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AWS – AWS announces the launch of Amazon Comprehend Events
AWS now offers Amazon Comprehend Events, which extracts real world events and the associated arguments from text documents. For example, consider a news article that announces that Amazon acquired WholeFoods Market. Comprehend Events will identify the event as an ‘acquisition’ and detect the acquirer (Amazon), acquiree (WholeFoods Market), the deal amount and the date and […]

AWS – Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now offers more responsive scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Cluster Auto Scaling (CAS) now offers more responsive scaling when using EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) that span across Availability Zones (AZs) and instance types. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports anomaly detection for high cardinality datasets
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers anomaly detection for high cardinality datasets. This new feature enables you to sift through thousands of metrics from millions of events to accurately pinpoint individual entities with abnormal patterns. By leveraging machine learning, Amazon Elasticsearch Service now provides reliable and actionable insights to drastically reduce the time to isolate and […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service introduces Piped Processing Language (PPL)
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Piped Processing Language (PPL), a new feature that enables users to explore, discover and find data stored in Amazon ES, using a set of commands delimited by pipes (|). PPL extends Elasticsearch to support a standard set of commands that is easy for system developers, DevOps engineers, support engineers, site […]

AWS – Amazon Braket now supports manual qubit allocation
Customers can now explicitly specify which qubits are going to be used when they use Amazon Braket to run a quantum circuit on quantum computers from Rigetti. This allows researchers and advanced users to optimize their circuit design based on the latest device calibration data to get more accurate results. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Secrets Manager now supports 5000 requests per second for the GetSecretValue API operation
AWS Secrets Manager now supports higher request rates for the GetSecretValue API operation of up to 5000 requests per second. This increased API limit will be applied to your accounts automatically. No further action required on your end. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Remote Reindex
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers support for Remote Reindex, enabling you to migrate data from a remote cluster into Amazon Elasticsearch Service. With this feature, you can simply copy data from one cluster to another, making it easier to migrate from legacy versions of Elasticsearch. Remote Reindex also supports migrating indexes from self-managed Elasticsearch onto […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2020 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU), and allows setting database system events
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the October 2020 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1, and the October 2020 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. October 2020 PSU for Oracle Database 11.2 will be launched soon. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.9
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.9 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
Amazon Managed Workflows is a new managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud at scale. Apache Airflow is an open source tool used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor sequences of processes and tasks referred to as “workflows”. Read More for […]