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GCP – Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator remotely
Welcome to the third part of our series on the Cloud Spanner Emulator. In the first part, we got an overview of Cloud Spanner and the emulator, as well as the various ways that it can be provisioned. In the second part, we explored the various options available for running the emulator locally, as well […]

AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now provides you more granular control of audit logging by enabling you to filter Streams data-plane API activity in AWS CloudTrail
You now can use AWS CloudTrail to filter and retrieve Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity, giving you more granular control over which DynamoDB API calls you want to selectively log and pay for in CloudTrail and to help address compliance and auditing requirements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lex announces utterances statistics for bots built using Lex V2 console and API
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, Amazon Lex makes utterances statistics available through the Amazon Lex V2 console and API. You can now use utterances statistics to tune bots built on Lex V2 console and APIs to further improve conversational experience for your users. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Fleet instant mode now supports targeted Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Starting today, you can use EC2 Fleet with targeted On-Demand Capacity Reservations. On-Demand Capacity Reservations enable you to reserve compute capacity for your Amazon EC2 instances in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. For targeted Capacity Reservations, instances must specifically target the Capacity Reservation to run in the reserved capacity. Until now, there was […]

AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender announces Audit One-Click
Today we are launching Audit One-Click for AWS IoT Device Defender. Audit One-Click makes it easy for AWS IoT Core customers to improve their security baseline by making it possible to start auditing their account and IoT devices against security best practices with a single click. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lex is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Africa (Cape Town) regions
Starting today, Amazon Lex is available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex combines advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Studio now supports multi-language Jupyter-based notebooks for Spark workloads
EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to announce that from EMR 6.4.0 and later, you can use Python, Scala, SparkSQL, and R within the […]

AWS – AWS Ground Station announces Licensing Accelerator
AWS is announcing Licensing Accelerator, a new AWS Ground Station feature which provides commercial businesses, space start-ups, and universities access to resources to help them more efficiently secure spectrum licenses required for their operations and missions. Licensing accelerator is free-of-charge to AWS Ground Station customers. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets […]
AWS – Amazon ECR adds the ability to replicate individual repositories to other regions and accounts
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) launched the ability to replicate specific repositories to accounts or regions, and see when images were replicated through the ECR API. This gives you granular control to replicate images within repositories you want, instead of replicating all images in a registry, and the ability to automate actions through the […]