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AWS – Amazon ECS now launches tasks faster alongside tasks with prolonged shutdown
Amazon Elastic Container Services(Amazon ECS) now enables faster task launches on container instances that have tasks with prolonged shutdown. This enables customers to scale their workloads faster and improve infrastructure utilization. Read More for the details.

AWS – 3rd Party Event Ingestion for AWS Incident Detection & Response
AWS Incident Detection and Response now supports ingestion of events from third party Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools via Amazon EventBridge. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive monitoring and incident management to increase workload resiliency and accelerate recovery from critical incidents. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect now available in three additional AWS Regions
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Elemental MediaConnect in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (Central), and Africa (Cape Town) AWS Regions, allowing you to ingest, transport, and process your high-quality video in the cloud in more locations globally. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph now supports showing query results in scenes
Today, AWS announced the ability to visualize AWS IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph query results in its 3D scenes. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for customers to create digital twins of real-world systems, and TwinMaker Knowledge Graph knowledge graph structures and organizes information about the digital twin for easier access and understanding. This launch updates […]

AWS – AWS App Runner adds support to update and rebuild a failed service
AWS App Runner adds support for editing and rebuilding a failed service. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and minimizing the need to manage infrastructure. Read More for the details.

AWS – RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now provides improved developer productivity
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with the new RStudio Workbench version 2023.03 with enhanced developer productivity capabilities. The new capabilities include improvements to auto-completion and accessibility and support for R-4.3.0. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports dashboard variables
We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch dashboard variables, a new experience that makes it easier for you to quickly navigate between different operational views by using variables as navigation to view different data sets for the same resource. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports time to live (TTL) in online store
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to set a time to live (TTL) for records in the online store. The online store contains the most recent features and is used for low latency model serving. With this launch, you can now set a TTL duration after which a record will be hard deleted, […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for Apache Parquet file format
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports the Apache Parquet file format, enabling additional file formats for tabular, time-series forecast, and NLP datasets. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift adds support for Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon GameLift now supports Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, […]