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AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.30
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.30. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and, to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon Personalize increases limits for all customers, simplifying large scale deployments
We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize is increasing service limits and quotas for existing and new customers, making it easier to deploy Personalize at scale. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Prior to this launch, limits on the use of certain […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink supports three new container level metrics and improved CloudFormation support
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now publishes three new container-level metrics to Amazon CloudWatch: CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization of Flink Task Managers. Task Managers are the worker nodes of a Flink application that perform the data processing. These new metrics provide enhanced visibility to Task Manager resource usage and can be […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports deploying large models through configurable volume size and timeout quotas
Amazon SageMaker enables customers to deploy ML models to make predictions (also known as inference) for any use case. You can now deploy large models (up to 500GB) for inference on Amazon SageMaker’s Real-time and Asynchronous Inference options by configuring the maximum EBS volume size and timeout quotas. This launch enables customers to leverage SageMaker’s […]

AWS – Amazon Quicksight adds Missing Data control for line and area charts
Amazon QuickSight now supports ‘Missing Data’ control for both line and area charts. Previously, line charts only supported ‘missing data’ treatment for datetime fields. Now, we have added support for categorical data as well for both line and area charts. Instead of displaying broken lines (default behavior), Authors can also choose to display broken lines as […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito enables time-based-one-time-password (TOTP) self-enrollment in hosted UI
Amazon Cognito hosted UI now enables end users to register their own authenticator apps. Customers can now enable users to self-enroll in either SMS based one-time-passwords (OTP) or a time-based-one-time-password (TOTP) authenticator app. Administrators no longer have to initiate end user enrollment when using TOTP with hosted UI. With this new addition, developers using hosted […]

AWS – Amazon WorkDocs adds support for Apple Silicon MacBooks
Today Amazon WorkDocs, a fully managed product for creating, sharing, and enriching digital content, announced the General Availability of an Apple Silicon (M1, M2) compatible WorkDocs Drive. Apple Silicon support for WorkDocs makes it easy for customers with Apple Silicon MacBooks to install and sync WorkDocs files on their devices. Read More for the details.

GCP – Twitter: Helping customers find meaningful Spaces with AutoML
Editor’s note: Since launching its Spaces feature, Twitter has demonstrated that hearing people’s voices can bring conversations on Twitter to life in a completely new way. Next, it aimed to make it easier for customers to join and listen to live conversations they personally care about. In this blog, we learn how the Twitter Spaces […]

GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 6 tips to optimize data management and analytics
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google Cloud Big Data & Analytics Consultant Julianne Cuneo explores how to get started using […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs can now be delivered to Amazon Kinesis Firehose
You can now deliver Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs directly to Amazon Kinesis Firehose, allowing you to stream your flow logs real-time to destinations supported by Amazon Kinesis Firehose or downstream logging solutions via custom HTTP endpoints. Read More for the details.