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GCP – How to create and deploy a model card in the cloud with Scikit-Learn
Machine learning models are now being used to accomplish many challenging tasks. With their vast potential, ML models also raise questions about their usage, construction, and limitations. Documenting the answers to these questions helps to bring clarity and shared understanding. To help advance these goals, Google has introduced model cards. Model cards aim to provide […]
AWS – Announcing cross-database queries for Amazon Redshift (preview)
Amazon Redshift now supports the ability to query across databases in a Redshift cluster. With cross-database queries, you can seamlessly query data from any database in the cluster, regardless of which database you are connected to. Cross-database queries can eliminate data copies and simplify your data organization to support multiple business groups on the same […]
AWS – AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections
AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections. You can now use AWS Glue crawlers to infer schema of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections and create or update a table in the Glue Data Catalog. A configuration option allows you to specify if you want the crawler […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Budgets Actions
Starting today, you can define the action you want to take in your account when a budget exceeds its threshold (actual or forecasted amounts). This level of control will allow you to reduce unintentional overspending in your account. You can choose among three action types: Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, Service Control policy (SCPs), […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports concurrent major version upgrades of read replicas
Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL will concurrently upgrade all of your in-region read replicas along with the upgrade of your primary database instance during major version upgrades of PostgreSQL. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports one click drill downs for real-time metrics
Amazon Connect real-time metric dashboards now allow you to drill down into queue and routing profile data in one click. For example, if a queue has a long wait time, call center managers can create a table in one click to view agents in that queue. With this table, they can quickly identify agents in […]
AWS – Achieve up to 52% better price/performance with Amazon RDS using new Graviton2 instances
AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement for RDS open source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. You can launch these database instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Budgets price reduction
To coincide with our new AWS Budgets Actions launch, we are reducing the price for budget-days from $.02 to free. Before this reduction, customers received 62 free budget-days per month before paying $.02 per budget-day for all active budgets within a regular account or consolidated billing family. Customers who simply want to monitor their cost, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora enables dynamic resizing for database storage space
The storage space allocated to your Amazon Aurora database cluster will now dynamically decrease when you delete data from the cluster. The storage space already automatically increases up to a maximum size of 128 tebibytes (TiB), and will now automatically decrease when data is deleted. You only pay for the storage you use. Starting September […]
AWS – AWS IAM Access Analyzer now supports archive rules for existing findings
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now supports archive rules that allow you to retroactively mark existing findings as intended. Archive rules automatically archive new findings for public and cross-account access that meet the criteria you define. Now, you can apply the rules retroactively to mark existing findings as intended. For example, you […]