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Azure – Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client. Read More for the details.
Azure – Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023 Read More for the details.
Azure – Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026
Older control plane APIs in Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay will be retired. Read More for the details.
AWS – Private Access to the AWS Management Console is available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Management Console Private Access in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS Management Console Private Access is an advanced security feature that allows customers to define a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations that can access the AWS Management Console from within their network. For example, with AWS Management […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Region of Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region to easily build and scale generative AI applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Catalog API now supports JSON object alongside String for “Details” attribute
Catalog API (CAPI) introduced a new request/response attribute “DetailsDocument” that accepts and returns a JSON object. As a developer, building on top of the APIs, you can send JSON object in CAPI StartChangeSet API request and get a JSON object in the response of DescribeEntity and DescribeChangeSet API. This capability will exist along side the […]
AWS – AWS HealthOmics sequence store now includes auto-calculated ETags for read sets
AWS HealthOmics now calculates Entity Tags (ETags) when ingesting into the sequence store. Sequence store ETags enable customers to validate that files are not altered as part of their ingestion into, storage lifecycle in, and egress from the sequence store, an important audit requirement for many clinical and life science users. The new capability calculates […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports video source replacement
Today, AWS launches video source replacement for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, allowing you to frame-accurately replace sections of source video with alternative content versions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight announces predictive analytics using Amazon SageMaker Canvas
Amazon QuickSight now supports predictive analytics using machine learning (ML) models created in Amazon SageMaker Canvas, without writing a single line of code. QuickSight authors can now export data to SageMaker Canvas, build ML models, and share them back to QuickSight for consumption. This allows you to build predictive dashboards for better insights. With this new […]