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AWS – AWS Copilot now supports custom domain names for App Runner Services and other enhancements
Today, AWS Copilot announced the release of version 1.9. With this release, AWS Copilot now allows you to configure a friendly DNS name for your request driven web services deployed with AWS App Runner. This feature was already available for load balanced web services deployed with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Customers using AWS App Runner […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports invoking AWS Lambda Functions
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now supports a LambdaStep that allows customers to directly invoke an AWS Lambda function as a step in the ML model building pipeline. Customers can use the new LambdaStep to run any tasks or jobs on AWS Lambda […]

AWS – Amazon GameLift announces General Availability of Game Server Hosting and Multiplayer Services in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Amazon GameLift, now available in AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Trusted by some of the most successful game companies in the world like Wargaming, Behaviour Interactive, and Ubisoft, GameLift deploys, operates, and scales dedicated servers for multiplayer games. Now, GameLift and its […]

AWS – AWS License Manager now supports Delegated Administrator
AWS License Manager announces support for Delegated Administrator, a feature that allows license administrators to manage and distribute licenses across all of their AWS accounts from a delegated account other than the central payer account. Using delegated administrator, you can discover licenses running across all accounts and track license usage centrally. Delegated Administrator provides you […]

GCP – Distributed training and Hyperparameter tuning with TensorFlow on Vertex AI
The values you select for your model’s hyperparameters can make all the difference. If you’re only trying to tune a handful of hyperparameters, you might be able to run experiments manually. However, with deep learning models where you’re often juggling hyperparameters for the architecture, the optimizer, and finding the best batch size and learning rate, […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics API for conversation insights
Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics, a new machine learning (ML) powered conversation insights API that enables businesses to improve their customer experience and agent productivity. Using Transcribe Call Analytics API, you can analyze call recordings to get turn-by-turn call transcripts and actionable insights. Businesses can better understand customer-agent interactions, identify trending […]

AWS – Managed entitlements now available for AWS Data Exchange products in AWS License Manager
AWS Data Exchange subscribers can now track and manage their organizations’ entitlements to AWS Data Exchange products using AWS License Manager. With this enhancement, subscribers can manage and distribute licenses using individual Account IDs or Organization IDs, which entitles other accounts within their AWS organization to access data procured via AWS Data Exchange. For organizations […]

AWS – AWS Cloud9 introduces new features to browse CloudWatch Logs, S3, and use EC2 instance profiles
AWS Cloud9 introduces 3 new features, including support for CloudWatch Logs, S3 and EC2 instance profiles. Cloud9 users can now list their log groups and view log streams instantly without leaving their IDE. In addition, the S3 integration has improved performance in VPCs and now supports a new “Upload current file” feature. Finally, Cloud9 users using […]

Azure – Public preview of Azure Database – Flexible Server now available in new regions
The public preview Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server (Preview) is now supported in two additional regions—West US and Germany West Central. Read More for the details.
Azure – Private DNS zone integration for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in public preview
Private DNS zone integration is now available for Flexible Server on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database. Read More for the details.