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AWS – Amazon EC2 M6gd instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6gd instances are available in Europe (Paris) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift improves the experience for encrypting the data warehouse
Amazon Redshift offers comprehensive encryption capabilities to protect your data at rest. Now, Amazon Redshift further enhances the experience of encrypting the warehouse with RA3 node types by reducing the overall encryption time and improving the availability of the warehouse during the encryption process. Read More for the details.

AWS – Transform data into ML features using SageMaker Feature Store feature processing
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature processing, a new capability that enables you to transform data into ML features. With this launch, you simply provide a data source, and the transformation function you want to perform on the data and SageMaker Feature Store takes care of processing the data into ML features. Read More […]

AWS – AWS Application Discovery Service introduces Amazon EC2 recommendations
Today, AWS Application Discovery Service introduces a public API to estimate the cost of running your existing on-premises servers in AWS. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR now publishes events for insufficient instance capacity errors
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now publishes events for insufficient instance capacity. This launch makes it simpler for customers to troubleshoot EC2 instance capacity issues by providing them an easy way to view which instance types have insufficient capacity. Additionally, customers can use these events to create rules to be notified […]

AWS – Announcing service-scoped free tier pricing rules for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, customers can create proforma pricing rules to control the application of free tier offers for specific AWS services in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC). Using service-scoped free tier pricing rules, customers can model a proforma chargeback workflow that only shares their always free tier benefits with a targeted set of accounts, those within a […]

AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports filtering selected items by properties of the input item
Amazon Personalize announces the ability to filter (include or exclude) recommendations for Related Items recipes based on the properties of the input or query item (e.g. the CurrentItem). Prior to this launch, Personalize customers could filter items based on dataset properties such as category or price range. Customers could also filter recommendations based on properties […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family announces Drummond Group Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) Certification
AWS Transfer Family has earned the official Drummond Group AS2 Cloud Certification Seal. Drummond Group is an independent provider of testing and certification services for various industry standards and protocols. This certification verifies that AWS Transfer Family’s Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) capabilities are compatible and interoperable with fourteen third-party AS2 vendors commonly used for business-to-business […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) T4g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka), Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with […]
GCP – From Google Cloud startup, to $1B company: startup advice from Replit’s Amjad Masad
In our daily lives we are already seeing examples of the game changing possibilities of generative AI. From coding and customer support automation to marketing content creation (including this blog, written with the help of gen AI), we are at the very beginning of the power of gen AI and the startup opportunities it will […]