Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Scale Compute
Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. To create an Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle DB instance, you start by building a custom engine version (CEV) by supplying your own database installation media files for a given version. You can create a CEV by choosing the ‘Create’ operation under Custom engine version menu in AWS Management Console or by using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ... Read More
The Amazon Chime SDK announces elastic channels
Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon Chime SDK enables developers to add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, Amazon Chime SDK messaging supports large-scale chat experiences for up to one million users with elastic channels. Use cases include watch parties for sporting events, political events, or live entertainment with create elastic channels. Elastic channels help make it easy for you to create secure, scalable, moderated chat experiences for large audiences which you can use with your built in moderation features to help enforce brand, corporate, or community guidelines. Previously, Amazon Chime SDK ... Read More
Creating a Multi-stage Computer Vision model to detect objects on high-resolution imagery

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Neela Niranjani Vengateshwaran. This project and corresponding article was co-developed by Neela Vengateshwaran and Robert Blanchard. Overview SAS offers great flexibility using a “Bring Your Own Language” (BYOL) strategy that lets users code in the language of their choice. Brian Gaines offers an excellent introduction to building computer vision models using the SAS language for an image classification task in a community article: How to Develop SAS Code to Train a Deep Learning Model for Image Classification - SAS Support Communities. Susan Kahler details examples of leveraging SAS Deep Learning from Python using SAS DLPy in her ... Read More
AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g, M6gd, C6g, and R6g are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Feed: Recent Announcements. With this regional expansion, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, R6g instances are now available across US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Seoul), Canada (Central), China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US) regions. Additionally, Amazon EC2 M6g and C6g are also available in Middle East (Bahrain) region and C6g is also available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Amazon EC2 M6gd is now available across AWS US East ... Read More
Amazon EMR on EKS gets up to 19% performance boost running on AWS Graviton3 Processors vs. Graviton2

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon EMR on EKS is a deployment option that enables you to run Spark workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) easily. It allows you to innovate faster with the latest Apache Spark on Kubernetes architecture while benefiting from the performance-optimized Spark runtime powered by Amazon EMR. This deployment option elects Amazon EKS as its underlying compute to orchestrate containerized Spark applications with better price performance. AWS continually innovates to provide choice and better price-performance for our customers, and the third-generation Graviton processor is the next step in the journey. Amazon EMR on EKS ... Read More
Amazon Personalize now supports incremental bulk dataset imports
Feed: Recent Announcements. We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now supports incremental bulk dataset imports; a new option for updating your data and improving the quality of your recommendations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Previously, Amazon Personalize supported two types of data ingestion: full bulk dataset imports for ingesting large datasets, and APIs (PutEvents, PutItems, PutUsers) for real-time ingestion. Now you can keep your existing datasets intact and add new bulk-loaded data without resupplying your entire dataset. Amazon Personalize will automatically update records with the ... Read More
AWS DeepRacer Student now offers community races and new Intel learning content with a look under the hood of the DeepRacer vehicle
Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS DeepRacer Student, presented by Intel, is the first global autonomous racing league for students offering free educational material and resources to get hands on with machine learning (ML) by powering a 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning. Now available are student community races and additional learning content diving into the OpenVINO™ toolkit by Intel on machine learning inference. With AWS DeepRacer Student community races, educators and event organizers can now create their own private virtual race and invite students to compete through the AWS DeepRacer console. Educators can select their own track, race date, ... Read More
Introducing 2022 AWS Partner Award Nominations
Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Andrew Somera. By Andrew Somera, Head of AWS Partner Communications, Content, and Enablement The 2022 AWS Partner Awards honor partners who have demonstrated outstanding results and innovation with the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and solutions. These awards are an acknowledgment of exceptional partner success and innovations. AWS Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the-cloud and traditional services, software, and hardware partners whose business models have embraced specialization and collaboration. Nomination-Based Award Categories New this year, AWS Partners can self-nominate themselves to be considered across a variety of AWS Partner ... Read More
Announcing the Future of Government Awards to recognize leaders in digital transformation

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Pete Herlihy. Nominations are now open for the Future of Government Awards, a new global awards program to recognize the people and projects leading the digital transformation of governments around the world. The awards are co-sponsored by the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a thought leadership and executive education program to accelerate digital transformation in the public sector; the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change; and Apolitical, a global network and learning platform for government with a mission to ... Read More
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics makes it easy to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Opensearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB streams, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), custom integrations, and more using built-in connectors. You can learn more about Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache ... Read More
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