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AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana now supports connection to data sources hosted in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports direct connectivity to data sources hosted in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for open-source Grafana that simplifies connecting to open-source, third-party ISV, and AWS services for visualizing and analyzing your data sources at scale. Amazon VPC is a virtual network dedicated to […]

AWS – Amazon Rekognition adds new pre-trained labels, and introduces color detection
Amazon Rekognition Labels is a machine learning-based image and video analysis service that can detect objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. Starting today, customers get multiple improvements and enhancements in Amazon Rekognition Labels for images. In the new update, we have added 600 new labels and improved the accuracy of over 2,000 existing labels. We […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches cluster points for Geospatial Visual
Authors of Amazon QuickSight can now improve readability of points on maps visual by changing the points style to cluster points. When hundreds of data points are clumped together with many of them so close in proximity that they overlap and are not visible, cluster points makes is it easy for readers to find patterns […]

AWS – AWS IoT RoboRunner is now generally available
AWS IoT RoboRunner is an AWS for Robotics service that unlocks new use cases for robotics automation by helping fleets of robots seamlessly work together. AWS IoT RoboRunner reduces the complex development work required to build the applications you need to provide multivendor interoperability. Read More for the details.

GCP – Build a chat server with Cloud Run
With Cloud Run — the fully-managed serverless container platform on Google Cloud — you can quickly and easily deploy applications using standard containers. In this article, we will explain how to build a chat server with Cloud Run using Python as the development language. We will build it with the FastAPI framework, based on this […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 1.15
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 1.15. This new version includes improvements to Flink’s exactly-once processing semantics, Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Firehose connectors, Python User Defined Functions, Flink SQL, and more. The release also includes an AWS-contributed capability, a new Async-Sink framework which simplifies the creation of […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Graviton2 support for Amazon EMR Serverless – Get up to 35% better price-performance for your serverless Spark and Hive workload
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple to run applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hive without configuring, managing, or scaling clusters. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces availability of Microsoft SQL Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 adds support for managed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with SQL Server 2022. With these AMIs, you can easily launch SQL Server 2022 on EC2 and take advantage of the fully compliant SQL Server licenses with per-second billing model. The new AMIs are available for both Windows Server and Linux operating systems. In addition, […]

AWS – Amazon SNS adds support for payload-based message filtering
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports payload-based message filtering, expanding the feature set that already supported attribute-based message filtering. With this release, you can apply subscription filter policies to filter out messages based on their contents, unlocking a variety of workloads. You may use this new capability to filter events from 60+ AWS services […]
AWS – Manage Table metadata in Glue Data Catalog when running Flink workloads on Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR customers can now use AWS Glue Data Catalog from their streaming and batch SQL workflows on Flink. The AWS Glue Data Catalog is an Apache Hive metastore-compatible catalog. You can configure your Flink jobs on Amazon EMR to use the Data Catalog as an external Apache Hive metastore. With this release, You can […]