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Azure – General availability: Azure Machine Learning user-defined functions in Azure Stream Analytics
Machine Learning user-defined function in Stream Analytics allows you to perform high throughput, low latency, real-time predictions, allowing you to act on insights which have a very short shelf-life. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introduction to Google Cloud
Imagine you are a Google Cloud Architect for foo.com, an internet accessible application. There are many different ways to architect such an application on Google Cloud; no one way is right or wrong. Let’s examine one approach, from the perspective of a generic request flow for when a user opens the browser and types foo.com […]
AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports resource and tag based access management
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports resource and tag-based access controls for easy management and access to cost anomaly monitors and alert subscriptions. You can now define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for AWS Cost Anomaly Detection monitors and alert subscriptions based on their resource names and tags, improving governance […]
AWS – AWS Proton support for Terraform Open Source is now Generally Available
AWS Proton support for defining infrastructure in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform Open Source is now generally available in all regions where Proton is available. Platform teams can now define AWS Proton templates using Terraform modules, in addition to CloudFormation. AWS Proton leverages the customer-managed Terraform automation to provision or update […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Slack Connector to enable Slack messaging search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Slack Connector to index and search messages from Slack. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS GameKit for Unreal Game Engine is now Generally Available
Today we are releasing AWS GameKit, a new solution that allows game developers to deploy and customize game backend features directly from Unreal Engine. AWS GameKit comes with AWS CloudFormation templates for each feature that follows AWS Solution Architect designs. AWS GameKit also comes with an integration code between the game backend features and Unreal […]
AWS – Now in Preview – Amazon GameSparks
We are happy to announce the preview of Amazon GameSparks, a managed AWS service that provides game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend for their games without having to manage servers or low-level cloud primitives. Amazon GameSparks makes building a game backend easy for game developers who have little to no […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Groups Management UI
Amazon QuickSight now supports native groups management with an interactive user interface. With this change, administrators can efficiently and easily administer and govern user groups via the QuickSight admin console. They can create and manage groups and manage users membership within groups. Groups Management UI is available to administrators with access to the QuickSight admin console […]
AWS – AWS Amplify announces the new @mapsTo directive to iterate on GraphQL APIs without manual data migrations
AWS Amplify announces the new @mapsTo GraphQL directive, enabling developers to iterate and rename their GraphQL models without worrying about data migration. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud. With Amplify’s GraphQL Transformer, developers can configure their backend data model using the GraphQL […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now supports warm pools for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to help applications scale out faster and save costs by using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling Warm Pools with their Amazon ECS clusters. Warm Pools allow customers to create a pool of pre-initialized Amazon EC2 instances that are ready to quickly serve application […]