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Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Amy Windju. On February 14, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document was leaked concerning proposed changes to regulations for the small commercial drone industry in the United States.  The following day, the FAA issued a statement confirming what these changes may be. My previous blog post focused on how American tech giants such as Amazon and Google have left the U.S. to conduct drone testing as FAA regulations prohibited these companies from conducting testing in the U.S. Now, it appears the FAA has changed course and will now permit the flight of small drones in ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware is a service that delivers AWS-managed relational databases in on-premises VMware environments. RDS on VMware automates time-consuming administration tasks such as database provisioning, operating system and database patching, backups, point-in-time restore, and database instance health monitoring. It makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale databases in your on-premises VMware vSphere environments, freeing you to focus on your applications ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Using JasperReports Server, you can create, share, and manage reports, dashboards, and data visualizations. JasperReports Server can run as a standalone server, or it can be embedded into web applications. JasperReports Server is designed with automatic detection functionality for connecting to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon EMR. To get started: For additional AWS Quick Start reference deployments, see our complete catalog. Quick Starts are automated reference deployments that use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy key technologies on AWS, following AWS best practices. This Quick Start was built by TIBCO in collaboration with ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 supports 4K Ultra HD resolution on 2 monitors and 2K resolution on 4 monitors. For any AppStream 2.0 instance type, you can use up to four monitors, with a maximum display resolution of 2560x1600 per monitor. Graphics instance types support use of up to two 4K monitors. To use this feature, you must start your streaming session with the AppStream 2.0 Windows client. In addition, you must use an AppStream 2.0 image that uses a version of the AppStream 2.0 agent released on or after September 23, 2019.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Deep Learning (DL) Containers now support PyTorch. AWS DL Containers are Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks to make it easy to setup and deploy custom machine learning environments. Docker images for training and inference with PyTorch are now available through Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) free of charge—you pay only for the resources that you use. You can deploy AWS DL Containers on Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), self-managed Kubernetes on Amazon EC2, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS).   ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The new capability to expand allows your Amazon MSK cluster to scale out as your business grows by dynamically increasing the number of brokers within a cluster. The use of 2-AZ clusters is a good option for customers who already run Apache Kafka brokers in two AZs or use a replication factor of 2 by default. Visit the Amazon MSK developer guide for information on how to use these new features. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query uses the SPARQL service keyword. The keyword included in the query identifies the location of the SPARQL endpoint to retrieve the data. Neptune SPARQL federation can also be enabled to use federate against another Neptune cluster that is secured by the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. Customers need to ensure the federated SPARQL endpoint adheres to the data model and security requirements. There are no additional charges to use federated query as long as the data transfer is within the VPC. Customers can try out federated query today. Please refer to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Chime users can now screen share from Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without installing any extensions or downloading a plug-in on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS desktop devices. Chime now leverages the Web APIs available in Mozilla Firefox version 66 and higher or Google Chrome version 72 and higher to deliver native screen share capabilities. In three clicks, any attendee using these browsers can join a Chime meeting and start sharing an application window or the entire screen with other participants. There is no need for pre-meeting testing or setup as all attendees, even ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EKS is a highly-available, scalable, and secure Kubernetes service. Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure (control plane) for you and is certified Kubernetes conformant so you can use existing tooling and plugins from the Kubernetes community and AWS partners.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now view visualizations of past pipeline executions in AWS CodePipeline. Previously, you were only able to see information about actions that ran in a failed pipeline execution. Now, when an execution fails, you will also see the actions that did not run enabling easier debugging of pipeline failures. When your pipeline has concurrent executions, you are now able to view visualizations of the individual executions making understanding the status of an execution much simpler ... Read More