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AWS – AWS Fargate announces migration of service quotas to vCPU-based quotas
AWS Fargate (Fargate), the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), recently announced the migration of service quotas from the current Amazon ECS task and Amazon EKS pod count-based quotas to vCPU-based quotas. The migration to vCPU quotas will not have any impact on your running tasks and […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces additional capabilities to explore and analyze data with advanced visualizations
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces additional capabilities for exploratory data analysis (EDA) with advanced visualizations, enabling you to explore and analyze your data better before building machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience […]

AWS – Introducing Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images
Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology open sourced by AWS that enables containers to launch faster by lazily loading the container image. SOCI works by creating an index (SOCI Index) of the files within an existing container image. This index is a key enabler to launching containers faster, providing the capability to extract an individual […]

AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in two additional AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect is available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transit Gateway adds Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast support in two additional AWS regions
Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet group management protocol (IGMP) multicast in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Backup adds Amazon CloudWatch metrics to its console dashboard
AWS Backup now provides you a way to centrally view your Amazon CloudWatch metrics for your data protection jobs, directly in the AWS Backup console. With this launch, you can monitor your data protection metrics (of backup, copy, and restore jobs) for all the AWS Backup supported services, spanning compute, storage, databases, and third-party applications. […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation announces new language extensions transform
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability of a new transform supporting extensions to the CloudFormation template language. AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by authoring templates which are formatted text files in JSON or YAML. This release introduces a language transform […]

AWS – Now track user identity for API calls from Amazon SageMaker Studio in AWS CloudTrail
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. SageMaker Studio is integrated with AWS CloudTrail to enable administrators to monitor and audit user activity and […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight Q is now available in four new regions
QuickSight Q is now available in four new regions (in addition to six existing regions) – Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) and Canada (Central). AWS customers can signup for QuickSight in these four new regions in addition to existing regions, details can also be found at AWS QuickSight Q regions. Get started with a free […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are now available in an additional region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Tokyo). C6id, M6id and R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, and up to 15% […]