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Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Generally availability updates for January 2023
New features in GA include the ability to place customized tags, search for machine learning assets, isolate network for managed online endpoints, build custom metrics views, and simplify data security. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Logic Apps and Power Automate integration
Use the Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server connector to connect to MySQL data and build with Power Automate and Logic Apps. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports Memcached 1.6.17
Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached has added support for Memcached version 1.6.17. This version is a cumulative update and contains all changes and improvements from version 1.6.12 to 1.6.17. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now gives recommendations about activating predictive scaling policy
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now helps you easily determine whether adding a predictive scaling policy can further optimize the capacity of your Auto Scaling groups. Predictive scaling policies proactively add EC2 instances to your Auto Scaling group in anticipation of demand spikes. This results in better availability and performance for your applications that have predictable […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud clusters launch up to 30% faster in private subnets with Amazon EMR
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR has made it 30% faster to launch an EMR on EC2 cluster in a private subnet. Customers can get the faster cluster start-up times by simply relaunching their EMR on EC2 private subnet clusters. No further action is needed. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports 250 webcam video streams
The Amazon Chime SDK now supports up to 250 webcam video streams per WebRTC session. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Every WebRTC attendee can enable webcam video and view any combination of up to 25 webcam video streams from other […]
AWS – EBS direct APIs are now available in new AWS Europe and Asia Pacific Regions
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs in the AWS Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions to create EBS snapshots of their block storage data regardless of where it resides, including on-premises. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless introduces account-level vCPU-based service quota
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today we are introducing a new service quota called Max concurrent vCPUs per account. This vCPU-based quota allows you to set […]
AWS – Validate AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) templates with CloudFormation Linter to speed up development
AWS CloudFormation announces support for CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) in AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (AWS SAM CLI). The cfn-lint tool validates your SAM JSON/YAML template against CloudFormation-based rules, and returns diagnostic error messages. With this launch, you can use an optional parameter —lint in sam validate command to run cfn-lint validations on your […]
AWS – Announcing SKU pricing rules for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, customers can create SKU pricing rules in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC). An AWS SKU uniquely combines product (service code), Usage Type, and Operation for an AWS resource. Using SKU pricing rules, customers can change the rate for any resource running in their environment. For example, an AWS partner can use a SKU pricing […]