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AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) region. You can now deploy AppStream 2.0 for your active workloads, as well as to meet your disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity needs. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Design, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker built-in algorithms now provides four new Tabular Data Modeling Algorithms
Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning practitioners get started on training and deploying machine learning models quickly. These algorithms and models can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data including tabular, […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 placement groups now support host-level spread on AWS Outposts rack
Starting today, you can use Amazon EC2 placement groups to spread instances across distinct hosts on an AWS Outposts rack. Host-level spread placement groups distribute instances across hosts to reduce the likelihood of correlated failures, benefiting workloads that require High Availability (HA) like mission-critical databases. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon GameLift launches new console experience
Amazon GameLift now offers a new console experience that provides a more intuitive way to manage and scale your game servers on AWS. The redesigned console has new left-hand navigation that makes it easy to switch between various GameLift features such as managing and creating builds, scripts, fleets, FlexMatch, and includes helpful resource links like “Prepare […]

Azure – General availability: MATCH clause for Query
The MATCH clause is used in the Azure Digital Twins query language and allows you to specify which pattern should be followed while traversing relationships in the ADT graph. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS DataSync can now copy data to and from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS DataSync now supports copying files to and from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a storage service that allows customers to launch and run fully managed ONTAP file systems in the cloud. Using AWS DataSync, you can quickly and securely migrate your data from your on-premises storage, the edge, or other clouds to your FSx […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Level Aware Calculation (LAC)
Amazon QuickSight launches a suite of functions called Level Aware Calculations (LAC). The new calculation enables customers to specify the level of granularity that they want the window functions (in what window to partition by) or aggregate functions (at what level to group by) to be conducted. This brings flexibility and simplification for users to […]

GCP – CISO Perspectives: June 2022
June saw the in-person return of the RSA Conference in San Francisco, one of the largest cybersecurity enterprise conferences in the world. It was great to meet with so many of you at many of our Google Cloud events, at our panel hosted in partnership with Cyversity, and throughout the conference. At RSA we focused […]

AWS – Amazon RDS increases concurrent copy limit to 20 snapshots per destination region
Amazon RDS now allows you to have up to 20 concurrent snapshot copy requests per destination region per account, an increase from the former limit of five concurrent copies per destination region per account. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly adds new male Neural TTS voices in 4 languages
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of 4 male Neural TTS voices: Liam for Canadian French, Arthur for UK English, Daniel for German and Pedro for US Spanish. Read More for the details.