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Amazon Introduces Saving Plans for AWS Compute Services
Amazon introduces a new flexible pricing model for customers called Savings Plans, which can lead up to 72% of cost savings on Amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate in exchange for committing to a consistent amount of compute usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a one to three-year term.
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Alexa Research Paper Shows Genetic Algorithms Offer Best Solution for Neural Network Optimization
Amazon's Alexa Science researchers published a paper providing a theoretical basis for neural network optimization. While showing that it is computationally intractable to find a perfect solution, the paper does provide a formulation, the Approximate Architecture Search Problem (a-ASP), that can be solved with genetic algorithms.
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Amazon Releases the Anomaly Detection Feature for CloudWatch to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the Anomaly Detection feature in Amazon CloudWatch, a monitoring and management service providing customers data and insights from AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.
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Amazon Announces Generally Availability of Windows Containers on EKS
Last week Amazon announced that support of Windows containers on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now generally available. As such, this allows their users to run Windows and Linux containers side by side in the same EKS environment, thus providing a consistent method of provisioning, monitoring, and logging, no matter what type of container they use to host their applications.
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Amazon Updates S3 Service with Same-Region Replication
Recently, Amazon introduced a new option to its cloud storage service S3 - Same Region Replication (SRR). With this new option in S3, customers can now create a replica of their uploaded data in the same region yet in a different S3 bucket.
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Amazon Announces General Availability of Quantum Ledger Database
On September 10th, Amazon announced the general availability of Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a ledger database based on blockchain technology. As such, QLDB provides a fully managed ledger which can contain multiple tables, implementing an immutable transaction journal, which is cryptographically verifiable, and owned by a centralized trusted authority.
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Amazon Releases Container Monitoring for Amazon ECS, EKS, and Kubernetes via CloudWatch
Recently, Amazon announced that customers can now monitor, isolate, and diagnose their containerized applications and microservices environments using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights. Cloud Insights is a part of Amazon CloudWatch, a fully-managed monitoring and observability service in AWS targeted for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
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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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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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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 Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Amazon EventBridge – Event-Driven AWS Integration for SaaS Applications Now Generally Available
At the recent AWS Summit Event in New York, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon EventBridge, a serverless event bus that allows AWS, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and custom applications to communicate with each other using events.