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Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides a deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run analytics workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This is an attractive option because it allows you to run applications on a common pool of resources without having to provision infrastructure. In addition, you can use Amazon EMR Studio to build analytics code running on Amazon EKS clusters. EMR Studio is a web-based, integrated development environment (IDE) using fully managed Jupyter notebooks that can be attached to any EMR cluster, including EMR on EKS. It uses AWS ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare data, as well as build, train, and deploy models. With a single click, data scientists and ML developers can quickly spin up SageMaker Studio Notebooks for exploring datasets and building models. Now you can use lifecycle configurations to automate customizations for your Studio development environment. Lifecycle configurations are shell scripts triggered by SageMaker Studio lifecycle events, for example, starting a new Studio notebook ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis auto scaling is now generally available in all public AWS regions excluding AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China (Beijing and Ningxia) Regions. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis auto scaling enables you to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at lower costs. It uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to manage scaling and Amazon CloudWatch metrics to determine when it is time to scale up or down. ElastiCache for Redis supports target tracking and scheduled auto scaling policies. With target tracking, you define a target metric and ElastiCache for Redis adjusts resource capacity in ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS customers can now use managed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with Microsoft Windows Server 2022. With these AMIs, customers can launch Windows Server 2022 and take full advantage of the latest Windows features on AWS. Amazon EC2 makes launching and running Windows Server 2022 easy whether it is for testing and enabling new features in the software, or for scalable adoption of the latest capabilities on compute instances globally. Amazon creates and manages Microsoft Windows Server 2022 AMIs providing a reliable and quick way to launch Windows Server 2022 on EC2 instances. By running Windows Server 2022 ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability for Amazon QuickSight Q. Q is a machine learning-powered natural language capability that empowers business users to ask questions about all of their data using everyday business language and get answers in seconds. For example, users simply type “what is our year-over-year growth rate” and get an instant answer in QuickSight as a visualization. Previously, when business users couldn’t find an answer to their question from their data dashboards, they had to submit ad-hoc requests to their BI teams, which could take several weeks to complete. With Amazon ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Macie now allows you to select which managed data identifiers to use when you create a sensitive data discovery job. This allows you to customize what data types you deem sensitive and would like Macie to alert on per specific data governance and privacy needs in your organization. When you create a job, choose from the growing list of managed data identifiers such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial information, or credential materials that you would like to target for each sensitive data discovery job you configure and run with Macie. Amazon Macie uses a combination of ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports out-of-the-box integration with product purchase history from Salesforce. When a customer calls or messages a contact center for service, Amazon Connect Customer Profiles equips contact center agents with the customer information they need to deliver personalized customer service and resolve issues quickly. Customer Profiles helps make it simple to bring together customer information (e.g., name, address, phone number, contact history, purchase history, open issues) from multiple applications into a unified customer profile, delivering the profile directly to the agent as soon as they begin interacting with the customer. If an agent ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached now supports Graviton2 M6g and R6g instance families in additional regions: South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Seoul), Europe (London, Stockholm), North America (Montreal), US East (GovCloud US East), US West (GovCloud US West), and mainland China (Ningxia, Beijing). Customers choose Amazon ElastiCache for workloads that require blazing-fast performance with sub-millisecond latency and high throughput. Now, with Graviton2 M6g and R6g instances, customers can enjoy up to a 45% price/performance improvement over previous generation instances. Graviton2 instances are now the default choice for Amazon ElastiCache customers. AWS Graviton2 processors ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is now generally available for Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes. AQUA is a new distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that enables Amazon Redshift to run up to 10x faster than other enterprise cloud data warehouses by automatically boosting certain types of queries. AQUA uses AWS-designed processors with AWS Nitro chips adapted to speed up data encryption and compression, and custom analytics processors, implemented in FPGAs, to accelerate operations such as scans, filtering, and aggregation. Amazon Redshift RA3 is the latest generation node type that allows you to scale compute and storage for ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Region. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page. With this launch, Amazon SES is available in 21 AWS regions globally: US East (Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka), Canada (Central), EU (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm, Milano), Middle East ... Read More