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AWS – Amazon EC2 G4ad instances, powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs, are now available in 5 additional regions
Amazon EC2 G4ad instances which provide the best price performance for graphics intensive applications in the cloud are now available in US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Canada (Central). G4ad instances are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and second-generation AMD EPYC processors, and provide up to 45% better […]

AWS – AWS Glue now supports missing value imputation based on machine learning
AWS Glue now offers missing value imputation on incomplete datasets. You can use the Fill Missing Values transform to get predicted values for blank entries in a column of your data. This feature makes it easy to clean datasets that have null or empty values so that they don’t need to be accounted for at […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Generally Available
Last week, AWS announced the Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, a managed firewall that enables customers to block DNS queries made for known malicious domains and to allow queries for trusted domains. DNS Firewall provides more granular control over the DNS querying behavior of resources within your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Read More […]

AWS – IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to implement least privilege permissions by generating IAM policies based on access activity
When we launched IAM Access Analyzer, we started by helping you remove unintended public and cross account access by analyzing your existing permissions. Recently, IAM Access Analyzer added policy validation to help you set secure and functional permissions during policy authoring. Now, we are taking that a step further and generating policies for you. You […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds support for recording live streams to Amazon S3
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you can now save your live video content to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Saved video is available for actions like editing or replaying as a video on-demand (VOD). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports Tag-Based Access Control
Amazon ElastiCache now supports tag-based access control and adding tags to additional cluster resources. By using tags for access control, your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, groups, and roles get access only to the Amazon ElastiCache resources with matching tags. This provides you the capability to scale by reducing the number of distinct […]

AWS – Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM)
AWS Amplify iOS can now be installed through the Swift Package Manager. iOS developers can interface with AWS services through Amplify iOS, which is a use case based client library. Developers have been importing Amplify iOS through dependency management tools like CocoaPods. With Swift 3.0, Apple introduced a native package management tool called Swift Package […]

AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.11
You can now launch RabbitMQ 3.8.11 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.6. Read More for the details.

AWS – You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets
AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces the ability to deploy CloudFormation Stacks to multiple AWS regions in parallel. This reduces the overall stack set provisioning times and provides a performance improvement when using StackSets. StackSets extend the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple AWS accounts and regions with a […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS Backups
AWS Backup now enables you to use cost allocation tags for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) backups within AWS Billing and Cost Management. With cost allocation tags, you can get better transparency and visibility into your Amazon EFS backup costs. For example, you can allocate your Amazon EFS backup costs to different departments (e.g., […]