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AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature metadata and search
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, search, and share machine learning (ML) features. The service provides feature management capabilities such as enabling easy feature reuse, low latency serving, time travel, and ensuring consistency between features used in training and inference workflows. A feature group is a logical grouping […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports additional performance history retention periods
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights now allows you to choose retention periods for your performance history that range from one month up to 24 months. You can also use the RDS Performance Insights free tier, which includes seven days of performance data history and one million API requests per month. We have […]

GCP – How Google is preparing for a post-quantum world
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Tuesday announced the completion of the third round of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization process, and we are pleased to share that a submission (SPHINCS+) with Google’s involvement was selected for standardization. Two submissions (Classic McEliece, BIKE) are being considered for the next round. We want […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store adds operational metrics to easily monitor feature groups
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, search, and share machine learning (ML) features. The service provides feature management capabilities such as enabling easy feature reuse, low latency serving, time travel, and ensuring consistency between features used in training and inference. Until today, SageMaker Feature Store monitoring was limited to consumed read […]

AWS – Announcing quota management for Amazon Location Service
Amazon Location Service now supports quota management. Developers can create Amazon CloudWatch alarms that notify them when their usage of any API is close to their quota limit for that API. These alarms help developers ensure operational continuity, prevent service throttling, and protect from unintentional spend. Additionally, developers can use AWS Service Quotas to view, manage, […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now allows adding new features to existing feature groups
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, search, and share machine learning (ML) features. The service provides feature management capabilities such as enabling easy feature reuse, low latency serving, time travel, and ensuring consistency between features used in training and inference workflows. A feature group is a logical grouping […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches APIs for account create
Amazon QuickSight now supports APIs for QuickSight account creation. Administrators and developers can automate deployment of QuickSight accounts in their organization at scale. You can now programmatically create accounts with QuickSight Enterprise and Enterprise + Q editions. For more information, visit here. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Enabling JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
You can now use jointly developed guidance from Red Hat and Microsoft to get JBoss EAP applications up and running quickly on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: User-assigned Managed Identity support for Azure Monitor Agent
Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) provides a secure, cost-effective, simplified, performant way to collect telemetry data from IaaS resources. It now supports installation and authentication at-scale using Managed Identity user-assigned mode. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Container Insights now supports Windows Server 2022
Container Insights now supports the Windows Server 2022 operating system. Read More for the details.