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AWS – Amazon Neptune Serverless is now generally available
Amazon Neptune Serverless is a new deployment option that automatically scales capacity based on the needs of the application, making it easy and cost effective for developers to run graph databases without managing database capacity. Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, […]

AWS – Amazon Connect adds real-time schedule adherence
Amazon Connect now includes the ability to view agent schedule adherence in real-time as part of the forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling capabilities (preview). Within the real-time metrics page, contact center supervisors can identify when agents deviate from their planned schedule, enabling supervisors to quickly take action to help improve agent productivity. For example, if […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search to enable use cases that require reproducibility of hyperparameter tuning. Grid search will cover every combination of the specified hyperparameter values and yield reproducible tuning results. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring, a new Visual Studio extension
The AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring is a new extension for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. The extension helps transform your legacy .NET Framework applications to a modern, cloud-optimized architecture letting you fully leverage the benefits of reduced cost, increased up time, and improved scalability. It extends the functionality of Porting […]

AWS – AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces a mode for short-lived certificates
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now offers short-lived certificate mode, a lower cost mode of AWS Private CA designed for issuing short-lived certificates. With this new mode, public key infrastructure (PKI) administrators, builders, and developers can save money when issuing certificates with validity periods of 7 days or fewer. If you use certificates […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access for WSP now includes 7 new features, including bi-directional audio/video
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports the following new features for WorkSpaces Web Access using the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP): Bi-directional audio/video – IT administrators can make video conferencing and other tools that use webcam and microphone available to their end users who use Web Access, to enhance the ability of teams to collaborate from anywhere. Clipboard […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports tags to track and allocate costs incurred by users
We are excited to announce the support of assigning tags to user-profiles created within Amazon SageMaker. This enables you to track Amazon SageMaker Canvas usage costs categorized by users, departments, lines of businesses, or cost centers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS
Get reliability and consistency from cloud to edge across the AKS using the Mariner container optimized OS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure CNI Powered by Cilium
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing. Read More for the details.