Today, Amazon EMR has announced support for long running fault-tolerant SQL queries on Trino engine (Project Tardigrade) with checkpointing in Amazon S3 or HDFS for fault-tolerance. Project Tardigrade aims to improve the user experience of long running, resource intensive queries on Trino, when used for ETL style workloads. Project Tardigrade uses Amazon S3 for checkpointing […]

Amazon EventBridge introduces new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules. Amazon EventBridge now supports generating CloudFormation templates from the rules and buses console pages. CloudFormation templates help provision and manage the configuration of event buses and rules, and you can now export your existing configurations in the console directly to a CloudFormation template. […]

Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Textract now provides you the capability to detect handwritten signatures, e-signatures, and initials on documents such as loan application forms, checks, claim forms and more. AnalyzeDocument Signatures reduces the need for human reviewers and helps […]

AWS X-ray adds support for trace linking, enabling customers to visualize, and debug requests as they travel through event-driven applications built using Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and AWS Lambda. Using trace linking, customers can now see the relationships between services and resources in their event-driven applications leveraging Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda, quickly identify performance bottlenecks, […]

AWS Glue crawlers now support Snowflake, making it easier for you to understand updates to Snowflake schema and extract meaningful insights. Read More for the details.

Amazon QuickSight launches an asset management console for administrators. With an interactive UI, administrators can now list and search all account assets regardless of who the owner of these assets are. They can list all the assets a user or group has access to including in a multi-tenant environment. They can perform asset level or bulk […]

Starting today, AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) customers can manage the session duration (between 15 mins and 7 days) for AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) and SDKs sessions. With this release, when you set access portal session duration for your organization in IAM Identity Center, it also applies to AWS CLI […]

Amazon QuickSight now fully support NULL in parameter use. Parameter, as a place holder for single value or multi-value variables, is a powerful and widely used entity in QuickSight. Previously, NULL is not supported as a valid value for parameter, which created some discrepancies when user data has NULL value in it. With the full enablement […]

Amazon Connect Chat now allows you to configure timeouts for chat conversations between a customer and an Amazon Lex chatbot. This enables you to define how long to wait for a response from the customer (e.g. 5 minutes) before the session expires. Read More for the details.

Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a new connector for QuickSight that will enable customers to natively connect to Databricks. This launch allows you to connect to and visualize data from the Databricks E2 version of the platform. Read More for the details.