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AWS – Amazon Quicksight adds Missing Data control for line and area charts
Amazon QuickSight now supports ‘Missing Data’ control for both line and area charts. Previously, line charts only supported ‘missing data’ treatment for datetime fields. Now, we have added support for categorical data as well for both line and area charts. Instead of displaying broken lines (default behavior), Authors can also choose to display broken lines as […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito enables time-based-one-time-password (TOTP) self-enrollment in hosted UI
Amazon Cognito hosted UI now enables end users to register their own authenticator apps. Customers can now enable users to self-enroll in either SMS based one-time-passwords (OTP) or a time-based-one-time-password (TOTP) authenticator app. Administrators no longer have to initiate end user enrollment when using TOTP with hosted UI. With this new addition, developers using hosted […]

AWS – Amazon WorkDocs adds support for Apple Silicon MacBooks
Today Amazon WorkDocs, a fully managed product for creating, sharing, and enriching digital content, announced the General Availability of an Apple Silicon (M1, M2) compatible WorkDocs Drive. Apple Silicon support for WorkDocs makes it easy for customers with Apple Silicon MacBooks to install and sync WorkDocs files on their devices. Read More for the details.

GCP – Twitter: Helping customers find meaningful Spaces with AutoML
Editor’s note: Since launching its Spaces feature, Twitter has demonstrated that hearing people’s voices can bring conversations on Twitter to life in a completely new way. Next, it aimed to make it easier for customers to join and listen to live conversations they personally care about. In this blog, we learn how the Twitter Spaces […]

GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 6 tips to optimize data management and analytics
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google Cloud Big Data & Analytics Consultant Julianne Cuneo explores how to get started using […]

AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs can now be delivered to Amazon Kinesis Firehose
You can now deliver Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs directly to Amazon Kinesis Firehose, allowing you to stream your flow logs real-time to destinations supported by Amazon Kinesis Firehose or downstream logging solutions via custom HTTP endpoints. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Fargate announces migration of service quotas to vCPU-based quotas
AWS Fargate (Fargate), the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), recently announced the migration of service quotas from the current Amazon ECS task and Amazon EKS pod count-based quotas to vCPU-based quotas. The migration to vCPU quotas will not have any impact on your running tasks and […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces additional capabilities to explore and analyze data with advanced visualizations
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces additional capabilities for exploratory data analysis (EDA) with advanced visualizations, enabling you to explore and analyze your data better before building machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience […]

AWS – Introducing Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images
Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology open sourced by AWS that enables containers to launch faster by lazily loading the container image. SOCI works by creating an index (SOCI Index) of the files within an existing container image. This index is a key enabler to launching containers faster, providing the capability to extract an individual […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in two additional AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect is available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions. Read More for the details.