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AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Windows Server and SQL Server workload cost estimates
AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Windows Server and SQL Server workload compute cost estimates. The workload estimate now accounts for Microsoft licensing. The Windows Server and SQL Server on Amazon EC2 calculator provides a selection of licensing options such as AWS-provided licenses with License Included (LI) offerings and customers’ existing licenses with bring your own […]

AWS – Now launch Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks backed by Spark in Amazon EMR
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning. With a single click, data scientists and developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio notebooks to explore and prepare datasets to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a single pane of glass. Amazon EMR is a web service that […]

AWS – You now can use PartiQL with NoSQL Workbench to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
You now can use PartiQL with NoSQL Workbench to run SQL-compatible queries on your DynamoDB data. PartiQL makes it easier to interact with DynamoDB, and now you can use PartiQL to query, insert, update, and delete table data by using NoSQL Workbench. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Now supports Tag on Create for Elastic IP addresses
You can now add tags to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Elastic IP addresses while creating the resource. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to Elastic IP addresses to easily organize, search, identify, and control access using Identity and Access Manager (IAM) policies. By tagging at the time of creation you can […]

AWS – PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in 23 AWS Regions
PartiQL—a SQL-compatible query language—for Amazon DynamoDB is now supported in the following 23 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Montreal), South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia […]

AWS – New IAM condition keys for Amazon S3 limit requests to buckets owned by specific AWS accounts, and to specific TLS versions
The s3:ResourceAccount and s3:TLSVersion IAM condition keys help you write simple policies that restrict access to your buckets based on the AWS Account ID of the bucket owner, or by the TLS Version used by the client. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CodeBuild is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS CodeBuild is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple […]

AWS – Amazon Macie now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
Amazon Macie is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. You can now discover sensitive data stored in these regions to help protect your AWS workloads and data in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Transcribe Medical now supports both streaming and batch transcription of multi-channel audio
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA-eligible automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, you can use the new Channel Identification feature to transcribe the speech from both live audio streams or static audio files that contain multiple audio […]
AWS – EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
The EC2 Hibernation feature is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Hibernation gives you the ability to launch EC2 instances, set them up as desired, hibernate them, and then quickly bring them back to life when you need them. Applications pick up exactly where they left off instead of rebuilding their memory footprint. […]