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Azure – Public Preview: VMSS Automatic Instance Repairs – Reimage, Restart Repair Actions
New recovery options available on automatic instance repairs provides the capability for less-disruptive repair actions on sensitive workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Relational Database Service announces Dedicated Log Volume
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports a Dedicated Log Volume for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases. An Amazon RDS Dedicated Log Volume allows customers to select a configuration where the most latency sensitive components of their database, the transaction logs, are stored in a separate, dedicated volume. Dedicated Log Volumes work with Provisioned […]

AWS – Amazon Corretto October, 2023 Quarterly Updates
On Oct 17, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 21.0.1, 17.0.9, 11.0.21, and 8u392 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CodePipeline supports retrying a pipeline execution from the first action in a failed stage
Today, AWS CodePipeline announces support for retrying a pipeline execution from the first action in a stage that failed. This launch provides another remediation option for a failed pipeline execution in addition to the existing option of retrying a failed pipeline execution from the failed action(s). Read More for the details.

AWS – Preview of Regional Expansion for ml.p4d, ml.trn1, and ml.g5 instances on SageMaker Inference
We are pleased to announce the preview of ml.p4d, ml.trn1, and ml.g5 instances, in new regions, for asynchronous and real-time inference of machine learning (ML) models on Amazon SageMaker. These instances are also generally available in other regions for inference. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Regional Expansion of ml.p4d instances on SageMaker Inference
We are pleased to announce the general availability of ml.p4d instances, in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt), to deploy machine learning (ML) models for Real-time and Asynchronous inference on Amazon SageMaker. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration with Visual Studio Code
AWS announces the support for Amazon Redshift with Visual Studio Code (VSCode), a free and open-source code editor. The integration with Visual Studio Code enables Amazon Redshift customers to use Visual Studio Code to author and run their SQL queries in a notebook interface and view the schema objects in their Redshift data warehouses. Read […]

AWS – SageMaker announces preview of ml.p5.48xlarge Instances for Inference
We are pleased to announce the preview of ml.p5.48xlarge instances for deploying machine learning (ML) models for real-time and asynchronous inference on Amazon SageMaker. Read More for the details.

GCP – Vertex AI adds Mistral AI model for powerful and flexible AI solutions
One of Europe’s leading providers of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, Mistral AI, is on a mission to design highly performant and efficient open-source (OSS) foundation models. Mistral AI is teaming up with Google Cloud to natively integrate their cutting-edge AI model within Vertex AI. This integration can accelerate AI adoption by making it easy for […]
AWS – Personalize search results with Amazon Personalize and Amazon OpenSearch service integration
Amazon Personalize is excited to launch a new integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service that enables customers to personalize search results for each user and improve the user engagement from their search. The Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin within Amazon OpenSearch Service helps customers leverage the deep learning capabilities offered by Amazon Personalize and add personalization […]