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AWS – Amazon Personalize announces improvements that reduce model training time by up to 40% and latency for generating recommendations by up to 30%
We are excited to announce efficiency improvements for Amazon Personalize that decrease the time required to train models by up to 40% and reduce the latency for generating real-time recommendations by up to 30%. Amazon Personalize enables developers to build applications with the same machine learning (ML) technology used by Amazon.com for real-time personalized recommendations […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters
You can now discover endpoints registered in AWS Cloud Map with optional parameters that filter the returned results only when there is a matching custom attribute. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe announces support for AWS PrivateLink for Batch APIs
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that you can use to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access the Amazon Transcribe batch API from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs or requiring the traffic to traverse the Internet. […]
AWS – Easily restore an Amazon RDS for MySQL database from your MySQL 8.0 backup
Starting today, you can use easily restore a new Amazon RDS for MySQL database instance from a backup of your existing MySQL 8.0 database, whether it’s running on Amazon EC2 or outside of AWS. This is done by using Percona XtraBackup to create a backup of your existing MySQL database, uploading the resulting files to […]
Azure – Azure Files premium tier is now available in more regions with LRS, ZRS, and NFS support
More Azure Files premium tier regions – more premium files regions with locally redundant storage (LRS), zone redundant storage (ZRS) support, and Network File System (NFS 4.1) public preview support. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR integration with AWS Lake Formation is now generally available
Amazon EMR now allows you to leverage AWS Lake Formation for defining and enforcing fine-grained access control policies for Apache Spark applications. Previously, this feature was in beta. Read More for the details.
GCP – Providing open access to the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) on Google Cloud
Today, we are excited to announce a collaboration between Google Cloud Healthcare & Life Sciences and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to provide free access to one of the world’s most comprehensive public genomic datasets, the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD). gnomAD brings together data from numerous large-scale sequencing projects, including population and disease-specific […]
GCP – Announcing Google Cloud buildpacks—container images made easy
As a developer building a new application, you want to focus on writing code, not containerizing it. And if you already use containers, you know that creating a good, secure container image can be complicated and time-consuming. Today we’re launching broad support across Google Cloud for buildpacks—an open-source technology that makes it fast and easy […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions
AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in the Sydney and Singapore AWS Regions, extending the footprint to 6 AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CodeArtifact now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS CodeArtifact now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling customers to create and manage CodeArtifact repositories with CloudFormation. Read More for the details.