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AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud with Amazon Q
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud with Amazon Q for feature development. Customers can now assign issues in CodeCatalyst to Amazon Q and direct it to work with source code hosted in GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud. Using Amazon Q, you can go from […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds source stream monitoring
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now provides information about the incoming transport stream and its program media. You can view transport stream information such as program numbers, stream types, codecs, and packet identifiers (PIDs) for video, audio, and data streams in the console or via the MediaConnect API. With this new feature you can more accurately identify […]

AWS – Announcing support for Autodesk 3ds Max Usage-Based Licensing in AWS Deadline Cloud
The AWS Deadline Cloud Usage-Based Licensing (UBL) server now offers on-demand licenses for Autodesk 3ds Max, a popular software for 3D modeling, animation, and digital imagery. This addition joins other supported digital content creation tools such as Autodesk Arnold, Autodesk Maya®, Foundry Nuke®, and SideFX® Houdini. With Deadline Cloud UBL, you only pay for use […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now offers a fully managed MLflow Capability
Amazon SageMaker now offers a fully managed MLflow capability. Data scientists can use familiar MLflow constructs to organize, track, and analyze ML experiments and administrators can setup MLflow with better scalability, availability, and security. MLflow is a popular open-source tool that helps customers manage ML experiments. Data scientists and ML engineers are already using MLflow […]

AWS – AWS Glue adds additional 13 new transforms including flag duplicates
AWS Glue now offers 13 new built-in transforms: Flag duplicates in column, Format Phone Number, Format case, Fill with mode, Flag duplicate rows, Remove duplicates, Month name, Is even, Cryptographic Hash, Decrypt, Encrypt, Int to IP and IP to int. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy for analytics users […]

GCP – Bringing file system optimizations to Cloud Storage with hierarchical namespace
Data-intensive and file-oriented applications are some of the fastest growing workloads on Cloud Storage. However, these workloads often expect certain folder semantics that are not optimized in the “flat” structure of existing buckets. We recently announced hierarchical namespace (HNS) for Cloud Storage, a new bucket creation option that provides optimizations for folder structure, resources, and […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Europe (Paris) region. Amazon EC2 D3 instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) and provide up to 48 TB of local HDD storage. D3 instances are ideal for workloads including distributed / […]

AWS – Amazon MWAA now supports Custom Web Server URLs
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports custom domain names for the Airflow web server, simplifying access to the Airflow user interface. Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, […]

AWS – CodeCatalyst allows customers to use Amazon Q Developer to choose a blueprint
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new capability of Amazon Q Developer in Amazon CodeCatalyst. Customers can now use Amazon Q to help them pick the best blueprint for their needs when getting started with a new project or on an existing project. Before, customers had to read through the descriptions of available […]
AWS – AWS Glue Usage Profiles is now generally available
Today, AWS announces general availability of AWS Glue Usage Profiles, a new cost control capability that allows admins to set preventatives controls and limits over resources consumed by their Glue jobs and Notebook sessions. With AWS Glue Usage Profiles, admins can create different cost profiles for different classes of users. Each profile is a unique […]