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GCP – Toward automated tagging: bringing bulk metadata into Data Catalog
Data Catalog lets you ingest and edit business metadata through an interactive interface. It includes programmatic interfaces that can be used to automate your common tasks. Many enterprises have to define and collect a set of metadata using Data Catalog, so we’ll offer some best practices here on how to declare, create, and maintain this […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types
AWS CloudFormation Drift Detection now supports CloudFormation Registry resource types, so you can detect unmanaged configuration changes on additional AWS resources, as well as third-party or private ones. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now enables creating a single inference API to find diverse objects and scenes in images with high accuracy
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) feature that allows customers to find objects and scenes in images, unique to their business needs, with a simple inference API. Customers can create a custom ML model simply by uploading labeled images. No ML expertise is required. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now Creates Machine Learning Models up to 40% Faster with up to 200% Higher Accuracy
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now creates machine learning models up to 40% faster with up to 200% higher accuracy, even with small and imbalanced datasets. SageMaker Autopilot is a fully managed service that makes it easy to quickly and automatically create machine learning models, without requiring any prior ML or programming experience. Read More for the […]
AWS – vCPU-based Spot Instance Limits are Now Available in Amazon EC2
In 2019 we launched Amazon EC2’s vCPU-based limits for On-Demand Instances to simplify the limit management experience for EC2 customers. Now, we have also made the same improvements for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. We have migrated the account limit for Spot Instances from being instance based to a vCPU based limit experience. Starting today, you […]
AWS – AWS AppSync adds support for AWS WAF
You can now enable AWS WAF integration for your GraphQL APIs in AWS AppSync, making it easier to protect your APIs against common web exploits. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces introduces sharing images across accounts
It’s now faster and easier for you to share your Amazon WorkSpaces images across your AWS accounts. With this release, you can share your Amazon WorkSpaces image in one AWS account with another account with a few simple clicks. This helps you simplify and accelerate deployment of Amazon WorkSpaces while improving consistency, compliance, and security […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager receives DoD Impact Level 4 and 5 authorization
AWS Secrets Manager has been authorized by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) under DoD’s Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG) at Impact Levels (IL) 4 and IL 5 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this authorization, DoD Mission Owners can now use Secrets Manager to support unclassified National Security Systems (NSS) […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Guard – an open-source CLI for infrastructure compliance – is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability (GA) of AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard), which enhances the preview release of cfn-guard (June 2020) with new features. Cfn-guard is an open-source command line interface (CLI) that checks CloudFormation templates for policy compliance using a simple, policy-as-code, declarative language. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing general availability of waiters in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the waiters feature in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x . The waiters feature is an abstraction that enables you to validate that AWS resources, such as DynamoDB tables or Amazon S3 buckets, are in a specified state before performing operations on those resources. When interacting […]