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AWS – AWS Ground Station launches new antenna location in Hawaii, USA
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station announces a new antenna location in Hawaii, USA. This is now the eighth Ground Station location connected to the AWS Global Network. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now supports specifying a custom instance warm-up time
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS) now supports specifying a custom instance warm-up time, making scaling more responsive. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS Capacity Providers Now Support Update Functionality
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) capacity providers now support update functionality. You can update the parameters of a capacity provider using either the AWS Management Console or the new UpdateCapacityProvider API. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transfer Family supports AWS WAF for identity provider integrations
AWS Transfer Family customers using Amazon API Gateway to integrate their own identity management systems to authenticate end users can now use AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to easily apply additional layers of access controls. You can also protect your file transfer endpoints against exploits such as bots and port scanners. Read More for the […]

AWS – AWS IoT Analytics now supports notifications for and reprocessing of late data
With AWS IoT Analytics you can now configure notification for data sets that receive late data and refresh the results of the data sets with late data. Late data is data that arrives after an initial result is generated for the data set. You can configure late data notification for a data set by simply […]

AWS – Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for .NET 5
Porting Assistant for .NET can now support customers to migrate their legacy .NET framework applications to newly released .NET 5. .NET 5 is a major release with a broad set of features and improvements. With this updated release of Porting Assistant for .NET customers can analyze and port their .NET framework applications to either new […]

AWS – AWS Batch now has integrated Amazon Linux 2 support
AWS Batch now supports natively launching Amazon Linux 2 as your AMI when creating an AWS Batch compute environment through a single parameter. Amazon Linux 2 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop […]

AWS – Amazon Forecast now supports accuracy measurements for individual items
We’re excited to announce that you can now measure the accuracy of forecasts for individual items in Amazon Forecast, allowing you to better understand your forecasting model’s performance for the items that most impact your business. Improving forecast accuracy for specific items—such as those with higher prices or higher costs—is often more important than optimizing […]

AWS – PostgreSQL 13 now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
PostgreSQL 13 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing customers to test PostgreSQL 13 on Amazon RDS. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Ubertas Consulting Foundations for AWS Well-Architected
Ubertas Consulting Foundations for AWS Well-Architected is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Ubertas Consulting, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Ubertas Consulting Foundations for AWS Well-Architected offers a consulting engagement to build out a robust, best-practice-driven AWS environment. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that […]