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AWS – AWS CloudHSM is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
AWS CloudHSM is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors
Starting today, new general purpose Amazon EC2 M6gd, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6gd, and memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance and 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances for a wide […]

Azure – A new Power BI component for React is now available
A new Power BI component is now available for easier integration with React, a popular open-source JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Blob storage—Network File System 3.0 protocol support is now in preview
NFS 3.0 protocol support for Azure Blob storage is now in preview. Azure Blob storage is the only storage platform that supports NFS 3.0 protocol over object storage natively (no gateway or data copying required), with crucial object storage economics. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks like […]

AWS – AWS ParallelCluster 2.8.0
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Learning to Rank to improve search relevancy ranking
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports the open source Learning to Rank plugin that lets you use machine learning technologies to improve the ranking of the top results returned from a baseline relevance query. With Learning to Rank (LTR) support, you can tune the search relevancy and re-rank your Elasticsearch query search results in information retrieval, […]

AWS – Amazon MQ Adds Support for LDAP Authentication And Authorization
Amazon MQ now supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), enabling you to authenticate and authorize Amazon MQ users using directory services like Microsoft Active Directory. LDAP support simplifies authentication and access control for Amazon MQ brokers. You can now authenticate your Amazon MQ users through the credentials stored in your LDAP server. You can also […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI add support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication of private workers
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a fully managed data labeling service that makes it easy to build highly accurate training datasets for machine learning. Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of ML predictions. Amazon A2I brings human review to all developers, removing the undifferentiated heavy […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Distributor adds support to install and update agents on Oracle Linux platforms
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to install and update software agents on instances running Oracle Linux 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, and 7.8. This support simplifies agent management for environments that include Oracle Linux instances. Read More for the details.