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GCP – Better monitoring and logging for Compute Engine VMs
Over the past several months we’ve been focused on improving observability and operations workflows for Compute Engine. Today, we are excited to share the first wave of these enhancements are now available. These include: Significantly improved operating system support for the Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging agents. The ability to rapidly deploy, update, and remove […]
GCP – Introducing Student Success Services from Google Cloud
The shift to remote learning at all levels of education has thrown the challenges of ensuring student success and the student experience into sharp focus. Educational institutions want to guide students throughout their academic careers and improve graduation rates. Students want better remote learning options and ways to collaborate with peers and seek advice from […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Cost Anomaly Detection (Preview)
Starting today, you can receive anomaly detection alert notifications with root cause analysis, so you can proactively take actions and minimize unintentional spend. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Textract has improved accuracy of detecting currency symbols, key value pairs and checkboxes
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that enables customers to automatically extract text and data, including from tables and forms within scanned documents and images. As a fully managed service, Textract delivers continuous improvement over time. Today, we are pleased to announce a few quality enhancements to both our Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics strengthens end-to-end canary run debugging with X-Ray traces
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics enhances its debugging capability by embedding AWS X-Ray traces to help you trace ‘ canary runs’ and determine the root cause of the failure. When a canary has tracing enabled, traces are sent for calls made by the canary. Canaries with tracing enabled appear on the service map in both CloudWatch ServiceLens […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances based on AWS Inferentia now available in Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore) and South America (São Paulo) Regions
AWS has expanded the availability of Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances to Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore), and South America (São Paulo). Inf1 instances are powered by AWS Inferentia chips, which AWS custom-designed to provide high performance and lowest cost machine learning inference in the cloud. Read More for the details.
AWS – Queuing purchases of Savings Plans
Starting today, you can queue purchases of Savings Plans by specifying a time of your choosing in the future to execute those purchases. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift Spectrum adds support for querying open source Apache Hudi and Delta Lake
You can now use Amazon Redshift to run read queries against tables in your Amazon S3 data lake with open source Apache Hudi or Delta Lake. Amazon Redshift Spectrum, a feature of Amazon Redshift, enables you to query your S3 data lake directly from your Redshift cluster without first loading the data into it, minimizing […]
AWS – Announcing the General Availability of Amazon Corretto 15
Amazon Corretto 15 is now generally available. This version supports the latest Java feature release JDK 15 and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 15 here. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new Minor Versions 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, and 9.5.23
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 12.4, 11.9, 10.14, 9.6.19, and 9.5.23. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. Read More for the details.