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AWS – Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports read replicas for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports Read Replicas. Amazon RDS Read Replicas provide enhanced performance and durability for RDS database (DB) instances. They provide the option to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. You can create one or more replicas […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region
AWS Elemental MediaConvert is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region. You may now configure and submit MediaConvert jobs using the console or API endpoints within the Africa (Cape Town) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and US West (N. California) Regions
AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and US West (N. California) regions. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and centrally manage their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications across your AWS organization. You can […]

AWS – AWS IoT Device Client V1.8 now available through Elastic Container Registry with enhanced functionality
AWS IoT Device Client introduces a new version 1.8 which provides docker images, PowerPC architectures support, and an implementation to use the new “AWS Run-Command” Job Template. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FinSpace web and data access events now available in AWS CloudTrail
Amazon FinSpace now provides customers with additional user activity monitoring options through logging of web application and data access events to AWS CloudTrail. Amazon FinSpace is a managed analytic data hub for capital markets customers that enables analysts and data engineers to access data from multiple sources and transform it using FinSpace’s managed Apache Spark […]

AWS – Renate an open source python library for automatic model re-training
Today we announce the general availability of Renate, an open-source Python library for automatic model re-training. The library implements continual learning algorithms to train deep neural networks incrementally when new data becomes available. Read More for the details.

AWS – Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models, is now available
We are excited to announce the general availability of Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models. Fortuna provides calibration methods, such as conformal prediction, that can be applied to any trained neural network to obtain calibrated uncertainty estimates. The library further supports a number of Bayesian inference methods that can be applied […]

AWS – Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available in new Middle East, Europe, and Asia Pacific Regions
With the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in AWS Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions, customers in these regions can save up to 75% on storage costs for Amazon EBS Snapshots that they rarely access and intend to retain for more than 90 days. Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports VPC endpoint policies
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports VPC endpoint policies configured using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on operational metrics at scale. It does this without you having to manage the underlying infrastructure required to scale and secure […]