AWS Serverless Application Model is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China (Beijing) Region

AWS SAM extends AWS CloudFormation to provide a simplified way of defining the Amazon API Gateway APIs, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon DynamoDB tables needed by your serverless application. Now, you can use new resource types to write CloudFormation templates that are optimized for defining serverless applications with only a few lines of text.  Source: Read more about AWS Serverless Application Model is Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China (Beijing) Region[…]

Announcing Network Performance Improvements for Amazon EC2 Instances

Amazon EC2 customers can now utilize up to five times higher bandwidth when sending or receiving network traffic between an instance and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) within the same region. They can also utilize higher bandwidth for traffic between instances in different Availability Zones.   Source: Amazon Web Services News Announcing Network Performance Improvements Read more about Announcing Network Performance Improvements for Amazon EC2 Instances[…]

Amazon Connect Adds Federated Single Sign-On Using SAML 2.0 Available in Preview

Amazon Connect customers can now use federated single sign-on (SSO) using SAML 2.0 to access Amazon Connect. This allows contact center agents and managers to access Amazon Connect with their existing corporate credentials. As an administrator, you can enforce password policies, and use your existing SAML 2.0 user directory to control access to Amazon Connect, Read more about Amazon Connect Adds Federated Single Sign-On Using SAML 2.0 Available in Preview[…]

AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with TensorFlow 1.5.0 and new Model Serving Capabilities

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are a quick and easy way to get started with machine learning. The AMIs with Source Code now come with TensorFlow 1.5.0-rc1 which supports NVidia CUDA 9 and cuDNN 7 drivers that take advantage of the V100 Volta GPUs powering the EC2 P3 instances. The Conda-based Deep Learning AMIs now Read more about AWS Deep Learning AMIs now come with TensorFlow 1.5.0 and new Model Serving Capabilities[…]

Amazon SageMaker Achieves PCI DSS Compliance

You can now use Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy models for applications in the AWS Cloud that are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. PCI DSS is a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standards Council and applies to all entities that store, process or Read more about Amazon SageMaker Achieves PCI DSS Compliance[…]