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AWS – Custom forecast frequencies now supported in Amazon Forecast
Today, Amazon Forecast is excited to announce the ability to customize the forecast frequency, enabling you to more closely align forecast intervals with your demand cycles. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides custom data split options along with an improved experience for creating an AutoML experiment
SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, when creating Autopilot experiment to train a machine learning model, you can customize the splits of data used for training and validation of models. By default Autopilot splits […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight Q Authors can now identify questions that Q did not answer or required user disambiguation to generate an answer
QuickSight Authors can now better analyze user activity; new enhancements to user activity in Topics make it easy for authors to – a. Identify questions that required user disambiguation to generate an answer, b. Filter questions based on whether they were answered or required user disambiguation and c. Filter questions based on the User who […]

AWS – AWS Config conformance pack templates can now be stored in AWS Systems Manager
AWS Config conformance pack templates can now be stored in and deployed from AWS Systems Manager documents (SSM documents). Conformance packs are collections of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. Conformance packs are […]

AWS – AWS SAM CLI esbuild support is now generally available
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces general availability of esbuild support in SAM CLI. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Esbuild, “an extremely fast JavaScript bundler”, links JavaScript ( js , jsx , ts , and tsx […]

AWS – Amazon EBS adds the ability to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance
In May 2019, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) launched the ability for customers to take crash-consistent snapshots of all Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance with a single API call. Now you can choose to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of Amazon EBS data volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. […]

AWS – Enterprise On-Ramp Support is now supported with AWS Outposts
Starting today, customers now have the option of using Enterprise On-Ramp Support or Enterprise Support to satisfy the prerequisite for ordering AWS Outposts. With the addition of Enterprise On-Ramp Support, customers now have more flexibility in selecting the AWS Support plan that best suits their Outposts workloads and support needs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Inspector now supports Windows operating system (OS) for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads
Inspector has added Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019, 2022 support for continual EC2 vulnerability scanning. Customers that have Inspector EC2 scanning already enabled and the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent installed and configured, do not need to take any additional actions. Windows instances will now automatically and continually be scanned for software […]

AWS – Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor version 14.4
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor version 14.4. We recommend you upgrade to this latest minor version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs from prior versions of PostgreSQL. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release. Read More for the details.