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AWS – AWS Cloud Map API now supports IPv6
AWS Cloud Map API now supports the IPv6 protocol, allowing applications to connect to AWS Cloud Map endpoints over IPv6. This allows you to more easily integrate with existing IPv6-based applications, and reduce the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for Apache Parquet file format
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot provides support for the Apache Parquet file format. Apache Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It provides […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for datasets up to 100 GB
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. You can now use SageMaker Autopilot to build machine learning models for regression and classification problems on datasets larger than 10 GB, the previously supported limit. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers to Honeycomb
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to Honeycomb, enabling Honeycomb users to ingest streaming data without having to manage applications or write code. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables monitoring of service usage quota in Amazon CloudWatch
You can now visualize and monitor the number of concurrently running or queued Systems Manager Automation executions using Amazon CloudWatch. You can also create a CloudWatch alarm to get notified if the usage exceeds a defined threshold such as 80% of the service quota available for the AWS account. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports higher concurrency for Automation executions
AWS Systems Manager now supports up to 500 concurrent Automation executions, enabling you to automate operational tasks, such as patching instances on a larger scale. If you enable adaptive higher concurrency, Automation will automatically increase or decrease the concurrency quota based on the scaling requirements. You can enable adaptive higher concurrency from the Automation Preferences tab. […]
GCP – This year, resolve to become a certified Professional Cloud Developer – here’s how
Do you have a New Year’s resolution to improve your career prospects? There’s still time to register for a free Google Cloud Skills Boost to help you on your way to becoming a certified Professional Cloud Developer. According to third-party IT training firm Global Knowledge, two Google Cloud Certified Professional certifications topped its list of […]
GCP – Optimize the cost of your Google Cloud VMware Engine deployments
Google Cloud VMware Engine allows you to deploy a managed VMware environment with dedicated hardware in minutes with the flexibility to add and remove ESXi nodes on-demand. This flexibility is particularly convenient to quickly add compute capacity as needed. However, it is important to implement cost optimization strategies and review processes such that increased costs […]
GCP – Startup founder uses virtual reality therapy to support the speech disorder community
Editor’s note: Meet Gareth Walkom, an entrepreneur dedicated to helping others with speech disorders. Turning life experience into innovation Did you know that 3% of Americans have a speech disorder, while 1% of the world’s population have a stutter? Just getting what they need in everyday interactions can be stressful, which intensifies when the stakes […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G4dn instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Amazon EC2 G4dn instances which provide a cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS region. Read More for the details.