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Amazon Announces Elastic File System (EFS) Support for AWS Lambda
Recently Amazon announced that AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). With the support for EFS, they can share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS CodeArtifact
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS CodeArtifact, a fully managed artifact repository service. With this service developers and organizations can securely store and share the software packages used in their development, build, and deployment processes.
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Amazon Releases AWS Amplify iOS and Android into General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android, which are both part of the open-source Amplify Framework. Amplify iOS and Amplify Android include libraries and tools, allowing mobile developers to build scalable and secure cloud-powered applications.
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AWS Releases its Machine Learning Powered Enterprise Search Service Kendra into General Availability
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of its enterprise search service Kendra on AWS. With the GA release of Amazon Kendra, the public cloud provider added a few new specialized features and improved service accuracy.
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Amazon Announces the General Availability of EC2 M6g Instances Powered by AWS Graviton2
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of their 6th generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) General Purpose instance: the M6g – with the ‘g’ standing for “Graviton2”, a next-generation Arm-based chip. The public cloud vendor and their acquired company Annapurna Labs designed this chip, which utilizes 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores.
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Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry Now Generally Available on AWS
Recently Amazon announced the general availability of the Schema Registry capability in the Amazon EventBridge service. With Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry, developers can store the event structure - or schema - in a shared central location and map those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript, meaning that they can use events as objects in their code.
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Amazon Introduces the New Streaming ETL Feature on AWS Glue
Recently, Amazon announced AWS Glue now supports streaming ETL. With this new feature, customers can easily set up continuous ingestion pipelines that prepare streaming data on the fly and make it available for analysis in seconds.
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Q&A with Amazon's VP Kurt Kufeld Regarding Amazon AppFlow
InfoQ caught up with Kurt Kufield, VP AWS Platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), regarding Amazon AppFlow, a bidirectional integration service between the AWS platform and a variety of SaaS platforms.
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Amazon Updates AWS Snowball Edge with Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager
AWS Snowball is a part of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Recently Amazon announced a few updates for Snowball Edge device option. It now has a graphical user interface with AWS OpsHub, 25% faster data transfer performance, and support for local Identity and Access Management (IAM), and AWS System Manager.
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Containers Running on ECS and AWS Fargate Can Now Use Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable, elastic, fully-managed shared file system. Recently, Amazon announced that Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks running on both Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and AWS Fargate are now able to use EFS.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of AWS Deepcomposer
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Deepcomposer, a service in AWS, which provides developers with a creative way to learn Machine Learning (ML). Deepcomposer is a machine learning-enabled keyboard for developers, and is available for purchase.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of New Security Service: Amazon Detective
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Detective. This new security service in AWS allows customers to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.
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Amazon Introduces Bottlerocket, a Linux-Based OS for Container Hosting
Recently, Amazon announced a new Linux-based open-source operating system (OS) called Bottlerocket, which is purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket is currently in public preview as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for customers to try out.
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Amazon Updates Transcribe with Automatic Redaction of Personally Identifiable Information Feature
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service, allowing customers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their applications. Recently, the public cloud provider made a significant update to the service with an automatic redaction of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) feature.
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Amazon Elastic File System New Features: IAM Authorization and Access Points
Amazon’s Elastic File System (EFS) Service (EFS) offers a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. Recently Amazon announced updates for this service by adding two new features, namely Identity and Access Management (IAM) authorization for Network File System (NFS) and EFS Access Points.