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Amazon Releases a Preview of the New AWS Tools for PowerShell
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced it would release a preview of refactored AWS Tools for PowerShell, allowing developers and administrators to manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.
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Predicting the Future, Amazon Forecast Reaches General Availability
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Forecast, a fully managed, time series data forecasting service. Amazon Forecast uses deep learning from multiple datasets and algorithms to make predictions in the areas of product demand, travel demand, financial planning, SAP and Oracle supply chain planning and cloud computing usage.
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Amazon Releases AWS Lake Formation to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lake Formation, a fully managed service that makes it much easier for customers to build, secure, and manage data lakes.
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Amazon Opens a New Region in Bahrain – AWS Middle East
Recently, Amazon announced the opening of an AWS region in the Middle East. This new region is the first for AWS in the Middle East and located in Bahrain.
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Pulumi Crosswalk: Infrastructure as Code for AWS
Pulumi Crosswalk is an open source library of components for supporting AWS infrastructure as code. Crosswalk offers best practices around provisioning and managing AWS resources, and aims to improve the developer experience when creating applications in AWS.
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Amazon Introduces Two New Features for Polly: Neural Text-to-Speech and Newscaster Style
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) technology in their Polly service in AWS, which turns text into lifelike speech. Furthermore, Amazon Polly now also offers a Newscaster speaking style.
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Scaling Graphite for Metrics Collection on AWS at Teads Engineering
Teads Engineering shared their story of scaling Graphite deployment from a single server, trying out various approaches like BigGraphite, and finally settling on the go-graphite stack and a custom HA architecture on AWS.
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Is Generally Available, Enhancing Coding Cloud Infrastructure
Recently, Amazin announced the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), an extensible open-source software development framework allowing developers to model and provision their cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages.
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Amazon Releases the Multi-Account Management Service AWS Control Tower to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower, a service that automates the process of setting up a new baseline multi-account AWS environment that is secure, and well-architected. With AWS Control Tower, cloud administrators can consistently set-up security and compliance for multi-account AWS environments.
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A Single Pane of Glass for Compliance and Security with AWS Security Hub GA
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Security Hub, a new security service that provides customers with a central place to manage security and compliance across their AWS environment.
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Timescale Cloud: Managed Time Series Database on Azure, Google Cloud and AWS
Timescale announced the availability of Timescale Cloud, a fully managed version of their time series database on Azure, GCP, and AWS. It provides time series analysis functions, the ability to scale up and down, visualization integration with tools like Grafana and Tableau, and data encryption.
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AWS Enhances Deep Learning AMI, AI Services SageMaker Ground Truth, and Rekognition
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced updates to their Deep Learning virtual machine image, as well as improvements to their AI services SageMaker Ground Truth and Rekognition.
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Amazon Personalize Is Now Generally Available, Bringing ML to Customers
After the first announcement of Amazon Personalize during AWS re:Invent last November, the service is now generally available for all AWS customers. With this service, developers can add custom machine learning models to their application, including ones for personalized product recommendations, search results and direct marketing, even if they don’t have much machine learning experience.
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Migrating from Self-Managed Kubernetes to AWS EKS Using Terraform at Blue Matador
Blue Matador migrated their self-managed Kubernetes cluster to AWS EKS to take advantage of a better security model, a managed control plane, and lesser costs, using Terraform to automate the setup.
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Amazon Managed Kafka Aims to Simplify Kafka Streaming Setup and Use
Introduced as a public preview at AWS re:invent 2018, Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) is now generally available. Amazon MSK aims to make it easy to build and run streaming applications based on Kafka.