage the Sphere libraries and APIs for communication and security features.
  5. Deploy your application using Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code to build and deploy your application to your device via USB or OTA. You can also use the Sphere CLI or REST API to manage your deployments programmatically.

Conclusion

To learn more, visit the official website or check out the documentation.

We hope this blog post has given you an overview of Azure Sphere, its advantages, and how to use it. If you have any questions or feedback, please leave a comment below.

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AWS WAF: Enhancements and Powerful Protection

AWS WAF: Enhancements and Powerful Protection

Overview

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that protects your web applications from common web exploits. It helps you control the traffic that reaches your applications by allowing you to create rules that block, allow, or monitor requests based on conditions that you define.

Latest Updates

In August and September 2023, AWS WAF announced some new features that make it even more powerful and easy to use. Here are some of the highlights:

  • Supports JSON parsing, enabling you to inspect JSON payloads’ contents and create rules based on specific attributes or values.
  • The WAF now integrates with AWS Firewall Manager, which allows you to centrally configure and manage your WAF rules across multiple accounts and resources.
  • Offers enhanced metrics and logging, which provide more visibility into the performance and effectiveness of your WAF rules. You can also export your logs to Amazon S3 or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for further analysis.

Getting Started with AWS WAF

To get started, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Create a web ACL, a container for your rules and default actions.
  2. Create rules defining the conditions you want to match and the actions you want to take for each request.
  3. Associate your web ACL with one or more AWS resources, such as Amazon CloudFront distributions, Application Load Balancers, or Amazon API Gateway APIs.

Advantages of AWS WAF

AWS WAF offers many advantages for securing your web applications, such as:

  • Flexible and granular control over your web traffic.
  • Protection from common web attacks, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and botnets.
  • Integration with other AWS services, such as Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda.
  • Scalability and reliability of the AWS cloud.
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing model.

To learn more, visit the official documentation.

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Azure Knowledge Mining: A Powerful AI Solution

Azure Knowledge Mining: A Powerful AI Solution

Overview

Are you looking for a way to extract valuable insights from your data, regardless of its format, location, or complexity? Do you want to leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to search, analyze, and explore your content at scale? If so, you might be interested in Azure Knowledge Mining, an emerging discipline in AI that uses a combination of intelligent services to quickly learn from vast amounts of information.

What is Azure Knowledge Mining?

According to Microsoft, knowledge mining is “an emerging discipline in artificial intelligence (AI) that uses a combination of intelligent services to quickly learn from vast amounts of information. It allows organizations to deeply understand and easily explore information, uncover hidden insights, and find relationships and patterns at scale.”

Azure Knowledge Mining is the Microsoft solution for knowledge mining, based on Azure Cognitive Search, the only cloud search service with built-in AI capabilities. Azure Cognitive Search enables you to ingest content from various sources, enrich it with AI skills such as natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning, and explore it through search, bots, applications, and data visualizations.

What are the benefits?

Azure Knowledge Mining can help you gain faster insights from diverse content types, customize your solution for your industry needs, and enable knowledge extraction wherever your data lives. Some of the benefits of Azure Knowledge Mining are you can:

  • Ingest content from Azure sources like Azure Blob storage, Azure Table storage, Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and hundreds of third-party sources via dedicated connectors.
  • Extract text-based content from file formats such as PDF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and CSV. See the full list of supported formats.
  • Enrich the content with AI skills to extract information, find patterns, and deepen understanding. For example, you can extract entities, key phrases, sentiments, locations, languages, images, audio, and more from your content.
  • Apply machine learning models as custom skills for specific requirements like industry-specific regulations or custom entity extraction.
  • Explore the newly indexed data via search, bots, existing business applications, and data visualizations. You can also use semantic search to understand user intent and contextually rank the most relevant search results for users.

How to use Azure Knowledge Mining?

To use Azure Knowledge Mining, you must follow three steps: ingest, enrich, and explore.

  1. Ingest: You need to create an Azure Cognitive Search service in the Azure portal and connect it to your data sources using indexers or push APIs. You can also use the Import data wizard in the portal to quickly create an index from your data source.
  2. Enrich: You must define a skillset specifying the AI skills you want to apply to your content. You can use predefined cognitive skills or custom skills that you create using Azure Machine Learning or other tools. You can also use the Knowledge Store feature to project enriched documents into tables or objects for further analysis.
  3. Explore: You need to create a search index that stores the enriched documents and enables fast and flexible querying. You can use the Search explorer in the portal to test your queries and see the results. You can also use the Azure Cognitive Search SDKs or REST APIs to integrate search functionality into your applications or services.

Conclusion

Azure Knowledge Mining is a powerful AI solution that can help you uncover latent insights from all your content. You can use Azure Cognitive Search and other Azure AI services to ingest, enrich, and explore your data at scale and deliver enhanced experiences to your users and customers.

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Azure Confidential Computing: Key Benefits

Azure Confidential Computing: Key Benefits

Overview

Azure confidential computing comprises technologies that safeguard your data and models at every stage of the AI lifecycle, even when in use. This allows you to execute AI workloads with sensitive data without risking unauthorized access or tampering. In this blog post, we’ll explore what Azure confidential computing offers, its advantages, and how you can employ it to develop secure AI solutions.

What is Azure Confidential Computing?

Azure confidential computing is grounded in the concept of trusted execution environments (TEEs). TEEs are hardware-protected memory areas that isolate code and data from the rest of the system. They thwart access or modification by anyone, including cloud operators, malicious admins, or privileged software like the hypervisor. TEEs also offer cryptographic attestation, validating the integrity and identity of the code within.

It supports two TEE types: software-based and hardware-based. Software-based TEEs use techniques like encryption and sandboxing, creating isolated environments. Hardware-based TEEs utilize dedicated hardware features like secure enclaves or protected memory, ensuring more robust isolation. Azure provides both TEE types through various services and VM sizes.

Advantages Confidential Computing

It provides several advantages for AI developers and users:

  • Protecting data and models in use: Run AI workloads with sensitive data (e.g., personal, financial, or health information) without exposing them to unauthorized access or tampering. Safeguard model architecture and weights from theft or reverse-engineering.
  • Enabling new scenarios and collaborations: Unlock new possibilities for AI applications demanding high security and privacy. Enable multi-party training and federated learning without sharing data or models centrally.
  • Increasing trust and compliance: Boost trust and transparency in your AI solutions by offering verifiable proof of data and model protection. Comply with regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA mandating data privacy and protection.

How to Utilize Azure Confidential Computing for AI?

The Confidential Computing offers multiple services and tools for building AI solutions with TEEs. Here are some examples:

  • Azure Machine Learning: Train and deploy AI models using hardware-based TEEs (e.g., Intel SGX or AMD SEV). Orchestrate federated learning across edge devices or cloud nodes.
  • Azure Cognitive Services: Access pre-built AI models for vision, speech, language, and decision-making using software-based TEEs (e.g., Open Enclave SDK or Intel SGX). Customize these models securely with your data.
  • NVIDIA GPU VMs: Run GPU-accelerated AI workloads using hardware-based TEEs (e.g., NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs with Ampere Protected Memory). Ensure data and model confidentiality and integrity while harnessing GPU performance.
  • Microsoft Research Confidential AI: Explore cutting-edge research projects and tools that delve into the confidential computing frontier for AI. Examples include CrypTFlow2 for secure multi-party computation on encrypted data and CryptoNets for encrypted model inference.

Conclusion

Azure confidential computing empowers you to safeguard your data and models throughout the AI lifecycle, even during use. With Azure confidential computing, you can create trustworthy AI solutions that deliver security, privacy, collaboration, and compliance benefits. To delve deeper into Azure confidential computing and get started, click here.

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Amazon CodeWhisperer: Key Features and Benefits

Amazon CodeWhisperer: Key Features and Benefits

Are you an avid developer looking to streamline your coding experience? Enter Amazon CodeWhisperer – a revolutionary tool designed to elevate your coding prowess. This blog post’ll delve into what Amazon CodeWhisperer offers, its incredible advantages, and a step-by-step guide on harnessing its capabilities.

What Amazon CodeWhisperer Offers

CodeWhisperer is an advanced cloud-based coding assistant developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It offers a wide array of features tailored to simplify and enhance your coding journey:

  • Code Suggestions: CodeWhisperer provides intelligent code suggestions, helping you write code faster and with greater accuracy.
  • Code Reviews: Seamlessly integrate CodeWhisperer into your code review process for enhanced code quality and collaboration.
  • Code Completion: Enjoy real-time code completion suggestions, improving coding efficiency.
  • Code Exploration: Easily navigate complex codebases and gain insights into code structures.
  • Code Documentation: Automatically generate code documentation to maintain codebase clarity.
  • Error Detection: Detect and correct errors before they become issues, saving time and resources.
  • Code Refactoring: Implement code improvements effortlessly with automated refactoring suggestions.
  • Collaboration Tools: Foster teamwork with built-in collaboration tools for shared coding experiences.

Advantages of Amazon CodeWhisperer

Now that we’ve explored its features, let’s dive into the incredible advantages that CodeWhisperer brings to the table:

  • Boosted Productivity: CodeWhisperer’s code suggestions and error detection capabilities drastically reduce development time.
  • Enhanced Code Quality: With real-time code reviews and refactoring suggestions, your codebase remains clean and error-free.
  • Improved Collaboration: Seamlessly collaborate with team members through shared coding experiences and instant feedback.
  • Codebase Understanding: Code exploration features make it easier to grasp complex code structures.

Steps to Use Amazon CodeWhisperer

Ready to elevate your coding gameCodeWhisperer? Here’s a step-by-step guide to get you started:

  1. Set up an AWS account if you don’t have one already. This will grant you access to Amazon CodeWhisperer.
  2. Log in to your AWS account and navigate to the Amazon CodeWhisperer service.
  3. Integrate CodeWhisperer into your preferred code editor or IDE using the provided plugins or extensions.
  4. Begin coding as usual, and CodeWhisperer will automatically provide suggestions and assistance as you work.
  5. Invite team members to collaborate on your code, leveraging CodeWhisperer’s built-in collaboration tools.
  6. Regularly review code suggestions, error alerts, and refactoring options to enhance your codebase.
  7. Experience boosted productivity, improved code quality, and seamless collaboration as you continue to use Amazon CodeWhisperer.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Amazon CodeWhisperer is a game-changer for developers, offering comprehensive features and undeniable advantages. Following the steps outlined in this guide, you can harness its power and take your coding skills to new heights. Make the most of this innovative coding assistant and watch your development projects succeed.

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Amazon DevOps Guru: A Comprehensive Guide

Amazon DevOps Guru: A Comprehensive Guide

Are you looking for a way to monitor and improve your applications’ and infrastructure’s performance, availability, and reliability? Do you want to leverage the power of machine learning to identify and resolve operational issues before they impact your customers? If yes, you should check out Amazon DevOps Guru, a fully managed service that helps you achieve operational excellence with minimal effort.

What is Amazon DevOps Guru?

Amazon DevOps Guru is a service that uses machine learning to analyze data from your applications and infrastructure, such as metrics, logs, events, and traces. It automatically detects anomalies and deviations from normal behavior, such as increased latency, error rates, resource exhaustion, and configuration changes. It also provides actionable insights and recommendations to help you troubleshoot and resolve the root causes of the issues.

Amazon DevOps Guru can monitor any application or infrastructure running on AWS, regardless of the architecture, language, or framework. It can also integrate with third-party tools such as Slack, PagerDuty, and Atlassian Opsgenie to send notifications and alerts.

What are the benefits of Amazon DevOps Guru?

Amazon DevOps Guru offers several advantages over traditional monitoring and troubleshooting tools, such as:

  • Reduces the manual effort and complexity involved in setting up and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems. You don’t need to define thresholds, rules, or policies for detecting anomalies. DevOps Guru does it for you using machine learning models that learn from your data and adapt to changes over time.
  • Provides comprehensive and holistic visibility into the health and performance of your applications and infrastructure. You can easily access a dashboard that shows you the current status, trends, and history of your operational metrics and events. You can also drill down into the details of each anomaly and insight to understand the issue’s impact, severity, and root cause.
  • Helps you prioritize and resolve issues faster and more effectively. DevOps Guru not only alerts you when something goes wrong, but also provides you with relevant context, such as related anomalies, correlated metrics, code changes, deployments, and configuration changes. It also suggests remediation steps based on best practices and historical data.

How to Use Amazon DevOps Guru?

Using DevOps Guru is simple. You need to follow these steps:

  • Enable Amazon DevOps Guru for your AWS account. You can do this from the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).
  • Specify the resources that you want to monitor. You can choose to monitor all resources in your account or select specific resources by tags or AWS CloudFormation stacks.
  • Wait for DevOps Guru to start collecting and analyzing data from your resources. This may take up to 15 minutes depending on the size and complexity of your environment.
  • View the dashboard and notifications from DevOps Guru. You can access the dashboard from the AWS Management Console or use the AWS CLI or SDKs to retrieve the data programmatically. You can also configure Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topics to receive notifications via email, SMS, or other channels.
  • Take action based on the insights and recommendations from DevOps Guru. You can use the AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter to view and manage operational items related to your issues. You can also use AWS Systems Manager Automation documents to automate common remediation tasks.

Conclusion

Amazon DevOps Guru is a powerful service that can help you improve the operational excellence of your applications and infrastructure. It uses machine learning to automatically detect anomalies and provide insights and recommendations for troubleshooting and resolution. It also integrates with other AWS services and third-party tools to provide a seamless and comprehensive monitoring and alerting solution.

To learn more, you can visit the official website. You can also try it out for free for up to 30 days using the free tier offer.

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Microsoft Sales Copilot: Sales Team Empowerment

Overview

Do you want to streamline your sales process and improve your customer relationships? If you do, you should check out Microsoft Sales Copilot, the AI assistant designed for sellers.

Microsoft Sales Copilot is a smart CRM companion with Dynamics 365 Sales or Salesforce Sales Cloud. It helps you automate and simplify tasks, personalize customer interactions, and stay in the flow of work by integrating with Microsoft 365 apps, such as Outlook and Teams.

In this blog post, we will explore some of the features and advantages of Sales Copilot. We will also show you how to get started with this powerful tool.

What You Can Do with Microsoft Sales Copilot

The Sales Copilot offers a range of AI capabilities to help you drive efficiency and effectiveness in your sales process. With Sales Copilot, you can:

  • Draft emails and set up meetings in Outlook with data from your CRM and Microsoft 365 using AI.
  • Save AI-generated email and meeting summaries in Teams, Outlook, and Dynamics 365 Sales directly to your CRM.
  • Eliminate note-taking with AI-generated meeting transcriptions, competitor mentions, and action items in Teams and Dynamics 365 Sales.
  • Get AI assistance for suggested tips, related information, and answers to customers’ questions during Teams calls.
  • Build stronger customer relationships with real-time call insights, content recommendations, and post-call analysis to improve future interactions.
  • Sync updates in Teams and Outlook to your CRM automatically to maintain accurate customer records.
  • View a summary of your customer information in Microsoft 365 apps using data from your CRM.
  • Work together with disparate sales teams using Teams collaboration spaces that offer integrated access to Dynamics 365 Sales and Salesforce data.

How Sales Copilot Benefits You

The Sales Copilot can help you achieve several benefits for your sales performance and customer satisfaction. Using it, you can:

  • Save time and reduce errors by automating and simplifying tasks that would otherwise require manual data entry or context switching.
  • Increase productivity and focus by eliminating distractions and staying in the apps you use daily.
  • Enhance communication and collaboration by sharing relevant information and insights with your team members and managers.
  • Improve customer experience and loyalty by delivering personalized and timely responses, suggestions, and follow-ups.
  • Boost sales effectiveness and outcomes by leveraging AI insights and recommendations to optimize your sales strategy and tactics.

How to Get Started

If you are interested in trying out Sales Copilot, here are some steps you can take to get started:

  • Check if you have the required licenses for Microsoft Sales Copilot. You need a product license for Microsoft 365 for enterprise or Office 365 for enterprise and a subscription for Dynamics 365 Sales Enterprise or Premium or Salesforce Sales Cloud.
  • Install Microsoft Sales Copilot from this link.
  • Connect your CRM account (Dynamics 365 or Salesforce) to Microsoft Sales Copilot.
  • Start using Microsoft Sales Copilot in Outlook or Teams.

For more information on installing and using Sales Copilot, click support page.

Conclusion

Microsoft Sales Copilot is a powerful AI assistant that can help you streamline your sales process and improve customer relationships. It works with Dynamics 365 Sales or Salesforce Sales Cloud and integrates with Microsoft 365 apps, such as Outlook and Teams, to help you automate and simplify tasks, personalize customer interactions, and stay in the flow of work.

If you want to boost your sales productivity and effectiveness, try it. You can start by installing Microsoft Sales Copilot from this link and connecting your CRM account.

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Microsoft Security Copilot: Fortifying Digital Defenses

Microsoft Security Copilot: Fortifying Digital Defenses

Microsoft Security Copilot: Overview

Cybersecurity is crucial to any business, especially in the digital age. However, managing security risks and threats can be challenging and time-consuming. That’s why Microsoft has developed Security Copilot, an AI-powered tool that helps you protect your data and devices from cyberattacks.

Security Copilot is a cloud-based service that integrates with Microsoft 365 and Azure. It provides you with a comprehensive and personalized security dashboard where you can monitor your security posture, identify vulnerabilities, and take action to remediate them. Security Copilot also leverages AI to analyze your security data and provide insights and recommendations on improving your security.

Features and Benefits

Some of the features and benefits of Security Copilot are:

  • Gives you a single view of your security status across your Microsoft products, services, and third-party applications and devices.
  • Alerts you of any security incidents or anomalies and helps you investigate and respond quickly and effectively.
  • Uses AI to prioritize the most critical security issues and suggest the best actions.
  • Helps you comply with industry standards and regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, etc.
  • Enables you to create and enforce security policies and controls across your organization.
  • Allows you to customize your security settings and preferences according to your needs and preferences.

Getting Started with Microsoft Security Copilot

To use Security Copilot, you need to follow these steps:

  • Sign up for a free trial or a paid subscription on the Microsoft Security Copilot website.
  • Connect your Microsoft 365 account to the service using the Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication.
  • Configure your security settings and preferences on the Security Copilot dashboard.
  • Start monitoring and managing your data security with the service.

Microsoft Security Copilot is a powerful and easy-to-use service that can help you protect your data from cyber threats. It leverages the advanced capabilities of Microsoft 365 and Azure to provide a comprehensive and integrated data security solution. Try it today and see how it can enhance your data security. To learn more, click here.

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Microsoft GitHub Copilot: AI-Driven Code Assistance

Microsoft GitHub Copilot: AI-Driven Code Assistance

Overview

Are you looking for a way to speed up your coding process and improve your productivity? If yes, then you should check out Microsoft GitHub Copilot, a new AI-powered tool that can help you write better code faster.

What is Microsoft GitHub Copilot?

Microsoft GitHub Copilot is a Visual Studio Code extension that uses artificial intelligence to suggest code snippets as you type. It can generate whole functions, tests, comments, and more based on your context and intent. It can also adapt to your coding style and preferences, learning from your feedback and edits.

What are the advantages?

The GitHub Copilot can help you save time and effort by automating some of the tedious and repetitive coding tasks. It can also help you discover new ways of solving problems, learn new APIs and frameworks, and avoid common errors and bugs. Moreover, it can enhance your creativity and innovation by suggesting alternative approaches and solutions you might not have considered.

How to use Microsoft GitHub Copilot?

To use GitHub Copilot, you must have a Visual Studio Code editor and a GitHub account. You can install the extension from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace or from the GitHub Copilot website. Once installed, you can start using it by typing some code in your editor and waiting for the suggestions to appear in a pop-up window. You can accept, reject, or modify the suggestions as you wish. You can also use keyboard shortcuts or voice commands to interact with the tool.

Some points to consider while using Microsoft GitHub Copilot:

  • Microsoft GitHub Copilot is not a replacement for human programmers. It is a tool that can assist you, but not do everything for you. You must still write some code, review the suggestions carefully, and test the output thoroughly.
  • GitHub Copilot is not a source of truth. It does not guarantee the correctness, completeness, or quality of the code it generates. It may sometimes produce inaccurate, inappropriate, or insecure code. You are responsible for verifying the validity and legality of your code.
  • GitHub Copilot is not a plagiarism tool. It does not copy code from existing sources but synthesizes new code from a large corpus of public code and natural language data. However, some of the code it generates may be similar to existing code, so you should always cite the sources if you use any code snippets from Microsoft GitHub Copilot.

Conclusion

Microsoft GitHub Copilot is a groundbreaking tool that can revolutionize how developers code. It can help you write better code faster, with less hassle and more fun. However, it is not a magic wand that can solve all your coding problems. You still need to use your judgment, skills, and ethics when using it. To learn more about GitHub Copilot, visit its official website or read its documentation.

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AWS Application Integration: What's New

AWS Application Integration: What’s New

AWS Application Integration: What’s New in August 2023

AWS Application Integration is a suite of services that helps you connect applications, data, and devices across your cloud and on-premises environments. This blog post will highlight some of the new features and enhancements announced in August 2023.

Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry supports OpenAPI 3.0

Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry is a service that lets you discover, create, and manage schemas for events on EventBridge. You can use schemas to validate, transform, and enrich events in your applications. With the latest update, you can now use OpenAPI 3.0 to define schemas for RESTful APIs. OpenAPI 3.0 is a widely adopted standard for describing APIs, and it offers more flexibility and features than the previous versions. You can use OpenAPI 3.0 schemas to generate your APIs’ SDKs, documentation, and mock servers.

Amazon MQ adds support for RabbitMQ 3.9

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service that supports Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ is a popular open-source message broker that supports multiple messaging protocols and features. With the latest update, you can now use RabbitMQ 3.9 on Amazon MQ, which brings several improvements and bug fixes. Some of the notable changes include:

  • Improved performance and stability of the Raft-based distributed queue implementation.
  • Enhanced observability and monitoring capabilities with Prometheus and Grafana integration.
  • New CLI commands and API endpoints for managing policies, parameters, and definitions.
  • Support for Erlang/OTP 24 offers better performance, security, and compatibility.

AWS Step Functions Adds Support for Amazon SNS FIFO Topics

AWS Step Functions is a service that lets you coordinate multiple AWS services into workflows using a visual interface or code. Step Functions can orchestrate complex business processes like data processing, machine learning, and microservices. With the latest update, you can now use Amazon SNS FIFO topics as event sources or targets for Step Functions workflows. Amazon SNS FIFO topics are a type of Amazon SNS topic that preserves the order and deduplicates messages. You can use Amazon SNS FIFO topics to ensure your workflows receive and send messages reliably and consistently.

AWS Application Integration: Conclusion

In summary, the August 2023 updates to AWS Application Integration bring significant enhancements, including OpenAPI 3.0 support in Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry, RabbitMQ 3.9 in Amazon MQ with performance improvements and enhanced observability, and the addition of Amazon SNS FIFO topics in AWS Step Functions for reliable and consistent message handling. These updates empower users to seamlessly connect, manage, and orchestrate applications, making AWS Application Integration a powerful tool for building robust and efficient cloud and on-premises environments.

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