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AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports storing logs in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks like Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Starting today, you can store logs for your EMR Serverless Spark and Hive applications in Amazon CloudWatch. Read […]

AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights adds monitoring for multi-app instance deployments
Amazon Web Services customers can now get detailed health metrics and analysis of their multi-application deployments residing in the same instances with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights helps customers gain actionable insights for their application environment and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor applications, recognize problems, and use […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports training ML models with different objective metrics
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now provides the ability to train machine learning (ML) models with different objective metrics, allowing you to gain a more comprehensive understanding on the model’s strengths and weaknesses. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports sharing ML models with Amazon QuickSight
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports sharing machine learning (ML) models with Amazon QuickSight, enabling analysts to build models in Canvas and generate predictions to build dashboards in QuickSight. This extends the ML/Analytics integrated solution between Canvas and QuickSight for analysts to build models, generate predictions, enrich them with interactive dashboards, and use insights for effective business […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Document Queries powered by Amazon Textract
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports Document Queries, a ready-to-use model powered by Amazon Textract. Document Queries allows you to specify the data you want to extract from structured documents using natural language, without requiring prior knowledge of the document’s structure (table, form, fields, nested data). This eliminates the need for manual processing and searching within […]

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, […]