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AWS – AWS IoT Device Management enhances Secure Tunneling with new multiplexing capability, supporting multiple connections to a single device over a secure tunnel
AWS IoT Device Management customers use Secure Tunneling to securely access and troubleshoot remote devices located behind a restricted firewall. Now, customers can make concurrent client connections to a single device over a secure tunnel using the new multiplexing capability. Multiplexing enables customers to perform more advanced device troubleshooting, such as modifying parameters via a […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances
Today we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports multi-GPU instances of ml.g4dn.12xlarge, ml.p3.8xlarge, and ml.p3.16xlarge. Multi-GPU instances accelerate machine learning model training significantly, allowing users to train more advanced machine learning models that are too large to fit into a single GPU. They also provide the flexibility to process larger batches of data such as […]

AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon EKS service integration
AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon EKS, making it easier to build resilient applications that orchestrate jobs running on Kubernetes with AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS with minimal code. You can now build workflows including steps that launch tasks in Amazon EKS and wait for its completion […]

AWS – Announcing protection groups for AWS Shield Advanced
AWS Shield Advanced now allows you to bundling resources into protection groups, giving you a self-service way to customize the scope of detection and mitigation for your application by treating multiple resources as a single unit. Resource grouping improves the accuracy of detection, reduces false positives, eases automatic protection of newly created resources, and accelerates […]

AWS – Amazon Augmented AI is now a HIPAA eligible service
Starting today, Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) is a HIPAA eligible service. Amazon Augmented AI makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of ML predictions. HIPPA eligibility applies to AWS Regions where the service is available and means you can use Amazon A2I to help you add human review of Protected […]

AWS – Join the Final Lap of the 2020 DeepRacer League at AWS re:Invent 2020
Today, we are excited to announce the AWS DeepRacer League’s 2020 season is nearing the final lap with the Championship at AWS re:Invent 2020. From November 10 through December 15, there are three ways to join in the racing fun: learn how to develop a competitive reinforcement learning model through our sessions, enter and compete […]

AWS – The AWS CDK EKS Construct Library is Now Available as a Developer Preview and Adds Support for cdk8s
The EKS Construct Library is an AWS CDK module that helps customers provision Amazon EKS clusters using infrastructure-as-code best practices. Up until now, it has been in an experimental state, incorporating lots of customer feedback and undergoing multiple API and behavioral changes. Starting from version 1.65.0 (https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/releases/tag/v1.65.0), the library is graduating to Developer Preview. This […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Log Analytics in Brazil Southeast and Norway East
Log Analytics, a feature of Azure Monitor, is now generally available for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage in Brazil Southeast and Norway East. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Application Insight in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast, and Norway East
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in Australia Central, Brazil Southeast, and Norway East regions for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in Germany West Central, UAE North, and Switzerland West
Germany West Central, UAE North, and Switzerland West are now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health and usage using Azure Log Analytics. Read More for the details.