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AWS – User management and other improvements added to Serverless Developer Portal
You can now manage users of the Amazon API Gateway Serverless Developer Portal directly from the portal’s admin interface. In addition, API consumers can quickly find APIs with improved search and more easily build APIs by exporting OpenAPI definitions for published APIs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fargate is now available in Europe (Milan) Region
AWS Fargate is now available in the Europe (Milan) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now supports single object training
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (ML) feature that enables customers to quickly train their own custom models for detecting business-specific objects and scenes from images – no ML experience is required. For example, customers train a custom model to find their company logos in social media posts, identify their products on […]
GCP – Coming to Google Meet: Customizable backgrounds, Nest integration, and more
Since making Google Meet premium video meetings free and available to everyone, we’ve continued to accelerate the development of new features for the growing number of individuals, teams, and organizations that rely on Meet to stay connected. Let’s take a look at some of the new features that have launched this month as well as […]
AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions
Starting today, Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) for EBS Snapshots is available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. DLM provides a simple, automated way to back up data stored on EBS volumes. With this feature, you no longer have to rely on custom scripts to create and manage your EBS volume backups. […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Additional Shell Environments
AWS CodeBuild now supports the bash and CMD shell environments for executing commands and scripts. The bash shell is available for machines hosting versions of Amazon Linux or Ubuntu, and the CMD shell is available on machines hosting versions of Microsoft Windows Server. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL now Supports Minor Versions 5.6.48 and 5.7.30
Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 5.6.48 and release 5.7.30 of the MySQL database. These releases include a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR uses real-time capacity insights to provision spot instances to lower cost and interruption
Amazon EMR introduces now offers “Capacity Optimized” allocation strategy for provisioning Spot Instances in an Amazon EMR cluster. The “Capacity Optimized” allocation strategy automatically makes the most efficient use of available spare capacity while still taking advantage of the steep discounts offered by Spot Instances. By offering the possibility of fewer interruptions, the capacity-optimized strategy […]
AWS – Announcing Cross-Cluster Search support for Amazon Elasticsearch Service for AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) now offers support for cross-cluster search in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to perform searches, aggregations, and visualizations across multiple Amazon ES domains with a single query or from a single Kibana interface. With this feature, you can separate heterogeneous workloads into multiple domains, which provides better resource isolation, […]
Azure – Azure CLI June 2020 update
The Azure CLI continues to expand with support for new Azure services. This release includes 23 new modules to manage as many Azure services. Read More for the details.