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AWS – Amazon Kendra adds new partner search connectors from Perficient
Today, Amazon Kendra, an intelligent search service powered by machine learning is releasing new search connectors from Perficient, an AWS partner. These are now available in the Amazon Kendra Connector Library and include search connectors for IBM Case Manager, Adobe Experience Manager, Atlassian Jira and Confluence, and many others. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces Auto-Tune feature for improved performance and application availability
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports automated memory management of Elasticsearch clusters with the new Auto-Tune feature. Auto-Tune is an adaptive resource management system that automatically adjusts Elasticsearch internal settings to handle dynamic workloads, optimizing cluster resources to improve efficiency and performance. With Auto-Tune, you can achieve performance boost in ingestion throughput for log analytics workloads, […]
AWS – Now available AWS SSO credential profile support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
With this new release of the AWS Toolkit for VS Code, customers can use federated credentials, MFA and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to connect Visual Studio Code to AWS. Using AWS SSO, users can sign in to their organization’s Active Directory, a built-in AWS SSO directory, or another external identity provider (IdP) connected to […]
AWS – Now you can use AWS CloudTrail to log data-plane API activity to monitor, alarm, and archive item-level activity in your Amazon DynamoDB tables
Now you can use AWS CloudTrail to log data-plane API activity to monitor, alarm, and archive item-level activity in your Amazon DynamoDB tables. You can use this information about item-level activity as part of an audit, to help address compliance requirements, and monitor which AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, roles, and permissions are […]
AWS – Updated classroom course: Advanced Architecting on AWS
We are excited to announce the launch of the updated Advanced Architecting on AWS course. This instructor-led training course is designed for cloud architects who want to extend their baseline knowledge of AWS services. An expert AWS instructor will help you learn advanced architecting topics such as hybrid connectivity and hybrid AWS devices, networking with […]
AWS – AWS Cost Categories now supports inherited and default values
Starting today, you can use inherited and default values with AWS Cost Categories. AWS Cost Categories enables you to define rules to categorize your costs using dimensions such as accounts, tags, services, charge types, and even other Cost Categories. With the new features, you can achieve more efficient and holistic categorization of your cost and […]
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now supports transforms defined in SQL
AWS Glue Studio now provides the option to define transforms using SQL queries, allowing you to perform aggregations, easily apply filter logic to your data, add calculated fields, and more. This feature makes it easy to seamlessly mix SQL queries with AWS Glue Studio’s visual transforms while authoring ETL jobs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in 4 additional regions
AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to Europe (Milan), Europe (Stockholm), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which AWS custom-designed to provide high performance and lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud. Read More for the details.
GCP – A Google Cloud VMware Engine cheat sheet
If you have VMware workloads and you want to modernize your application to take advantage of cloud services to increase agility and reduce total cost of ownership then Google Cloud VMware Engine is the service for you! It is a managed VMware service with bare metal infrastructure that runs the VMware software stack on Google […]
GCP – High throughput VM logging and metrics agent now in Preview
Running and troubleshooting production services requires deep visibility into your applications and infrastructure. Virtual machines running on Google Compute Engine (GCE) provide some system logs and metrics without any configuration required, but capturing application and advanced system data has required the installation of both a metrics agent and a logging agent. Today, we’re happy to […]