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Amazon EKS Blueprints Streamline Bootstrapping Kubernetes Clusters
AWS has released EKS Blueprints, a collection of infrastructure as code (IaC) modules to simplify configuring and deploying EKS clusters. EKS Blueprints are currently implemented in both HashiCorp Terraform and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The blueprints have support for a number of open-source add-ons including Prometheus, Nginx, and Argo CD.
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AWS Increases the Availability and Reliability of Amazon EventBridge with Global Endpoints
Recently, AWS introduced a new capability called global endpoints for its serverless event bus service Amazon EventBridge to improve availability and reliability.
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Austrian DPA Ruling against Google Analytics Paves the Way to EU-based Cloud Services
In a recent ruling, the Austrian data regulator declared the use of Google Analytics unlawful based on EU GDPR regulation. While the ruling is very specifically argued and worded, its implications go well beyond this particular case.
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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Now GA: Alerting, PromQL Support, and More
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), a Prometheus-compatible monitoring service for container infrastructure and application metrics for containers.
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Amazon QuickSight Q: Answers to Business Intelligence Questions
Amazon recently announced the general availability of QuickSight Q, a natural language query tool for the enterprise edition of the managed business intelligence service QuickSight.
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AWS Releases Amazon EKS Anywhere into General Availability
Amazon EKS Anywhere is an open-source deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that allows customers to create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, with optional support offered by AWS. Recently, AWS announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EKS Anywhere.
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Amazon Announces Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 4 Winners
Amazon recently announced the winners of the 4th Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge, a competition for university students to develop conversational AI. A team from Czech Technical University (CTU) won first prize, while teams from Stanford University and University of Buffalo took second and third.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes are a key Elastic Compute (EC2) component with several HDD and SSD volumes, each designed for a particular use case. And recently, AWS announced the general availability of its cloud-based storage area network (SAN) offering, Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes – providing 4x higher throughput, IOPS, and capacity than io2 volumes.
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Ferrari Chooses AWS Machine Learning for Racing and Road Operations
Ferrari will use AWS machine learning, analytics, and compute capabilities across the organization, including the Formula One team Scuderia Ferrari.
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AWS Announces the General Availability of CloudFront Functions
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of CloudFront Functions, a new edge computing capability. With this new CloudFront feature, customers can run JavaScript functions across the Cloud Front edge locations worldwide.
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Amazon Forks Elasticsearch Rebranding It as OpenSearch
Amazon recently announced the release of OpenSearch, a fork derived from versions 7.10.2 of ElasticSearch and Kibana. OpenSearch is licensed under the Apache License, V2 (ALv2). Elastic recently made adjustments to their Elastic License to simplify the usage of their code for non-commercial purposes.
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Amazon Redshift Cross-Database Queries and Data Sharing Are Now GA
Users of Amazon Redshift can now run cross-database queries and share data across Redshift clusters as AWS released these enhancements to general availability.
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AWS Announces Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
Recently AWS announced the new Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone storage classes, which deliver the same features and benefits as the existing Amazon EFS storage classes yet reduce storage costs by 47%. With One Zone storage classes, customers can redundantly store data within a single Availability Zone (AZ).
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AWS Introduces Batch Support for AWS Fargate
During the first week of the annual re:invent, AWS introduced the ability to specify AWS Fargate as a computing resource for AWS Batch jobs. With the AWS Batch support for AWS Fargate, customers will have a way to run jobs on serverless compute resources, fully-managed from job submission to completion.
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AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ
AWS announced Amazon MQ will now support RabbitMQ, a popular open-source message broker. With the support for RabbitMQ, customers can migrate their existing RabbitMQ message brokers to AWS without rewriting code.