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AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.6.7, 10.5.15, 10.4.24, 10.3.34, 10.2.43
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.7, 10.5.15, 10.4.24, 10.3.34 and 10.2.43. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference (in Preview) and Asynchronous Inference add support for SageMaker Python SDK
Amazon SageMaker Serverless and Asynchronous Inference now support Amazon SageMaker Python SDK, which abstracts the steps required for deployment and thereby simplifies the model deployment workflow. The SageMaker Python SDK is an open source library for deploying machine learning models on Amazon SageMaker. You can use any of the optimized machine learning frameworks, SageMaker supported […]
AWS – You can now customize how data is stored on your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file system to optimize performance for database applications
You can now customize how data is stored on your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file system to optimize performance for database applications and other workloads that consistently read and write data in small increments. Read More for the details.
AWS – Configurable cipher suites now available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
You can now configure your database connections on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition from an allowable list of ciphers. Configurable cipher suites provide you more security control over the connection encryption that your database server accepts. Read More for the details.
GCP – Event Monitoring with explanations on the Google Cloud
Use Cases We are describing a new production machine learning solution to monitor events in IT and industrial operations and explain their symptoms. This solution is used for a variety of industrial applications including proactively monitoring IT operations infrastructure, monitoring events in the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, and predictive monitoring to any […]
GCP – Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API now supports custom voices
With the rise of digital assistants and conversational interfaces, people have grown accustomed to hearing and speaking to synthetic voices. But what do those voices sound like? Often, pretty repetitive. We’re all familiar with the Google Assistant voice, for example. That’s why we are excited to announce the general availability of Custom Voice in our […]
GCP – How sustainability will drive industry transformation
A century of increasing global industrialization created the woeful unintended consequence of crippling greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. Now we have far less time than that to address this crisis. We have to reduce emissions five times faster in this decade than we have been over the last. How do we speed up the action? […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra adds spell checker for queries
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, and helps organizations provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra’s Spell Checker to suggest spell corrections for misspelled words in a query. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports auto termination of idle clusters in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions
Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now supports auto termination of idle clusters in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), […]