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Here are some of the more esoteric happenings from the AWS jamboree this week:

AWS Amplify Studio has been launched, providing a new environment to allow developers to create web app UIs with minimal coding.  

It encourages users to fully customize their applications’ design and behaviour using programming languages. With AWS Amplify Studio, developers can design UI with a library of components such as buttons, newsfeeds, user registration forms, etc. They also will be able to collaborate with user experience (UX) designers to help with their creations. The highlight is the environment’s ability to allow users to connect their UI to AWS services through a visual interface without writing any code. Source 

Two new AWS initiatives aim to bring machine learning to all. 

AWS announced a new $10 million AWS Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Scholarship (AWS AI & ML Scholarship). Along with this, AWS is further increasing access to machine learning through Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, which gives everyone access to a no-cost version of Amazon SageMaker. 

The AWS AI & ML Scholarship is a new education and scholarship program aimed at preparing underrepresented students globally for careers in machine learning. The program uses AWS DeepRacer to teach students foundational machine learning concepts by giving them hands-on experience training machine learning models for autonomous race cars, while providing educational content. The SageMaker, is an AWS service that helps customers build, train, and deploy machine learning models. Source 

AWS leap into the future – Innovation Day has been announced for December 7 to cover the company’s most exciting projects. 

AWS Innovation Day will showcase Amazon’s accomplishments in Machine Learning, Supercomputing, and Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics. Join this virtual session at AWS to witness how it is manufacturing in space, helping grow ‘super dust rice’, building a camp on the Moon, revamping F1 racing and fighting climate change. Source 

Google Cloud has announced plans for a series of new data centre regions globally and touted its clean cloud credentials.

Alongside the US, Google Cloud plans to open facilities in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and a second region in Germany. A region in Santiago, Chile, has become operational. Source

The company also took the opportunity to tout that its cloud was the cleanest. In September 2020, Google made the commitment of making all its businesses carbon-free by 2030. March this year saw the cloud provider go one step further and disclose carbon performance for its regions. The company is carbon neutral today.

This still relates to re:Invent in some capacity, as AWS introduced a new Sustainability Pillar to its Well Architected Framework. The pillar helps organizations ‘learn, measure, and improve their workloads using environmental best practices for cloud computing,’ in AWS’ own words. As AWS sees it, the shared responsibility model for cloud security can also work with sustainability. The customer is responsible for sustainability in the cloud – software and application design, code efficiency – while AWS is responsible for sustainability of the cloud, and its infrastructure.