Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Frankfurt). Additionally, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (Frankfurt). M6a and C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC (code named Milan) processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz. M6a instances deliver up to 35% better price performance compared to M5a instances, while C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5a instances. Both M6a and C6a instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. M6a and C6a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. M6a instances are SAP-Certified and a good fit for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications, web servers, micro-services, multi-player gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments. C6a instances are well suited for compute-intensive applications like batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region.

Starting today, Amazon Chime SDK messaging is generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region.

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization, from a single visual interface. SageMaker Data Wrangler runs on ml.m5.4xlarge by default. SageMaker Data Wrangler includes built-in data transforms and analyses written in PySpark so you can process large data sets (up to hundreds of gigabytes (GB) of data) efficiently on the default instance. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn are available in additional regions and bare metal sizes. X2idn instances are now available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2iedn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2idn and X2iedn are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.5 GHz and deliver up to 50% higher compute price performance than comparable X1 instances. X2idn and X2iedn instances both include up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage and up to 100 Gbps of networking bandwidth. X2idn offers up to 2 TiB of memory and X2iedn offers up to 4 TiB of memory. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and X2iedn has a 32:1 ratio, making these instances a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, big data processing engines, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads. X2idn and X2iedn instances are SAP-Certified.

Amazon Connect now displays scheduling metrics within the schedule management user experience to help contact center managers efficiently manage their agent’s schedules. Managers can quickly see and take action on key metrics that drive business outcomes, such as the difference between forecasted agent capacity needed and the number of agents scheduled for each 15 or 30 minute time block. These metrics are displayed adjacent to agent schedules allowing managers to make precision adjustments without the need to repeatedly switch between the scheduling and metrics screens, helping them optimize business outcomes while ensuring a balanced agent workload.

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Omni-channel distributor, RS Components, has become a member of  Make UK, the UK’s manufacturing organisation to promote innovation in and the development of skills for the British manufacturing industry. RS Components’ managing director, UK and Ireland, Emma Bofield, said: “Our membership will enable us to contribute to [the Make UK] community, using our unique position …

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