Starting today, we are adding service quotas for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). You will now see three new quotas in the EC2 section on the Service Quotas console page. The first quota is for the total number of AMIs within your AWS account, the second quota is for the total number of public AMIs within your AWS account, and the third quota is on the number of shares you can have for each AMI. These quotas are added by default for all AWS accounts and do not require any action from you. Each quota is per AWS account per AWS Region.

AWS Transfer Family now supports post-upload processing of partially uploaded files using managed workflows, offering customers even more control in defining and executing file-processing steps for both complete and incomplete file uploads.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge) of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Canada (Central) regions. Additionally, High Memory instances with 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in Canada (Central) region and High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

AWS Glue includes crawler s based on Amazon S3 Event Notifications , a capability that make discovering datasets simpler by scanning only data based on events in Amazon S3. The Glue crawler extracts the data schema and automatically populates the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. By crawling datasets based on S3 events, this reduces the time to insight by making newly ingested data quickly available for analysis with your favorite analytics and machine learning tools.

The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces general availability of Open ID Connect (OIDC) support in SAM CLI Pipelines. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. SAM Pipelines make it easier to create continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for serverless applications with Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines, and AWS CodePipeline. SAM Pipelines comes pre-packaged with a set of default pipeline templates for all supported systems that showcase AWS best practices for secure, multi-account, and multi-region deployments.

Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an existing Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora database and an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up connection between your RDS or Aurora database and an EC2 instance. Amazon RDS automatically sets up your related network settings to enable a secure connection between the EC2 instance and the RDS database.

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions.

We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Hindi and Dutch. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base.

39 years ago a Ferrari pulled out of the car park of a Los Gatos personal computer company, spun out of control, ploughed through 20 foot of guard rail and plunged into a ravine. The car’s owner, the company president, was instantly killed. A few hours beforehand, his company had IPO’d making his stock worth …

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In its latest  World Economic Outlook, the IMF now projects global GDP to grow 3.2% this year and 2.7% in 2023 – the latter marking a 0.2 percentage point downgrade from the July forecast. With more than a third of the global economy expected to contract this year or next, “2023 will feel like a recession” …

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