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AWS – AWS Organizations tag policies are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Organizations tag policies are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The tag policies feature is available to customers through the AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Personalize enables customers to measure the impact of their recommendations
Today, Amazon Personalize launches the ability for customers to measure the business impact of their Personalize recommendations. Amazon Personalize is a fully managed machine learning service that allows customers to deliver personalized experiences to their users, no ML experience required. Customers can now evaluate the sum or count of any user interaction with a Personalize recommendation […]

AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker now supports camera view and sub-model selection
Starting today, AWS IoT TwinMaker Scene Composer will support two new features, Camera View and Sub-model Selection, which make it easier for customers to navigate complex 3D models in digital twins. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker now supports data connector to Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena data connector for AWS IoT TwinMaker is now available to all customers. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service using standard SQL. The Amazon Athena data connector enables you to connect your tabular data from the Amazon Athena data store to […]

AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 18
AWS Lambda now supports Node.js 18 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Node.js 18 can take advantage of new features such as an upgrade of the bundled AWS SDK for JavaScript to v3 and improved support for deploying ES Modules using Lambda layers. This […]

AWS – Amazon Athena enhances Apache Iceberg table operations and file format support
Amazon Athena has added SQL commands and file formats that simplify the storage, transformation, and maintenance of data stored in Apache Iceberg tables. These new capabilities enable data engineers and analysts to combine more of the familiar conveniences of SQL with the transactional properties of Iceberg to enable efficient and robust analytics use cases. Read […]

AWS – Announcing General Availability for Amazon WorkSpaces Integration with SAML 2.0
We are happy to announce general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces integration with SAML 2.0. As an administrator, you can now enable SAML 2.0 authentication on your WorkSpaces directory to control end user access to desktops by using your SAML 2.0 identity provider (IdP). Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing certificate-based authentication for Amazon WorkSpaces
Starting today, you can use certificate-based authentication with Amazon WorkSpaces SAML 2.0 integration to remove the logon prompt for the Active Directory domain password. Read More for the details.

AWS – Observe and monitor SAP NetWeaver applications with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now offers support for observability of SAP NetWeaver applications. AWS customers running SAP workloads such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP and SAP Business Warehouse on AWS can now observe the entire SAP stack, from AWS infrastructure all the way to the SAP applications. This launch builds on our previous announcement of […]
GCP – How to run a large scale ML workflow on Dataflow ML for autonomous driving
Developing autonomous driving technology is a battle with data, both from a volume and data format point of view. Sources include point cloud 3D data obtained from LIDAR, video data obtained from multiple cameras, GPS position information, millimeter-wave radar, steering and various sensor information. Even in a busy city, less than 1% of the raw […]