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AWS – Amazon EMR on EC2 announces support for native LDAP authentication
Amazon EMR is excited to announce a new feature that enables user authentication to EMR on EC2 clusters using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) based credentials. This feature allows administrators to configure EMR on EC2 clusters to authenticate corporate identities in their Active Directory (AD) using LDAP. With this launch, AD users are synced to […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces automatic mounting of AWS Glue Data Catalog
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of automatic mounting of AWS Glue Data Catalog, making it easier for customers to run queries in their data lakes. You no longer have to create an external schema in Amazon Redshift to use the data lake tables cataloged in AWS Glue Data Catalog. Now, you can query data […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now supports Network Load Balancers as a resource type
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduces support for Network Load Balancers (NLBs) as a supported resource type in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. You can now use Internet Monitor to get visibility about internet performance and availability for user traffic directed to specific NLBs. Internet Monitor also supports monitoring Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Amazon CloudFront […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family launches SFTP connectors
AWS Transfer Family launches Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) connectors, a fully-managed and low code capability to securely and reliably copy files at scale between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. Files transferred using SFTP connectors are stored in Amazon S3, enabling you to unlock value from data using analytics, data lakes or AI/ML services […]

GCP – DevOps Awards winner Priceline on leveraging a loosely coupled architecture
Priceline has been a leader in online travel for twenty-five years offering hotels, flights and more. Priceline’s proprietary deals technology pairs negotiation with innovation to analyze billions of data points to generate deep discounts for customers they can’t find anywhere else. In fact, Priceline has saved customers over $15B on travel. In this blog post, […]

AWS – AWS Cost Management introduces visual Savings Plans recommendations
Starting today, customers can easily understand and validate their Savings Plans recommendations through new visual graphs. The new hourly graphs show On-Demand spend alongside the recommended Savings Plans commitment, providing insight into estimated savings, Savings Plans coverage, and Savings Plans utilization. This helps customers understand how their Savings Plans apply to each hour of spend […]

AWS – Announcing auto-account association for AWS Billing Conductor billing groups
Starting today, customers can choose to automatically associate all newly created accounts (or any accounts invited to their AWS Organization) with an AWS Billing Conductor billing group. By enabling auto-account association, customers can reduce the steps needed to implement a custom chargeback model. For example, organizations can use the feature to automatically associate all newly […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core announces MQTT support for Device Location feature
Today, AWS IoT Core announces the general availability of MQTT support for Device Location. IoT Core Device Location feature allows customers to obtain devices’ location data and build location based applications even when devices don’t have a built in GPS. With IoT Core Device Location feature, customers can use advanced cloud based location solvers, such […]

AWS – Personalize your search results with Amazon Personalize and OpenSearch integration
Amazon Personalize launches a new integration with self-managed OpenSearch that enables customers to personalize search results for each user and assists in predicting their search needs. The Amazon Personalize Search Ranking plugin within OpenSearch helps customers to leverage the deep learning capabilities offered by Amazon Personalize and add personalization to OpenSearch search results, without any […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK provides additional compositing options for live connector and media capture
The Amazon Chime SDK now provides additional options to customize the layout of video sent to streaming services or captured to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers have more flexibility to tailor the composited layout […]