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AWS – Amazon Personalize simplifies implementation by extending column limits
Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to implement machine learning powered personalization by reducing the need for experimentation with increased dataset column limits. Amazon Personalize uses datasets provided by customers to train custom personalization models on their behalf. Some customers experiment with multiple iterations of their datasets in order to optimize model performance while fitting within […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities now support Notebook with GPU-based Instances
You can now use the geospatial image within SageMaker Studio’s notebook with GPU-based instances. Support for GPU-based instances with the geospatial image makes it easier for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS SAM CLI announces local testing and debugging support on Terraform projects
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the launch of SAM CLI local testing and debugging on HashiCorp Terraform. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon MWAA expands support for customer compliance with ISO and IRAP
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) has added certifications for International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP). Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are appropriately […]

AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor adds 1 new fault tolerance check
AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new fault tolerance check for events that fail processing during asynchronous invocations with AWS Lambda. AWS Trusted Advisor evaluates your AWS account with automated checks and provides cloud optimization recommendations to reduce costs, improve performance, increase security and fault tolerance, and monitor service quotas. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports h3-pg for geospatial indexing
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the h3-pg extension, which provides an API to H3, an open-source hexagonal, hierarchical geospatial indexing system. With this extension, you can perform different kinds of spatial analysis over large datasets, including efficient indexing and lookups, modeling flow through a grid, and applying machine learning models over […]

AWS – AWS Partner network launches new AWS Automotive Competency
We are excited to announce the launch of the AWS Automotive Competency designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in the automotive industry. AWS Automotive Competency Partners have shown their AWS competency across at least one of eight automotive strategic workloads: 1/Autonomous Mobility (AM), 2/Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds Amazon EKS control plane logs as Vended Logs
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) control plane logs are now classified as Vended Logs in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Vended Logs are specific AWS service logs natively published by AWS services on behalf of the customer and available at volume discount pricing. Read More for the details.
GCP – Reimagining the developer experience with Google Cloud
Could enhancing the developer experience be the key to setting your business apart? Mckinsey research found that nearly 70% of the top economic performers are leveraging software for a competitive edge. Given that your software is a crucial differentiator, it’s essential to concentrate on the critical resources producing this software — your developers, their happiness […]