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AWS – Amazon EC2 DescribeImages API now supports pagination
Amazon EC2 announces pagination for the EC2 DescribeImages API. It allows you to describe your images over a number of API requests, instead a single one. You can specify a page size when calling the API, which will be used as the upper bound for resources to return in a single request. A pagination token […]

AWS – Announcing the new security widget on AWS Console Home
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new Security Hub widget on AWS Console Home, providing a summary of your security posture generated by the security checks that you have enabled in your account using AWS Security Hub. Read More for the details.

AWS – Better reproducibility with SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now gives you the option to set the seed to generate random hyperparameters for more reproducible tuning results. This enables use cases where you need to be able to reproduce your tuning job results, such as for compliance or regulatory reasons. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Starting today, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is available for use in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region
Starting today, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is available for use in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces enables AWS Lambda aliases as service endpoints
On December 15 2022, AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces launched support for AWS Lambda aliases as Refactor Spaces Service endpoints. You can now use Lambda aliases with Refactor Spaces to route traffic to specific versions of a Lambda function and configure provisioned concurrency to mitigate Lambda cold starts. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch alarms to improve safety for deployments
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced a new feature that enables customers to add automated safeguards for Amazon ECS service rolling updates. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This enables you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for […]

AWS – AWS announces Systems Manager Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler, based on AWS Solutions’ Instance Scheduler. Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler provides a user interface in the console which enables you to easily configure schedules for your instances to optimize compute capacity and save costs across accounts and Regions in your Organization. […]

AWS – Service Quotas is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition adds labels and improves accuracy of existing labels for video
Amazon Rekognition Labels is a machine learning-based image and video analysis service that can detect objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. On 11/23/2022, we launched an update to the machine learning model of Amazon Rekognition Labels Image to add 600 labels and improve the accuracy of over 2,000 existing labels. We also added an ability […]