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AWS – AWS Health Dashboard streamlines service transparency via Connector for ServiceNow
Starting today, customers can now view AWS Health and service status availability powered by AWS Health Dashboard in the Connector for ServiceNow. AWS Health provides ongoing visibility into resource performance and the availability of AWS services. Customers can view the AWS Health Dashboard to get relevant and timely information to help manage events in progress, […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Change Manager integration now displays AWS CloudTrail events associated with ServiceNow change requests.
Starting today, customers can view CloudTrail event logs corresponding to a change request using AWS Systems Manager Change Manager ServiceNow Connector. The integration helps customers understand which resources were impacted by the change request, thereby providing customers with more visibility into the change request execution. AWS Systems Manager Change Manager helps customers request, approve, implement, and […]

AWS – Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager now streamlines responses to ServiceNow Incidents
Starting today, customers who use ServiceNow can respond, investigate and resolve incidents affecting their AWS-hosted applications using AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager and the AWS Service Management Connector. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for AWS applications and resources, that helps to automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. With the Incident Manager integration […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon R6id instances
AWS announces the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6id instances. R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, and up to 15% better price performance than R5d instances. Furthermore, R6id instances […]

AWS – Amazon Transcribe real-time streaming is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce availability of Amazon Transcribe streaming APIs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2014 SP3 CU4 SU
A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor version for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Feature general availability and feature expansion of regional availability
Various Azure NetApp Files features have reached general availability and regional coverage has been expanded for Azure NetApp Files cross-region replication. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Expanded feature regional availability for standard network features
Regional coverage has expanded for Azure NetApp Files for standard network features. Read More for the details.

AWS – Split data into train and test sets in a few clicks with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today we are announcing the general availability of splitting data into train and test splits with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and […]
AWS – Export features into Amazon SageMaker Feature Store faster than ever with export functionality now available in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today, you can export features into Amazon SageMaker Feature Store faster than ever with export functionality now available in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of […]