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AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now Creates Machine Learning Models up to 40% Faster with up to 200% Higher Accuracy
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now creates machine learning models up to 40% faster with up to 200% higher accuracy, even with small and imbalanced datasets. SageMaker Autopilot is a fully managed service that makes it easy to quickly and automatically create machine learning models, without requiring any prior ML or programming experience. Read More for the […]
AWS – vCPU-based Spot Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2
In 2019 we launched Amazon EC2’s vCPU-based limits for On-Demand Instances to simplify the limit management experience for EC2 customers. Now, we have also made the same improvements for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. We have migrated the account limit for Spot Instances from being instance based to a vCPU based limit experience. Starting today, you […]
AWS – AWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAF
You can now enable AWS WAF integration for your GraphQL APIs in AWS AppSync, making it easier to protect your APIs against common web exploits. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces introduces sharing images across accounts
It’s now faster and easier for you to share your Amazon WorkSpaces images across your AWS accounts. With this release, you can share your Amazon WorkSpaces image in one AWS account with another account with a few simple clicks. This helps you simplify and accelerate deployment of Amazon WorkSpaces while improving consistency, compliance, and security […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager receives DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization
AWS Secrets Manager has been authorized by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under DoD’s Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG) at Impact Levels (IL) 4 and IL 5 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this authorization, DoD Mission Owners can now use Secrets Manager to support unclassified National Security Systems (NSS) […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability (GA) of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard), which enhances the preview release of cfn-guard (June 2020) with new features. Cfn-guard is an open-source command line interface (CLI) that checks CloudFormation templates for policy compliance using a simple, policy-as-code, declarative language. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the waiters feature in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x . The waiters feature is an abstraction that enables you to validate that AWS resources, such as DynamoDB tables or Amazon S3 buckets, are in a specified state before performing operations on those resources. When interacting […]
AWS – Amazon ECS extensions for AWS Cloud Development Kit now available as a Developer Preview
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now has a developer preview module in the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), which implements an extendable service construct. Instead of writing JSON task definitions for your services by hand, you can model and provision ECS resources using familiar programming languages. The new ECS service construct for CDK supports extensions […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace launches Geo-Fencing to allow sellers to control availability by country
AWS Marketplace Independent Software Vendors are now able to create new or update existing product listings to control product availability to specific countries. Since launch in 2012, AWS Marketplace products have been available globally. Some Independent Software Vendors need to control where their software can be purchased for tax, compliance, support, or marketing purposes. With […]
AWS – AWS DeepRacer announces new Community Races updates
AWS DeepRacer allows you to get hands-on with machine learning (ML) through a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning, a 3D racing simulator on the AWS DeepRacer console, a global racing league, and hundreds of customer-initiated community races. Read More for the details.