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AWS Direct Connect Support for AWS Transit Gateway is now Available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.
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Introducing AWS IQ
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019AWS IQ is a new service that enables customers to quickly find, engage, and pay AWS Certified third-party experts for on-demand project work. AWS IQ offers video-conferencing, contract management, secure collaboration, and integrated billing.
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Amazon MQ introduces vertical scaling for message brokers
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019You can now right-size your message broker by modifying the instance type on demand. Instance type changes can be applied immediately or during the next maintenance window. Vertically scaling your message broker provides flexibility to adjust for seasonal changes and increase capacity as your application grows.
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Amazon EKS Adds Support for G4 Instance
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports adding Amazon EC2 G4 instances as worker nodes to all clusters in regions where G4 is available.
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AWS Client VPN now supports Multi Factor Authentication for Active Directory
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019You can now enable Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) capabilities for your users using AWS Client VPN and Active Directory. Enterprises can now create a second layer of defense by prompting the user for additional factor, such as verifying a push notification or an email OTP.
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Amazon EC2 AMD Instances are Now Available in Additional Regions
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5a, M5ad, R5a, R5ad, and T3a instances are available in additional regions.
- M5a and R5a instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (London) Regions
- M5ad and R5ad instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney, Singapore), Europe (Paris, London, Ireland, Frankfurt), US West (N. California) Regions
- T3a instances are now available in Europe (Paris) Region
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AWS Fargate now available in EU (Stockholm), EU (Paris) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them.
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Now use PrivateLink Endpoint Policies to better control Amazon ECR access
Posted On: Sep 30, 2019Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports PrivateLink Endpoint Policies, a capability that enables customers to better control access to Amazon ECR repositories and images using private endpoints. Previously customers were not able to explicitly define policies to deny or allow access based on IAM resource policies, but now customers can define granular, API level access to container image repositories.
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Amazon ECS supports Automated Draining for Spot Instances running ECS Services
Posted On: Sep 27, 2019Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) supports Automated Spot Instance Draining, a new capability that reduces service interruptions due to Spot termination for ECS workloads. This feature will enable ECS customers to safely manage any interruptions of ECS tasks running on Spot instances due to termination of the underlying EC2 Spot instance.
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New Quick Starts deploy JFrog Artifactory on AWS
Posted On: Sep 27, 2019Three new Quick Starts deploy JFrog Artifactory on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in 30-45 minutes. The available options for deployment use your choice of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).
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AWS IoT Core Introduces Beta Feature To Simplify Device Certificate Registration
Posted On: Sep 27, 2019AWS IoT is announcing a new feature for AWS IoT Core called “Multi-Account Registration,” which is now available in beta. The new feature allows customers to quickly move devices between their AWS accounts by specifying the account information when the device connects to AWS IoT Core. Customers opting to use this feature will use Server Name Indication (SNI) strings sent by a device and as part of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) session to route to the correct AWS IoT endpoint.
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Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core now includes Mono
Posted On: Sep 27, 2019The Amazon Linux 2 AMI with .NET Core has been updated to include Mono, an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework. The AMI comes pre-configured with .NET Core 2.2 (with Long Term Support), Mono 5.18, PowerShell Core 6.2, and the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI).
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AWS Glue now supports wheel files as dependencies for Glue Python Shell jobs
Posted On: Sep 26, 2019Starting today, you can add python dependencies to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs using wheel files, enabling you to take advantage of new capabilities of the wheel packaging format. Previously, you were only able to add python dependencies using egg files to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs.
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Amazon SageMaker Neo is now Available in 12 additional Regions
Posted On: Sep 26, 2019Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in 12 additional regions - Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California). Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.
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Amazon Polly Voices available in Windows applications
Posted On: Sep 26, 2019Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the release of Amazon Polly for Windows, an open-source engine that allows users to take advantage of Amazon Polly voices in SAPI-compliant Windows applications.
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AWS Cloud Map Available in Three Additional AWS Regions
Posted On: Sep 25, 2019AWS Cloud Map is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions.
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AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is Now Available in Six Additional Regions
Posted On: Sep 25, 2019AWS Direct Connect support for AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. With this feature, customers can connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) in multiple AWS Regions to their on-premises networks using 1/2/5/10 Gbps AWS Direct Connect connections.
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Amazon RDS for Oracle X1 and X1e instances are now available in additional regions
Posted On: Sep 25, 2019Starting today, Amazon RDS for Oracle db.x1 and db.x1e instance classes are now available in additional regions.
- db.x1 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions.
- db.x1e instances are now available in the US East (Ohio), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions.
- db.x1 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions.
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AWS Well-Architected Tool now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region and localized into Japanese
Posted On: Sep 25, 2019AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region and the tool has been localized into Japanese. AWS Well-Architected Tool helps you review your workloads against AWS architectural best practices, and provides guidance on improving your cloud architectures.
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AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management Now Available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region
Posted On: Sep 25, 2019AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management are now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region.
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Amazon Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL Now Supports Data API
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019Amazon Aurora Serverless PostgreSQL can now be accessed using the built-in Data API, enabling you to access Aurora Serverless with web services-based applications. In particular, you can access Aurora easily from AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, and AWS Cloud9.
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Now use AWS Systems Manager to execute complex Ansible playbooks
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019Today, AWS Systems Manager introduces the ability to execute Ansible playbooks directly from GitHub or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) through Systems Manager Run Command or State Manager. This lets you use your existing Ansible automations and to benefit from the control and safety provided by Systems Manager.
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AWS Storage Gateway’s Tape Gateway is now available in South America (Sao Paulo)
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019Tape Gateway, a member of the AWS Storage Gateway service family, is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.
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Amazon ElastiCache announces online configuration changes for all planned operations with the latest Redis 5.0.5
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019Amazon ElastiCache for Redis improves availability of auto-failover clusters during all planned operations. You can now scale your cluster, upgrade the Redis engine version and apply patches and maintenance updates while the cluster stays online and continues serving incoming requests. These availability improvements are included along with the latest Redis version 5.0.5. For a full list of improvements in Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 5.0.5.
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AWS Limit Monitor Now Supports vCPU-Based On-Demand Instance Limit Monitoring
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019AWS has updated the AWS Limit Monitor, a solution that automatically provisions the services necessary to proactively track resource usage and send notifications as you approach limits. The solution now leverages Service Quotas to enable you to monitor usage against limits.
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AWS Marketplace now supports Paid Container Software on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 230,000 active customers, has announced paid container software for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), adding to the selection of existing software for EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Fargate. You can run paid container software from AWS Marketplace on EKS clusters running version 1.1.3 or later.
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vCPU-based On-Demand Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019We recently announced Amazon EC2’s vCPU-based On-Demand Instance limits to simplify the limit management experience for EC2 customers. Starting today, you can opt in to using vCPU-based limits from the Amazon EC2 console.
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Amazon Transcribe now Supports AWS KMS Encryption
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add a speech-to-text capability to your applications. Up until now, Amazon Transcribe used Amazon S3-SSE to encrypt transcripts. Starting today, you can use your own encryption keys from the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt transcripts placed in your S3 bucket. Doing so provides users added flexibility and control over how to secure their output transcripts. For those who prefer to continue using the default S3-SSE encryption method, that will still be an available option.
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AWS DataSync supports all Amazon S3 storage classes, more data controls
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019When using AWS DataSync you can now directly transfer data into any Amazon S3 storage class, control overwrites for existing files or objects, and configure additional data verification checks.
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AWS Amplify Console provides downloadable access logs for hosted web apps
Posted On: Sep 24, 2019Amplify Console now allows users to download access logs for their CDN distribution. Access logs contain detailed information about every user request received by the CDN. Access logs are always available to download in a CSV format for any two week period.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Custom Batch Window for Kinesis and DynamoDB Event Sources
Posted On: Sep 23, 2019AWS Lambda now supports Batch Window, a new feature that allows developers to fine tune Lambda invocation for cost optimization. This feature gives you additional control on batching behavior when processing data from Kinesis data streams and DynamoDB streams.
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Amazon Redshift announces automatic workload management and query priorities
Posted On: Sep 20, 2019Amazon Redshift now makes it easy to maximize query throughput and get consistent performance for your most demanding analytics workloads. Automatic workload management (WLM) uses machine learning to dynamically manage memory and concurrency helping maximize query throughput. In addition, you can now easily set the priority of your most important queries, even when hundreds of queries are being submitted.
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Introducing new Amazon EC2 Windows Server AMIs for DISA STIG compliance
Posted On: Sep 20, 2019Amazon EC2 is pleased to announce the release of new Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for Microsoft Windows Server to help you meet the compliance standards of the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG). These AMIs are pre-configured with a number of STIG standards to help you quickly get started with your deployments while meeting STIG compliance requirements.
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Introducing Amazon EC2 G4 Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, the Most Cost-effective GPU Platform for Machine Learning Inference and Graphics Intensive Applications
Posted On: Sep 20, 2019Today, we are announcing that the next generation GPU powered instance family, Amazon EC2 G4 GPU instances, are generally available.
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Amazon CloudFront announces new Edge location in Shenzhen, China
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019Details: Amazon CloudFront announces the launch of a new CloudFront Edge (POP) location in Shenzhen, China. With this new POP operated by Ningxia Western Cloud Data Co. Ltd. (NWCD), CloudFront has 4 POPs in 4 cities across China. With this launch, viewers in Shenzhen would see an improvement of 62% in average latency when accessing content through CloudFront.
To view pricing for CloudFront China delivery, please refer to here. For developer guide, please refer here. To get started, log in to the AWS Management Console and start accelerating your content.
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AWS Glue now supports the ability to test your Glue ETL scripts on development endpoints using Apache Spark 2.4.3 and Python 3
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019AWS Glue has updated its Apache Spark infrastructure to support Apache Spark 2.4.3 (in addition to Apache Spark 2.2.1) for Glue scripts submitted on development endpoints. This enables you to take advantage of stability fixes and new features available in this version of Apache Spark.
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AWS IoT Greengrass 1.9.3 With Support for ARMv6 and New Machine Learning Connectors Now Available
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019AWS IoT Greengrass Core 1.9.3 is now available. With this release, AWS IoT Greengrass adds support for the ARMv6 architecture and new machine learning inference capabilities.
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Amazon Athena adds support for inserting data into a table using the results of a SELECT query or using a provided set of values
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019Amazon Athena now supports inserting new data to an existing table using the INSERT INTO statement.
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AWS CloudFormation updates for Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ElasticSearch, and more
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019You can now use CloudFormation templates to configure and provision additional features for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ElasticSearch Service(Amazon ES), and more AWS resources. CloudFormation periodically releases additional support, making it easier for developers to configure and provision AWS services.
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AWS Glue now provides the Apache Spark UI to monitor and troubleshoot Glue ETL jobs
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019Starting today, you can use the Apache Spark UI to monitor and inspect Glue ETL jobs. The Apache Spark UI provides a web interface to visualize a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) representing different stages in Glue ETL job execution, analyse Spark SQL query plans and check the event timeline of running or terminated Spark executors. The Spark UI can be used in conjunction with job metrics and continuous logging to monitor and troubleshoot complex Glue jobs. The Spark UI is available for both Glue ETL jobs and Glue Development Endpoints.
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AWS IoT Device Tester v 2.0 for AWS Greengrass is now available
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019AWS IOT Device Tester v 2.0 for AWS Greengrass is now available.
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AWS Elemental MediaConvert Now Supports IMSC 1.1 Captions
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports Internet Media Subtitles and Captions (IMSC) 1.1 text profile captions. IMSC is a file format that uses XML to describe text, timing, layout, and styling for subtitles and captions. MediaConvert can ingest IMSC text profile sidecar files and can read IMSC from IMF packages. IMSC text sources can be burned in as subtitles, converted to other text-based outputs such as SRT or WebVTT, or output as IMSC sidecar files. To learn more, please read the user guide.
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Amazon EKS Announces Support for the Amazon EFS CSI Driver
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) CSI driver is now supported by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). The EFS CSI driver makes it simple to configure elastic file storage for both EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on AWS using standard Kubernetes interfaces. Applications running in Kubernetes can use EFS file systems to share data between pods in a scale-out group, or with other applications running within or outside of Kubernetes. EFS can also help Kubernetes applications be highly available because all data written to EFS is written to multiple AWS Availability zones. If a Kubernetes pod is terminated and relaunched, the CSI driver will reconnect the EFS file system, even if the pod is relaunched in a different AWS Availability Zone.
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Amazon EC2 P3dn Instances are Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019Starting today, Amazon EC2 P3dn instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. P3dn instances were first introduced in December of 2018 and feature eight NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs with 32GB of GPU memory each, 100 Gbps networking, 96 Intel Skylake-based vCPUs, and 768 GB of system memory that expands the P3 portfolio on the top end for faster distributed machine learning (ML) training workloads.
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Announcing Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Sep 19, 2019Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) traffic mirroring will be available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated cloud regions, designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads for customers with U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements.
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Amazon API Gateway Simplifies Invoking Private APIs
Posted On: Sep 18, 2019Amazon API Gateway simplifies accessing private APIs by allowing you to associate one or more Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Endpoints to a private API. API Gateway will create and manage Route53 alias records necessary for easily invoking the Private APIs. With this feature, you can leverage Private APIs in web applications hosted within your VPCs.
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Amazon S3 introduces Same-Region Replication
Posted On: Sep 18, 2019Amazon S3 now supports automatic and asynchronous replication of newly uploaded S3 objects to a destination bucket in the same AWS Region. Amazon S3 Same-Region Replication (SRR) adds a new replication option to Amazon S3, building on S3 Cross-Region Replication (CRR) which replicates data across different AWS Regions. Together, SRR and CRR form Amazon S3 Replication to deliver enterprise-class replication features such as cross-account replication for protection against accidental deletion and replication to any Amazon S3 storage class, including S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive to create backups and long-term archives. With SRR, new objects uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket are configured for replication at the bucket, prefix, or object tag levels. Replicated objects can be owned by the same AWS account as the original copy or by different accounts, to protect from accidental deletion.
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AWS IoT Device Defender now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Posted On: Sep 18, 2019AWS IoT Device Defender is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.
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AWS Step Functions adds support for dynamic parallelism in workflows
Posted On: Sep 18, 2019AWS Step Functions now supports dynamic parallelism, so you can optimize the performance and efficiency of application workflows such as data processing and task automation. By running identical tasks in parallel, you can achieve consistent execution durations and improve utilization of resources to save on operating costs. Step Functions automatically scales resources in response to your input.
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Amazon EKS provides EKS-Optimized AMI metadata via SSM Parameters
Posted On: Sep 18, 2019Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to dynamically retrieve the latest EKS-Optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID when adding nodes to a cluster.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces WorkSpaces Restore to the Last Known Healthy State
Posted On: Sep 18, 2019We are excited to introduce the Amazon WorkSpaces restore feature that enables you to rollback your WorkSpace to its last known healthy state. The new feature can serve as an easy recovery option to mitigate the impact of inaccessible WorkSpaces caused by incompatible 3rd party updates on Workspaces.
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Amazon Elastic Inference Now Available In Amazon ECS Tasks
Posted On: Sep 17, 2019Amazon ECS supports attaching Amazon Elastic Inference accelerators to your containers to make running deep learning inference workloads more cost-effective. Amazon Elastic Inference allows you to attach just the right amount of GPU-powered acceleration to any Amazon EC2 or Amazon SageMaker instance, or ECS task, to reduce the cost of running deep learning inference by up to 75%.
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AWS Marketplace makes it easier to find solutions from the AWS Console
Posted On: Sep 17, 2019AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 4,800 solutions, announced a feature that makes it easier for you to find relevant third-party solutions directly in the AWS console. Now, third-party solutions from AWS Marketplace are automatically filtered and listed in the left hand navigation panel based on the AWS service console you’re in. This means that you see only Machine Learning models and algorithms in the Amazon SageMaker console. You can also use the new search bar or filtering options to look for specific solutions without leaving the console.
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Amazon EC2 I3en Instances are Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London) AWS Regions
Posted On: Sep 17, 2019Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (London) AWS Regions. I3en global availability now includes the Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio, AWS GovCloud), and US West (Oregon, N. California, AWS GovCloud) regions.
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Amazon EKS Supports Cluster Tagging
Posted On: Sep 16, 2019You can now add AWS tags to your Amazon EKS clusters. This makes it easy to control access to the EKS API for managing your clusters.
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Introducing NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB — Now in Preview
Posted On: Sep 16, 2019Today, AWS introduced NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB to help developers build scalable, high-performance data models and to simplify query development and testing. NoSQL Workbench is a free, client-side application available for Windows and macOS.
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AWS Elemental MediaStore Now Supports Stale Manifest Deletion
Posted On: Sep 13, 2019When using AWS Elemental MediaStore as your live streaming origin, you can now configure a Transient Data Policy on your container via the Object Lifecycle Policy API, which will remove an HLS manifest if it has not been recently updated. This enables players to automatically switch from a primary origin to a backup origin with no additional coding or setup. Customers with redundant encoding pipelines previously had to perform complicated configuration downstream of the origin to ensure manifest freshness. With Transient Data Policy, customers can leverage native HLS behavior to perform origin switch-over.
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AWS Storage Gateway adds Amazon CloudWatch logging and metrics for File Gateway
Posted On: Sep 13, 2019File Gateway, part of the AWS Storage Gateway service, now publishes health and performance logs and metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, providing you with continuous visibility into operations of your gateway in order to quickly respond to changes in your workload.
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Lumberyard Beta 1.21 Now Available
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019Today, we're excited to release Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.21, which has over 70 improvements, fixes, and features for designers, animators, programmers, and more. Click here to download Lumberyard 1.21 today.
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Amazon Athena is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region.
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Introducing the Smart Product Solution
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019The smart product solution provides secure product connectivity to the AWS Cloud, and includes capabilities for local computing within products, sophisticated event rules, and data processing and storage. The solution features fast and robust data ingestion; highly reliable and durable storage of product telemetry data; simple, scalable big data services for analyzing the data; and global messaging and application services.
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Amazon QuickSight Launches Level Aware Calculations, Larger SPICE Data Sets, and More
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019Amazon QuickSight launches Level Aware Calculations that allow you to derive advanced analytical insights independent of aggregations and filters applied on your charts. These are calculations that can be computed at a desired level in the overall query evaluation order of QuickSight. You can answer questions such as “How many customers have made one, two, three orders?”, “What is the contribution of each industry to the entire company’s profit irrespective of the filters applied?”. See the blog here to get started with Level Aware Aggregations.
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WorkMail Message Flow SDK
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019Today, Amazon WorkMail announced that you can access full email message content from within your AWS Lambda functions when using Email Flow Rules. With this, you can build powerful email processing, automation, and analytics applications; for example, you can easily add email correspondence to a 3rd party productivity tool such as SalesForce or Asana whenever an email is received, or analyze your organization’s email traffic to spot trends. Email messages can be accessed on both incoming and outgoing email.
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AWS Elemental MediaConnect Now Supports RIST Protocol
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports the Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) standard. Using the RIST protocol, you can transport live video with low latency and high resilience to packet loss. This additional transport option for MediaConnect offers you more flexibility for contributing broadcast streams to the AWS Cloud for processing, and for bringing streams back on-premises using any device that supports RIST.
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Elastic Load Balancing: Network Load Balancers now support multiple TLS certificates using Server Name Indication (SNI)
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019We are pleased to announce support for multiple TLS certificates on Network Load Balancers using Server Name Indication (SNI). You can now host multiple secure applications, each with its own TLS certificate, on a single load balancer listener. This allows SaaS applications and hosting services to run behind the same load balancer, improving your service security posture, and simplifying management and operations.
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Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Rekognition
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Rekognition from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. Amazon Rekognition lets customers easily add intelligent image and video analysis to their applications. AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services, without ever leaving the Amazon network.
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AWS Service Catalog Announces Budget Visibility
Posted On: Sep 12, 2019AWS Service Catalog now provides budget visibility on your portfolios and products by integrating with AWS Budgets. With this feature you can create and associate budgets with portfolios and products and track your spend. Portfolio and product budget creation is simplified using TagOptions and AutoTags, providing administrators with visibility into the budget and month-to-date spend. To get started, activate your tags and create your budget in AWS Budgets, then associate that budget to your portfolio or product in AWS Service Catalog. This feature is available in all commercial regions where AWS Service Catalog and AWS Budgets are available.
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NXP i.MX-RT1060, i.MX-RT1050, and Kinetis K64 are Qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019Three new development boards from NXP are now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using development kits available from NXP.
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AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management Now Available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region.
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Amazon FreeRTOS Now Available in the Americas (São Paulo), Americas (Montreal), Americas (Northern California), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019Amazon FreeRTOS is now available in the Americas (São Paulo), Americas (Montreal), Americas (Northern California), Europe (Paris), and Europe (Stockholm) regions.
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Now Add Additional Metadata to Amazon VPC Flow Logs
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019You can now include additional metadata in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs to better understand network flows. VPC flow logs enable you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. You can use VPC flow logs to troubleshoot network connectivity issues, monitor VPC traffic, and identify network threats.
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Amazon SageMaker Now Supports More Refined Access Control using Amazon SageMaker-specific Condition Keys
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019Amazon SageMaker now enables better control and access using Amazon SageMaker-specific condition keys. You can use these new keys in the Condition element of an Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy to further refine the conditions under which the policy statement applies.
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AWS Marketplace Makes It Easier to Deploy Lambda Functions with AMIs
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with over 4,800 software solutions, has announced that customers can now deploy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and Lambda functions together using AWS CloudFormation with just a few clicks.
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Amazon GuardDuty Now Available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in the Middle East (Bahrain) region to help protect your AWS accounts and workloads.
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New Quick Start deploys clickstream analytics on the AWS Cloud
Posted On: Sep 11, 2019This Quick Start builds a clickstream analytics solution on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in about 30 minutes. It integrates AWS services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight.
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AWS App Mesh now supports retry policies
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019AWS App Mesh now supports adding retries to traffic between services. With this feature, you can add resilience to your application with essentially no change to application code. This is useful in applications where failed requests can be retried without any negative consequences, shielding users from transient issues
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Amazon SNS Now Supports the New apns-push-type Header Field in Apple Push Notification Service
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now supports the new apns-push-type header field for mobile notifications sent through the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). You can specify your APNs notification type as either alert or background by setting the content-available field in the JSON payload. Customers already using Amazon SNS for sending APNs alert notifications can continue to do so without making any changes.
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Updated Training Courses Help APN Partners Gain New Customer Opportunities
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019The AWS Training and Certification team has launched two updated courses designed to help partners solve real customer issues and provide training content that helps them grow their business. These courses teach APN Partners how to solve technical customer challenges and to have educated, productive discussions with their customers around SAP on AWS, and AWS for Microsoft workloads. AWS Training and Certification creates specific APN Partner courses such as these to help partners understand their customer’s needs and recommend the right AWS solutions at the right time
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Manage your Amazon EFS limits with AWS Service Quotas
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019You can now view and manage your limits for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) using AWS Service Quotas.
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Amazon Pinpoint Adds Support for iOS 13 and watchOS 6 Push Notifications
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019Amazon Pinpoint now supports the apns-push-type header field for push notifications that you send using the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). Apple recently announced that this new header would be required for all push notifications sent to iOS 13 and watchOS 6 devices. Beginning today, Amazon Pinpoint automatically adds this required header to all APNs messages that it sends. Amazon Pinpoint customers don't have to perform any additional steps to include the header.
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AWS Storage Gateway supports IBM Spectrum Protect on Linux, and 5 TiB tapes
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019Tape Gateway, a member of the AWS Storage Gateway service family, now supports IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) version 7.1.9 running on Linux. Tape Gateway also increases the maximum supported virtual tape size from 2.5 TiB to 5 TiB to help you store more data on a single tape and ease tape management.
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AWS Transfer for SFTP now supports logical directories for Amazon S3
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP) customers can now create logical directory structures mapped to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket paths. This feature enables customers to easily lock down SFTP users’ access to designated folders (commonly referred to as ‘chroot’), and simplifies complex folder structures for data distribution through SFTP without replicating files across multiple users. Amazon S3 bucket names and paths can now be hidden from AWS SFTP users, providing an additional level of privacy to meet security requirements.
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Announcing General Availability of Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
Posted On: Sep 10, 2019Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon QLDB, which is a fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log owned by a central trusted authority.
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AISPL Now Accepts Netbanking Payments
Posted On: Sep 9, 2019You can now pay your AISPL invoices using your Netbanking enabled bank account. AISPL supports Netbanking for 55 banks in India.
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AWS RoboMaker now supports connectivity to a simulation job
Posted On: Sep 9, 2019AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to develop, simulate, and deploy intelligent robotics applications, now supports the ability to interact with the applications in your simulation job, by connecting to your robot application or simulation application with port forwarding. A RoboMaker simulation job is a pairing of a robot application and a simulation application running in the cloud. When you configure port forwarding, traffic will be forwarded from the simulation job port to the application port. For example, customers can now connect to an HTTP server or ROS bridge running in their robot or simulation application, and debug or interact with their applications from a web browser running on their local laptops.
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Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables AWS Identity and Access Management Role support for Image Builders and Fleets
Posted On: Sep 9, 2019Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 enabled applying an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Role to your image builder and fleet resources. With this launch, you can make AWS API calls from an image builder or fleet streaming instance without having to specify the access key or secret access key. For example, you can download an installer from Amazon S3, execute an AWS Lambda function, or upload logs to an S3 bucket within your account without storing credentials on the image. AppStream 2.0 manages the credentials for you, and periodically rotates them on your behalf. To get started, see Using an IAM Role to Grant Permission to Applications and Scripts Running on AppStream 2.0 Streaming Instances in the AppStream 2.0 Administration Guide.
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Amazon EKS Now Supports the EBS CSI Driver
Posted On: Sep 9, 2019Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) CSI driver.
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AWS CodePipeline is Now Available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Posted On: Sep 9, 2019AWS CodePipeline, a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates, is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) Region.
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Amazon EC2 Fleet Functionality is Now Available via EC2 Auto Scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Posted On: Sep 6, 2019Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you provision and automatically scale instances across purchase options, Availability Zones (AZ), and instance families in a single Auto Scaling group (ASG), to optimize scale, performance, and cost. Now you can include Spot Instances with On-Demand and RIs in a single ASG, to save up to 90% on compute in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region.
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Amazon EC2 Fleet is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Posted On: Sep 6, 2019Amazon EC2 Fleet simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones and across On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase options. With a single API call, now you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and across purchase options to achieve desired scale, performance and cost.
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Memcached 1.5.16 now available on Amazon ElastiCache
Posted On: Sep 6, 2019Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached adds support for the latest Memcached open source version 1.5.16. This is a bug fix release with various improvements in stability and includes the fixes from engine versions 1.5.14 and 1.5.15.
For the full list of improvements in Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached 1.5.16 click here. Memcached 1.5.16 support is available in all AWS regions.
To get started on ElastiCache for Memcached cluster with engine version 1.5.16 log on to AWS Management Console.
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Amazon QuickSight Announces Favorites, Anomaly Alerts and More
Posted On: Sep 6, 2019Amazon QuickSight announces new features that improve organizing assets, send email alerts on anomalies, other improvements with anomaly detection capabilities and introduces Word Cloud chart type to represent categorical fields.
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Simplify your Spark application dependency management with Docker and Hadoop 3 with EMR 6.0.0 (Beta)
Posted On: Sep 6, 2019EMR 6.0.0 (Beta) allows users to define application and library dependencies using Docker images from Docker Hub and Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) using Spark 2.4.3 and Hadoop 3.1.0.
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Amazon EC2 Hibernation Now Available on Amazon Linux 2
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019Amazon EC2 expands Hibernation support for Amazon Linux 2. You can now hibernate newly launched EC2 Instances running Amazon Linux 2, in addition to Amazon Linux and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS.
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Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Now Supports Private Worker Throughput Worker Logs and Metrics
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now allows you to measure and track the throughput and efficiency of your own private workers performing data labeling. During the course of a labeling job, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth logs all private worker events (for example, when a labeler starts and submits a task) to Amazon CloudWatch. In addition, you can also use the built-in metrics feature of CloudWatch to measure and track throughput across a work team or for individual workers.
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Amazon SQS now Supports Amazon VPC Endpoints in the GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019AWS customers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now send messages to an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints, without using public IPs and without having to traverse the public internet.
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AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports additional queuing
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019Systems Manager Automation now supports queuing of up to 1,000 executions, enabling you to automate operational tasks on a larger scale.
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Amazon EC2 Partition Placement Groups are Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019Starting today, Amazon EC2 Partition Placement Groups are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
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AWS Snowball Edge is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019Customers in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region can now use AWS Snowball Edge to migrate up to petabytes of data into and out of Amazon S3, or to perform edge computing in disconnected, harsh and mobile environments, such as mines, factories or ships. Snowball Edge is a data transfer and edge computing service that uses secure, ruggedized devices.
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Use AWS Config Rules to Automatically Remediate Non-compliant Resources
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019AWS Config now includes automatic remediation capability with AWS Config rules. Automatic Remediation feature gives you the ability to associate remediation actions with AWS Config rules and the choice to execute them automatically to address non-compliant resources without manual intervention, thereby reducing time to remediate these resources.
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WorkDocs Drive enables Custom Drive Letter
Posted On: Sep 5, 2019Starting today, you can easily select any custom drive letter as well as mass deploy a specific drive letter for your organization. IT admins expect the flexibility to select a mounted drive letter based on their organization configurations, standards, or preferences. With Amazon WorkDocs Drive, you and your organization are offered not only the flexibility but also the control you need to specify a specific drive letter for your virtual WorkDocs Drive, thus empowering your organization to install and deploy WorkDocs Drive successfully to your organization’s standards and needs.
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Introducing Analyzing Text with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon Comprehend
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019Analyzing Text with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and Amazon Comprehend is an automated reference implementation that deploys a cost-effective, end-to-end solution for extracting meaningful insights from unstructured data such as customer calls, support tickets, and online customer feedback.
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Amazon EKS Adds Support to Assign IAM Permissions to Kubernetes Service Accounts
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019Amazon EKS now allows you to assign IAM permissions to Kubernetes service accounts. This gives you fine-grained, pod level access control when running clusters with multiple co-located services.
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AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019You can now use AWS Glue in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region
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Amazon VPC Sharing is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019Amazon Virtual Private Cloud sharing (VPC sharing) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. VPC sharing is also available in all commercial AWS Regions except in South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local), and China regions.
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Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge location in Portugal
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019Details: Amazon CloudFront announces its first Edge Location in Lisbon, Portugal. With this new Edge location, viewers in Portugal will now see up to a 60% improvement in latency when accessing content through CloudFront. CloudFront now has 190 Points of Presence in 72 cities across 33 countries. Learn more by reading our announcement.
For more information on CloudFront’s global infrastructure, go to CloudFront Features.
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New 3-Day Classroom Course: Advanced Developing on AWS
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019We are excited to announce the launch of Advanced Developing on AWS, a new three-day instructor-led classroom course. This advanced-level course teaches experienced developers how to successfully re-architect a legacy, on-premises monolithic application into a cloud-native, microservices-driven architecture using AWS services.
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Amazon Textract is now available in the EU (London) region
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019Amazon Textract is now available in the EU (London) region. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables.
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AWS Elemental MediaPackage Now Available in Europe (London) Region
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.
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Announcing Amazon EFS price reduction for Infrequent Access storage
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019You can now save even more money on your file storage - automatically - as your access patterns change when using the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) Infrequent Access storage class (EFS IA). Today we’re announcing a 44% reduction* in storage prices for EFS IA, one of the largest percentage price reductions in AWS history to date. EFS IA storage prices now start at $0.025/GB-month. Using the industry accepted estimate that 20% of data is actively used and 80% is infrequently accessed, this reduction leads to an effective EFS storage price of $0.08/GB-month (20% * $0.30/GB-month for files stored on EFS Standard + 80% * $0.025/GB-month for files stored on EFS IA = $0.08/GB-month)*.
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Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.14
Posted On: Sep 4, 2019Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.14.6 for all clusters.
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Amazon SageMaker now supports accelerated training with new, smaller, Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems
Posted On: Sep 3, 2019Amazon SageMaker customers can now use smaller Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems as the data source for training machine learning models. Until today, the smallest FSx for Lustre file system that could be created was 3.6 TBs. For training sets that are smaller than this size, customers can now create and use file systems as small as 1.2 TB.
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Amazon FSx for Lustre Reduces Minimum File System Size to 1.2 TBs
Posted On: Sep 3, 2019Amazon FSx for Lustre now allows you to create smaller high-performance file systems, reducing the minimum size from 3.6 TBs to 1.2 TBs. These smaller file systems enable you to use FSx for Lustre for an even broader set of workloads, including machine learning workloads with smaller training sets.
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AWS Serverless Application Repository is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Posted On: Sep 3, 2019The AWS Serverless Application Repository (SAR) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. This increases the availability of the service to a total of 18 AWS regions across Asia Pacific, North America, EU and South America. To see the complete list of where SAR is available today, please visit the AWS region table.