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		<title>AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This week, the&#160;AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift&#160;reached general availability. As a member of the&#160;Swift Server...</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://thenokiablog.com/aws-weekly-roundup-byom-for-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-aws-iot-device-sdk-for-swift-and-more-june-8-2026/">AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://thenokiablog.com">The NOKIA Blog</a>.</p>
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<p>This week, the&nbsp;AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift&nbsp;reached general availability. As a member of the&nbsp;Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet provisioning to Swift developers on macOS, iOS, tvOS, and Linux.</p>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-104245" src="https://thenokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/aws-weekly-roundup-byom-for-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-aws-iot-device-sdk-for-swift-and-more-june-8-2026.jpg" alt="Swift on IoT and Edge devices, an AI generated illustration" width="1024" height="559"></p>
<p>I&rsquo;m curious to see what you will build with it. Swift on the server has matured over the past few years, and now it reaches IoT devices too. This connects to a broader trend of running Swift at the edge. WendyOS, for example, is an open-source operating system for physical AI that offers first-class Swift support for deploying apps to NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi hardware. Between server-side Swift, IoT, and edge computing, the language is showing up in places that would have surprised most people a few years ago.</p>
<p>Now, let&rsquo;s get into this week&rsquo;s AWS news.</p>
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          <br></strong></span><strong>Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media</strong> &mdash; Customers who migrate SQL Server applications from on-premises environments can now reuse their existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses, including Software Assurance, through Microsoft&rsquo;s License Mobility program on Amazon RDS. BYOM is integrated with AWS License Manager for tracking license usage and compliance. Read more.</p>
<p>Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication&nbsp;&mdash; You can now synchronize user and machine identity data, including credentials, user pool configurations, and federation setups, to a secondary user pool in a standby Region in near real-time. In the event of a disruption in the primary Region, signed-in users continue accessing their applications without re-authenticating, and registered users can sign in with their existing credentials. Multi-Region replication is available as an add-on for user pools in Essentials or Plus feature tiers across 16 Regions.&nbsp;Read more.</p>
<p>GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock&nbsp;&mdash; You can now use GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 in production workloads on Amazon Bedrock and build with Codex for AI-powered software development, with the same security, governance, and operational controls you already use across AWS. GPT-5.5 is the most capable model from OpenAI, excelling at agentic coding, data analysis, and multi-step autonomous tasks. Codex is available through the Codex App, the Codex CLI, and IDE integrations with Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, and Xcode. Pricing matches OpenAI first-party rates, and usage counts toward existing AWS commitments.&nbsp;Read more.</p>
<p><span><strong>Last week&rsquo;s launches<br>
          <br></strong></span>Here are some launches and updates from this past week that caught my attention:</p>
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<li>Amazon Bedrock adds CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs&nbsp;&mdash; You can now monitor inference traffic to the bedrock-mantle endpoint with CloudWatch metrics, including inference counts, input and output token totals, and client error counts at account, project, model, and project-and-model granularity.</li>
<li>Amazon Bedrock launches a redesigned console optimized for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs&nbsp;&mdash; A refreshed console workflow with a model catalog, side-by-side comparison, project-based organization, and project-aware documentation with pre-filled code snippets.</li>
<li>Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports bring-your-own secrets with AWS Secrets Manager&nbsp;&mdash; Customers can now reference existing AWS Secrets Manager secret ARNs in AgentCore Identity Credential Providers, enabling full ownership of secrets governance including custom CMKs, tagging strategies, and automatic rotation.</li>
<li>AWS Step Functions adds AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step&nbsp;&mdash; You can now add AI agent reasoning steps to your Step Functions workflows through an integration with the managed harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Run multiple agents in parallel or sequence, add human approval, and trace every agent decision.</li>
<li>Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.36&nbsp;&mdash; Kubernetes 1.36 promotes User Namespaces to GA, introduces Mutating Admission Policies, In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling, and Resource Health Status reporting. Available in all Regions where EKS is available.</li>
<li>Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia&nbsp;&mdash; You can now create an ECS Managed Instances capacity provider with Inferentia2, Trainium1, and Trainium2 instance types and have Amazon ECS automatically allocate all accelerator resources to your workload.</li>
<li>Amazon Quick now supports VPC connectivity for MCP connections&nbsp;&mdash; Enterprise customers can now connect privately hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to Amazon Quick through VPC, enabling secure access to proprietary applications and internal tools without exposing them to the internet.</li>
<li>AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration&nbsp;&mdash; CUR 2.0 exports are automatically delivered in the optimal format for your chosen query engine, with supporting infrastructure templates, table definitions, and data loading instructions.</li>
<li>Amazon Location Service announces public transit and intermodal routing&nbsp;&mdash; The Routes API now supports two new travel modes, Transit and Intermodal, to plan journeys combining public transportation with walking, driving, taxi, and rental segments across 13 Regions.</li>
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<div class="internal-linking-related-contents"><a href="https://thenokiablog.com/skipping-the-whm-getting-started-wizard-cpanel-blog/" class="template-2"><span class="cta">Read more</span><span class="postTitle">Skipping the WHM Getting Started Wizard | cPanel Blog</span></a></div><p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the&nbsp;What&rsquo;s New with AWS&nbsp;page.</p>
<p><span><strong>Upcoming AWS events<br>
          <br></strong></span>Learn more about AWS, browse and join upcoming AWS-led in-person and virtual events, startup events, and developer-focused events as well as AWS Summits and AWS Community Days. Join the AWS Builder Center to connect with builders, share solutions, and access content that supports your development.<span><strong><br>
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<p>That&rsquo;s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!</p>
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		<title>AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, AWS Elemental Inference, Strands Labs, and more (March 2, 2026)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This past week, I&#8217;ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC...</p>
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<p>This past week, I&rsquo;ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I&rsquo;ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through a structured framework that helps organizations identify, prioritize, and implement AI use cases that deliver measurable business value.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-103232" src="https://thenokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/aws-weekly-roundup-openai-partnership-aws-elemental-inference-strands-labs-and-more-march-2-2026-1.png" alt="Screenshot of GenAI Developer Hour" width="1024" height="622"></p>
<p>AI-DLC is a methodology that takes companies from AI experimentation to production-ready solutions by aligning technical capabilities with business outcomes. If you&rsquo;re interested in learning more, check out this blog post that dives deeper into the framework, or watch as Riya Dani teaches me all about AI-DLC on our recent GenAI Developer Hour livestream!</p>
<p>Now, let&rsquo;s get into this week&rsquo;s AWS news&hellip;</p>
<div class="internal-linking-related-contents"><a href="https://thenokiablog.com/html-element-select-envato-tuts/" class="template-2"><span class="cta">Read more</span><span class="postTitle">HTML Element: select | Envato Tuts+</span></a></div><p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-103235 alignright" src="https://thenokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/aws-weekly-roundup-openai-partnership-aws-elemental-inference-strands-labs-and-more-march-2-2026-2.png" alt width="150" height="130">OpenAI and Amazon announced a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate AI innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with an initial $15 billion investment and followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met. AWS and OpenAI are co-creating a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI models, available through Amazon Bedrock, which allows developers to keep context, remember prior work, work across software tools and data sources, and access compute.</p>
<p>AWS will serve as the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents. OpenAI and AWS are expanding their existing $38 billion multi-year agreement by $100 billion over 8 years, with OpenAI committing to consume approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity, spanning both Trainium3 and next-generation Trainium4 chips.</p>
<p><strong>Last week&rsquo;s launches</strong><br>
        <br>Here are some launches and updates from this past week that caught my attention:</p>
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<li>AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions &mdash; AWS launched Security Hub Extended, a plan that simplifies procurement, deployment, and integration of full-stack enterprise security solutions including 7AI, Britive, CrowdStrike, Cyera, Island, Noma, Okta, Oligo, Opti, Proofpoint, SailPoint, Splunk, Upwind, and Zscaler. With AWS as the seller of record, customers benefit from pre-negotiated pay-as-you-go pricing, a single bill, no long-term commitments, unified security operations within Security Hub, and unified Level 1 support for AWS Enterprise Support customers.</li>
<li>Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference &mdash; AWS launched Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video for mobile and social platforms in real time. The service uses AI-powered cropping to create vertical formats optimized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and automatically extracts highlight clips with 6-10 second latency. Beta testing showed large media companies achieved 34% or more savings on AI-powered live video workflows.&nbsp;Deep dive into the Fox Sports implementation.</li>
<li>MediaConvert introduces new video probe API &mdash; AWS Elemental MediaConvert introduced a free Probe API for quick metadata analysis of media files, reading header metadata to return codec specifications, pixel formats, and color space details without processing video content.</li>
<li>OpenAI-compatible Projects API in Amazon Bedrock &mdash; Projects API provides application-level isolation for your generative AI workloads using OpenAI-compatible APIs in the Mantle inference engine in Amazon Bedrock. You can organize and manage your AI applications with improved access control, cost tracking, and observability across your organization.</li>
<li>Amazon Location Service introduces LLM Context &mdash; Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as a Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and agent skill in the open Agent Skills format, improving code accuracy and accelerating feature implementation for location-based capabilities.</li>
<li>Amazon EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now open source &mdash; The Amazon EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now open source on GitHub, allowing visibility into implementation, customization, and community contributions.</li>
<li>AWS AppConfig integrates with New Relic &mdash; AWS AppConfig launched integration with New Relic Workflow Automation for automated, intelligent rollbacks during feature flag deployments, reducing detection-to-remediation time from minutes to seconds.</li>
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<p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What&rsquo;s New with AWS page.</p>
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        <br>Here are some additional posts and resources that you might find interesting:</p>
<p><strong>From AWS community</strong><br>
        <br>Here are my personal favorite posts from AWS community:</p>
<p><strong>Upcoming AWS events</strong><br>
        <br>Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:</p>
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<li>AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2026 &mdash; Join us at our AWS sessions, booths, demos, ancillary events in NVIDIA GTC 2026 on March 16 &ndash; 19, 2026 in San Jose. You can receive 20% off event passes through AWS and request a 1:1 meeting at GTC.</li>
<li>AWS Summits &mdash; Join AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person events where you can explore emerging cloud and AI technologies, learn best practices, and network with industry peers and experts. Upcoming Summits include Paris (April 1), London (April 22), and Bengaluru (April 23&ndash;24).</li>
<li>AWS Community Days &mdash; Community-led conferences where content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders. Upcoming events include JAWS Days in Tokyo (March 7), Chennai (March 7), Slovakia (March 11), and Pune (March 21).</li>
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<p>Browse here for upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events, startup events, and developer-focused events.</p>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-100247 size-large alignright" src="https://thenokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/aws-weekly-roundup-project-rainier-online-amazon-nova-amazon-bedrock-and-more-november-3-2025.jpg" alt width="1024" height="606">Last week I met Jeff Barr at the AWS Shenzhen Community Day. Jeff shared stories about how builders around the world are experimenting with generative AI and encouraged local developers to keep pushing ideas into real prototypes. Many attendees stayed after the sessions to discuss model grounding, evaluation, and how to bring generative AI into real applications.</p>
<p>Community builders showcased creative Kiro-themed demos, AI-powered IoT projects, and student-led experiments. It was inspiring to see new developers, students, and long-time Amazon Web Services (AWS) community leaders connecting over shared curiosity and excitement for generative AI innovation.</p>
<p>Project Rainier, one of the world&rsquo;s most powerful operational AI supercomputers is now online. Built by AWS in close collaboration with Anthropic, Project Rainier brings nearly 500,000 AWS custom-designed Trainium2 chips into service using a new Amazon Elastic Compute (Amazon EC2) UltraServer and EC2 UltraCluster architecture designed for high-bandwidth, low-latency model training at hyperscale.</p>
<p>Anthropic is already training and running inference for Claude on Project Rainier, and is expected to scale to more than one million Trainium2 chips across direct usage and Amazon Bedrock by the end of 2025. For architecture details, deployment insights, and behind-the-scenes video of an UltraServer coming online, refer to AWS activates Project Rainier for the full announcement.</p>
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<li>Amazon Nova &ndash; Adds Web Grounding as a new built-in tool for real-time, citation-based web retrieval, and introduces Multimodal Embeddings, a state-of-the-art model that produces unified cross-modal vectors, improving accuracy for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search. Both capabilities are available in Amazon Bedrock.</li>
<li>Amazon Bedrock &ndash; TwelveLabs&rsquo; Marengo Embed 3.0 is now available for long-form, video-native multimodal embeddings across video, images, audio, and text with improved domain accuracy. Stability AI Image Services added four new tools: Outpaint, Fast Upscale, Conservative Upscale, and Creative Upscale for high-resolution upscaling, outpainting, and controlled variations.</li>
<li>Model Context Protocol (MCP) Proxy for AWS &ndash; Now generally available as a client-side proxy that connects MCP clients to remote AWS hosted MCP servers using SigV4 authentication. It works with tools like Amazon Q Developer CLI, Kiro, Cursor, and Strands Agents, and provides safety controls such as read-only mode, retry logic, and logging. The Proxy is open-source. You can visit&nbsp;the AWS GitHub repository to view the installation and configuration options and start connecting with remote AWS MCP servers.</li>
<li>Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) &ndash; Now supports built-in linear and canary deployment strategies, providing gradual traffic shifting, canary testing with small production slices, deployment bake times for safe rollback, and Amazon CloudWatch alarm-based automated rollbacks.</li>
<li>Amazon DocumentDB &ndash; Adds a new query planner in Amazon DocumentDB 5.0 that delivers up to 10 times faster query performance with more optimal index plans and support for <code>$neq</code>, <code>$nin</code>, and nested <code>$elementMatch</code>, and can be enabled through cluster parameter groups without downtime.</li>
<li>Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) &ndash; You can now use new per-volume CloudWatch metrics, VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput, to get minute-level visibility into average IOPS and throughput for EBS volumes on AWS Nitro based instances. These metrics help monitor performance trends, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and optimize provisioned capacity.</li>
<li>Amazon Kinesis Data Streams &ndash; You can now send individual records up to 10 MiB, a tenfold increase from the previous limit, helping support larger Internet of Things (IoT), change data capture (CDC), and AI-generated payloads.<br>Amazon SageMaker &ndash; Unified Studio search results now provide additional search context, showing matched metadata fields and ranking rationale to improve transparency and relevance in data discovery.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>Additional updates</u></strong><br>Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that I found interesting:</p>
<ul>
<li>Building production-ready 3D pipelines with AWS VAMS and 4D Pipeline &ndash; A reference architecture for creating scalable, cloud-based 3D asset pipelines using AWS Visual Asset Management System (VAMS) and 4D Pipeline, supporting ingest, validation, collaborative review, and distribution across games, visual effects (VFX), and digital twins.</li>
<li>Amazon Location Service introduces new API key restrictions &ndash; You can now create granular security policies with bundle IDs to restrict API access to specific mobile applications, improving access control and strengthening application-level security across location-based workloads.</li>
<li>AWS Clean Rooms launches advanced SQL configurations &ndash; A performance enhancement for Spark SQL workloads that supports runtime customization of Spark properties and compute sizes, plus table caching for faster and more cost-efficient processing of large analytical queries.</li>
<li>AWS Serverless MCP Server adds event source mappings (ESM) tools &ndash; A capability for event-driven serverless applications that supports configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of AWS Lambda event source mappings, including AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template generation and diagnostic insights.</li>
<li>AWS IoT Greengrass releases an AI agent context pack &ndash; A development accelerator for cloud-connected edge applications that provides ready-to-use instructions, examples, and templates, helping teams integrate generative AI tools such as Amazon Q for faster software creation, testing, and fleet-wide deployment. It&rsquo;s available as open source on the GitHub repository.</li>
<li>AWS Step Functions introduces a new metrics dashboard &ndash; You can now view usage, billing, and performance metrics at the state-machine level for standard and express workflows in a single console view, improving visibility and troubleshooting for distributed applications.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>Upcoming AWS events</u></strong><br>Check your calendars so that you can sign up for these upcoming events:</p>
<ul>
<li>AWS Builder Loft &ndash; A community tech space in San Francisco where you can learn from expert sessions, join hands-on workshops, explore AI and emerging technologies, and collaborate with other builders to accelerate their ideas. Browse the upcoming sessions and join the events that interest you.</li>
<li>AWS Community Days &ndash; Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by experienced AWS users and industry leaders from around the world: Hong Kong (November 2), Abuja (November 8), Cameroon (November 8), and Spain (November 15).</li>
<li>AWS Skills Center Seattle 4th Anniversary Celebration &ndash; A free, public event on November 20 with a keynote, learned panels, recruiter insights, raffles, and virtual participation options.</li>
</ul>
<p>Join the AWS Builder Center to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community. Browse here for upcoming in-person events, developer-focused events, and events for startups.</p>
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<p>&ndash; Betty</p>
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<p>Today, Amazon Location Service released 17 new and enhanced APIs that expand and improve capabilities for the Routes, Places, and Maps functionalities, creating a more cohesive and streamlined experience for developers. By introducing enhanced features and offering simplified migration, these updates make Amazon Location Service more accessible and useful for a wide range of applications.</p>
<p>You can now access advanced route optimization, toll cost calculations, GPS traces snapping, and a variety of map styles with static and dynamic rendering options, and perform proximity-based search and predictive suggestions, with rich, detailed information on points of interest.</p>
<p>At Amazon, the vast majority of our roadmaps are driven by customer feedback. Many customers building applications with Amazon Location Service have shared that they need purpose-built APIs and more granular details, such as contact information and business hours, when working with location-based data. Although the current API set has provided valuable tools for many customers, developers have expressed a desire for additional capabilities, such as detailed route planning, proximity-based searches, additional places details, and static map images. These new APIs address these requests and provide a more comprehensive, out-of-the-box location solution.</p>
<p><span><strong>New and enhanced capabilities</strong></span><br>Today&rsquo;s launch introduces 10 updated APIs and seven entirely new APIs, responding directly to your feedback. Each service&mdash;Routes, Places, and Maps&mdash;receives specific enhancements designed to support a broader range of use cases.</p>
<div class="internal-linking-related-contents"><a href="https://thenokiablog.com/html-element-select-envato-tuts/" class="template-2"><span class="cta">Read more</span><span class="postTitle">HTML Element: select | Envato Tuts+</span></a></div><p><strong>Routes</strong><br>The Amazon Location Routes API now supports advanced route planning and customization options, allowing users to:</p>
<ul>
<li>CalculateIsolines to identify service areas within specific travel time, or distance</li>
<li>OptimizeWaypoints to determine the most efficient sequence of waypoints, helping to minimize either travel time or distance</li>
<li>Calculate Toll Costs to provide precise cost estimates for routes involving toll roads</li>
<li>SnapToRoads, to enable precise matching of GPS traces by snapping points to the road network</li>
</ul>
<p>With these capabilities, you can design more accurate and dynamic route experiences for your users. For example, a logistics company could optimize driver routes in real-time, factoring in live traffic and minimizing travel costs for deliveries.</p>
<p><strong>Maps</strong><br>The updated Amazon Location Maps API includes more purpose-built map styles crafted by skilled cartographers. These map styles offer professional designs that accelerate time to market and eliminate the need for custom map creation. Additionally, the Static Map Image feature allows developers to integrate static maps within applications, reducing the need for continuous data streaming and improving performance in use cases where interactivity isn&rsquo;t necessary.</p>
<p>Key features of the Maps API include:</p>
<ul>
<li>GetTile, to download a tile from a tileset, with a specified X, Y, and Z axis values</li>
<li>GetStyleDescriptor, to return information about the style</li>
<li>GetStaticMap, which enables the rendering of non-interactive maps for reporting or visualization purposes</li>
</ul>
<div class="internal-linking-related-contents"><a href="https://thenokiablog.com/skipping-the-whm-getting-started-wizard-cpanel-blog/" class="template-2"><span class="cta">Read more</span><span class="postTitle">Skipping the WHM Getting Started Wizard | cPanel Blog</span></a></div><p><strong>Places</strong><br>The Amazon Location Places API enhancements allow more detailed search capabilities, addressing requests for increased granularity in location data. The new capabilities include:</p>
<ul>
<li>SearchNearby and Autocomplete, which support proximity-based queries and enable predictive text features for better user experiences</li>
<li>Enhanced business details with categories such as Business Hours, Contact Information, and additional attributes for points of interest</li>
</ul>
<p>These features are especially useful for applications where users need detailed information about nearby locations, such as food delivery services or retail applications. Imagine that a customer opens a food delivery application, searches for nearby restaurants using <code>SearchNearby</code>, and retrieves restaurant details such as business hours and contact information to confirm availability. Once multiple delivery orders are assigned to a driver, the application uses <code>OptimizeWaypoints</code> to suggest the most efficient route for pickups and deliveries. As the driver follows the route, <code>SnaptoRoads</code> provides precise visualization of their location, enhancing the customer&rsquo;s real-time tracking experience.</p>
<p><span><strong>Enhanced Location Service in action</strong></span><br>Calling the API is straightforward. You can use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), one of our AWS SDKs, or the plain REST API. However, displaying the information on a map in a web or mobile app requires some additional setup. Although the process is well documented, it&rsquo;s too detailed to cover fully here. In this demo, I&rsquo;ll focus on using the API.</p>
<p>Amazon Location Service allows API calls to be authenticated in two ways: through AWS API authentication (AWS Sigv4 authentication) or through API keys. API keys can be more convenient for developers of mobile applications where the end user is not authenticated or when integrating with Amazon Cognito is not feasible. This is the recommended authentication method for front-end applications.</p>
<div class="internal-linking-related-contents"><a href="https://thenokiablog.com/gone-phishing-cpanel-blog/" class="template-2"><span class="cta">Read more</span><span class="postTitle">Gone Phishing | cPanel Blog</span></a></div><p>To demonstrate the versatility of the APIs and how easily you can integrate inside your applications, I use a combination of the AWS CLI, cURL, and a graphical REST API client for each step of the demo.</p>
<p><strong>Step 1: Create an API key</strong></p>
<p>First, I create an API key for my application using the AWS CLI. You can also manage API keys in the AWS Management Console.</p>
<pre><code class="lang-bash">REGION=eu-central-1
KEYNAME=geo-key-seb

aws location create-key --region ${REGION} --key-name ${KEYNAME} --restrictions 
AllowActions="geo-routes:*","geo-places:*","geo-maps:*",
AllowResources="arn:aws:geo-routes:${REGION}::provider/default",
"arn:aws:geo-places:${REGION}::provider/default",
"arn:aws:geo-maps:${REGION}::provider/default" 
--no-expiry 

{
    "Key": "v1.public.ey...cy",
    "KeyArn": "arn:aws:geo:eu-central-1:02345678901:api-key/geo-key-seb",
    "KeyName": "geo-key-seb",
    "CreateTime": "2024-09-29T09:35:53.115000+00:00"
}</code></pre>
<p>This command generates the API key, which I can now use to call Amazon Location APIs.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2: Get geographic coordinates</strong></p>
<p>Next, I use <code>cURL</code> to retrieve the geographic coordinates (a longitude and latitude) for the city center of Lille, France, by calling <code>GeoCode</code>&nbsp;and passing an address in the <code>QueryText</code> parameter.</p>
<pre><code class="lang-bash">$ curl --silent -X "POST" "https://places.geo.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/v2/geocode?key=v1.public.ey...cy" 
       -d $'{ "QueryText": "Grand Place, Lille, France" }' 
 
{"ResultItems":[{"PlaceId":"AQ...5U","PlaceType":"Street","Title":"Grand'Place, 59800 Lille, France",
                 "Address":{"Label":"Grand'Place, 59800 Lille, France",
                 "Country":{"Code2":"FR","Code3":"FRA","Name":"France"},
                 "Region":{"Code":"HDF","Name":"Hauts-de-France"},"SubRegion":{"Name":"Nord"},
                 "Locality":"Lille","District":"Centre","PostalCode":"59800",
                 "Street":"Grand'Place","StreetComponents":[{"BaseName":"Grand'Place","Language":"fr"}]},
                 "Position":[3.06361,50.63706],
                 "MapView":[3.0628,50.6367,3.06413,50.63729],
                 "MatchScores":{"Overall":1,"Components":{"Address":{"Country":1,"Locality":1,"Intersection":[1]}}}}]}</code></pre>
<p>This returns several data points, including the GPS coordinates for the city center: [3.06361, 50.63706].</p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Search for nearby places</strong></p>
<p>Using the coordinates retrieved, I use a REST API client tool to call the <code>SearchNearby</code> API to find places of interest around Lille&rsquo;s city center.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-88415" src="https://thenokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/announcing-new-apis-for-amazon-location-service-routes-places-and-maps-1.png" alt="Amazon Location Service - API call for places of interest" width="3456" height="2042"></p>
<p>On the right side of the screen, I can read the API response: a list of nearby places, such as restaurants, banks, and parking areas. I can further refine the search by specifying categories or restricting the search area.</p>
<p>The <code>SearchNearby</code> API accepts an optional <code>Filter</code> parameter that helps you restrict the search within a bounding box or to include or exclude business chains, categories, countries, or food types.</p>
<pre><code class="lang-json">"Filter": {
   "BoundingBox": [ number ],
   "ExcludeBusinessChains": [ "string" ],
   "ExcludeCategories": [ "string" ],
   "ExcludeFoodTypes": [ "string" ],
   "IncludeBusinessChains": [ "string" ],
   "IncludeCategories": [ "string" ],
   "IncludeCountries": [ "string" ],
   "IncludeFoodTypes": [ "string" ]
},</code></pre>
<p>In my search for nearby points of interest, one of the results returned was a McDonald&rsquo;s, a well-known international reference &#127828;.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-88416" src="https://thenokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/announcing-new-apis-for-amazon-location-service-routes-places-and-maps-2.png" alt="Amazon Location Service - SearchNearby result" width="800" height="360"></p>
<p><strong>Step 4: Get driving directions</strong></p>
<p>Finally, I use the AWS CLI to calculate driving directions between two city centers: Brussels, Belgium, and Lille, France.</p>
<pre><code class="lang-bash">aws location calculate-routes    
    --origin 4.35278 50.84687      
    --destination 3.06361 50.63706 
    --key "v1.public.ey...cy"</code></pre>
<p>The response includes a polyline for rendering the path on a map and a step-by-step list of driving directions.</p>
<pre><code class="lang-json">...
          "TravelMode": "Car",
          "Type": "Vehicle",
          "VehicleLegDetails": {
            "TravelSteps": [
              {
                "Duration": 15,
                "Distance": 75,
                "ExitNumber": [],
                "GeometryOffset": 0,
                "Type": "Depart"
              },
              {
                "Duration": 10,
                "Distance": 8,
                "ExitNumber": [],
                "GeometryOffset": 2,
                "Type": "Turn",
                "TurnStepDetails": {
                  "Intersection": [],
                  "SteeringDirection": "Right",
                  "TurnIntensity": "Typical"
                }
              },
...</code></pre>
<p><strong>Step 5: Displaying the driving directions on a map</strong></p>
<p>To visualize the route on a map, I use the MapLibre library, which is a rendering engine for displaying maps in web and mobile applications. Following the Amazon Location Service Developer Guide, I built a basic app to display the route.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-88518 size-full" src="https://thenokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/announcing-new-apis-for-amazon-location-service-routes-places-and-maps-3.png" alt="Amazon Location Service - Map with route" width="1916" height="856"></p>
<p>In addition to MapLibre, you can use&nbsp;AWS Amplify to integrate and display Amazon Location data in your applications.</p>
<p><span><strong>Getting started</strong></span><br>With these new and updated APIs, Amazon Location Service offers a more comprehensive suite of mapping and location data for your business needs. These will help to accelerate your development lifecyle by increasing developers&rsquo; agility and scalability.</p>
<p>To get started, explore the updated Amazon Location Service Developer Guide&nbsp;and begin integrating these features today. You can also visit the Amazon Location Service page to learn more or try out the APIs with your favorite AWS SDKs to see how they can enhance your applications.</p>
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