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AWS – Amazon SageMaker launches faster auto-scaling for Generative AI models
We are excited to announce a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Inference that helps customers reduce the time it takes for their Generative AI models to scale automatically. They can now use sub-minute metrics and significantly reduce overall scaling latency for AI models. Using this enhancement customers can improve the responsiveness of their Generative AI […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift now supports AWS Nigeria Local Zone
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to the AWS Nigeria region Local Zone, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into the Nigeria Local Zone to reach players […]
AWS – AWS HealthImaging announces enhanced copy and update capabilities
AWS HealthImaging adds new copy and update capabilities, making it easier than ever to manage your medical imaging data. With this launch, you can more efficiently organize, combine, and update your medical imaging data to support common clinical and research workflows. This launch offers enhanced capabilities for modifying DICOM data, and simplifies resolving metadata inconsistencies. […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports Customer Managed Keys
AWS Step Functions now supports the use of Customer Managed Keys with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) to encrypt Step Functions State Machine and Activity resources. This new capability enables you to encrypt your workflow definitions and execution data using your own encryption keys. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of […]
AWS – Amazon ECR repository creation templates are now generally available
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is announcing the general availability of repository creation templates, which allow customers to specify initial configuration for repositories that are automatically created by ECR via pull through cache and replication. ECR customers can specify configuration for these repositories, including encryption settings, lifecycle policies, and repository permissions. This enables customers to […]
AWS – CloudWatch RUM PutRumEvents API now supports data event logging in AWS CloudTrail
CloudWatch RUM, which helps you perform real user monitoring by collecting client-side data of application performance and user interactions in real time, now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for PutRumEvents API, enabling enhanced data visibility for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. Each data item collected using RUM web client or “app monitor“ is considered […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches new capabilities for entity resolution, ML modeling, privacy, and analysis controls
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces four new enhancements: the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution on Clean Rooms, additional privacy controls for data analyses, a feature to configure which collaborators receive analyses results, and the ability to generate seed data for lookalike modeling using SQL. These capabilities help you improve data matching, and give you […]
AWS – Announcing 24 months support for Amazon EMR
Today, Amazon EMR announces 24 month support for Amazon EMR release versions. Amazon EMR aims to get the latest open-source versions of its Core Engines and Open Table Formats into your hands within 90 days from their upstream release. This extended support period gives customers peace of mind and a predictable timeline for budgeting, testing, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 D3en instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3en instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. D3en instances are ideal for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high capacity data lakes. With D3en instances, you can easily migrate from previous-generation D2 instances or […]
GCP – Shiseido: building a data analysis platform using BigQuery for 80% cost savings
The cosmetics industry is one of the industries that has been strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as people’s habits changed — both in how the shop and how they want to show up, whether that’s at work, to a party, or just out and about. Even as our lives have found a new normal […]