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AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas can now operationalize ML models in production
You can now register machine learning (ML) models built in Amazon SageMaker Canvas with a single click to SageMaker Model registry enabling you to operationalize ML models in production. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any ML experience or having […]
AWS – Introducing Cedar, an open-source language for access control
Today, AWS open-sourced the Cedar policy language and authorization engine. You can use Cedar to express fine-grained permissions as easy-to-understand policies enforced in your applications, and you can decouple access control from your application logic. Cedar supports common authorization models such as role-based access control and attribute-based access control. It follows a new verification-guided development […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis adds support for Redis 7
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now supports Redis 7. This release brings several new features to MemoryDB: Redis Functions: MemoryDB adds support for Redis Functions, and provides a managed experience enabling developers to execute LUA scripts with application logic durably stored on the MemoryDB cluster. ACL improvements: MemoryDB adds support for the next version of Redis […]
AWS – Announcing Provisioned Concurrency for Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference
Today, we are excited to announce general availability of Provisioned Concurrency support for Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference. Provisioned Concurrency allows you to deploy models on serverless endpoints with predictable performance and high scalability. You can add provisioned concurrency to your serverless endpoints, and for the pre-defined amount of provisioned concurrency SageMaker will keep the endpoints […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now allows customers to optimize the compute costs of their applications
Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that helps DevOps engineers to investigate and remediate issues in the context of their applications, now enables customers to optimize the cost of compute resources associated with their applications. Customers can now view the cost of their applications in Application Manager and also take recommended actions, such […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support ml.p4d, ml.p4de and ml.inf1 instances
Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks and Notebook Instances now support ml.p4d and ml.p4de GPU-based instances that provide the best performance for interactive machine learning (ML) workloads in the cloud for applications such as large language models with billions of parameters, natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, genomics research, and more. These instances are […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Lagos, Nigeria
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Rack Center data center in Lagos, Nigeria. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for […]
GCP – Build maps faster with Web Components
Starting today, we’re happy to offer Web Components in Preview as a new way for developers to use Google Maps Platform. Initially you’ll be able to access Web Components for Map and Advanced Marker functionality, and we’ll iteratively add more functionality over time. Additionally, we’re also launching an open source Extended Component Library that contains […]
GCP – The latest on maps customization
Editor’s Note:This post is part of our Google I/O 2023 series sharing the latest Google Maps Platform news from our annual developer conference. To learn more about our maps customization products, join our I/O session when it premieres at 1 p.m. PT. One of the top requests we get from our community is for more […]
GCP – Routes API is now generally available
In September we announced the Preview release of the new Routes API, an enhanced version of the Directions and Distance Matrix APIs that enables you to provide more informative and flexible routes for your users. Starting today, Routes API is now generally available. Routes API builds on the foundational features of the Directions and Distance […]