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AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector introduces Cold Start model training for customers with limited historical data
Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announced the launch of the Cold Start feature. Now customers can start training a sign-up or a transaction frauds detection model with minimal historical-data. Up to now, AFD customers were required to provide 10K+ labeled events with at least 400 examples of fraud to train a model. With the release of […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction from structured logs
Amazon CloudWatch now supports high resolution metric extraction with up to 1 second granularity from structured logs using Embedded Metric Format (EMF). Customers can now provide an optional “StorageResolution” parameter within EMF specification logs with a value of 1 or 60 (default) to indicate the desired resolution (in seconds) of the metric. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports fast schedule updates in Channel Assembly
You can now make changes to an AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel closer to the live edge. When a channel is running and content is playing, it is often necessary to amend the schedule quickly in reaction to unplanned or non-determined events. For example, cutting from a live source to a VOD source after a live […]
AWS – AWS SimSpace Weaver now supports CloudFormation
With today’s announcement, you can now use CloudFormation templates to setup, run, and clean-up AWS SimSpace Weaver simulations. AWS SimSpace Weaver is a fully managed compute service that helps customers deploy large spatial simulations in the cloud. Launched at AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS SimSpace Weaver allows customers to create seamless virtual worlds with millions of […]
AWS – AWS Glue Crawlers now support MongoDB Atlas
AWS Glue Crawlers support MongoDB to extract the data schema and automatically populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. Today we are expanding the support to include MongoDB Atlas. This feature makes it much simpler to bring the managed MongoDB Atlas metadata into the AWS Glue Data Catalog, so that data engineers […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports a more flexible way of approving change requests
Change Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, helps customers request, approve, implement, and report on operational changes to their application configuration and infrastructure on AWS and on premises. With this launch, customers can now set a required number of approvers for a change request before adding all eligible approvers. This provides requesters with additional […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar now provides a more comprehensive calendar view of operational events
Change Calendar, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now helps customers view their operational events, such as maintenance windows, state manager associations, and planned automation executions alongside their business-critical events. Using Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control the changes made to your AWS resources during events, such as public marketing promotions and […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports seg extension
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the seg extension which provides the “seg” data type for representing line segments or floating point intervals. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to choose between regional, dual-region and multi-region Cloud Storage
Data in Cloud Storage is not tied to any one disk, machine or data warehouse. This makes the data more accessible to its intended users, who may be scattered across the globe. As a Cloud Storage administrator, you have the ability to choose whether your data will reside in a single region or a group […]
GCP – How to migrate Cloud Storage data from multi-region to regional
There are many considerations to take into account when choosing the location type of your Cloud Storage bucket. However, as business needs change, you may find that regional storage offers lower cost and/or better performance than multi-region or dual-region storage. By design, once your data is already stored in a bucket, the location type of […]