RStudio on Amazon SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. Data scientists and developers can launch the familiar RStudio integrated development environment (IDE) in a single click to build, train, and deploy models on Amazon SageMaker. You can elastically dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even switch to programming using Python on Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks . All your work, including code, datasets, repositories, and other artifacts are synchronized between the two environments. You can bring your current RStudio license to Amazon SageMaker at no additional charge to quickly get started. Starting today, you can now automate the process of creating domains and adding user profiles for RStudio on SageMaker using AWS CloudFormation.

I seem to have started a rumour that might turn out to be profitable, Ed confides to his diary, last week,  after a shedload of booze at a semiconductor industry dinner, someone asked me when the crash was coming. Trying to be interestingly controversial, I replied that it might not happen for sometime if the …

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Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Global Datastore in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Global Datastore is a feature of ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable, and secure cross-Region replication. Using Global Datastore, you can write to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster in one Region and have the data available for read in two other cross-Region replica clusters, thereby enabling low-latency reads and disaster recovery across Regions.

Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces is offering APIs that allow you to customize your users Amazon WorkSpaces experience with your logo, login message, and help links on the WorkSpaces client login page. Using your own brand provides a familiar look and feel when users access your WorkSpaces. Adding your own help links makes it easy for users to access support resources within your organization.  

AWS Glue DataBrew customers are now able to clean and transform data stored in the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format, a widely used data format for storing Hive data. When creating a dataset in AWS Glue DataBrew, you can now use ORC files in addition to already supported Apache Parquet, Microsoft Excel, CSV, and JSON file formats.  

Starting today, all public AMIs will have the deprecation time set to two years after their creation date. This means that public AMIs that are more than two years old will by default be deprecated. Once an AMI is deprecated, it will no longer appear in DescribeImages API calls for users that aren’t the owner of the AMI. Deprecating an AMI only reduces the visibility of the AMI in untargeted searches, but continues to be usable and available to you. Users of a deprecated AMI can continue to launch instances and describe the deprecated AMI using its ID.

Back in 1999 the chatterati were full of expectations for the wireless internet. Alan Sugar, Chairman of Amstrad, would have none of it. “I’m not saying that it’s not a wonderful achievement to be able to send e-mail from the middle of a field,” Sugar told me , “it’s a great scientific achievement – but …

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Synspective, a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite data specialist, has raised US $100m in a Series B funding round, which was led by Sompo Japan Insurance, Nomura SPARX Investment and Pavilion Capital Pte. According to the Japan-based company, it makes it among the top ten largest startups in Japan, putting its total funding value at …

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Toshiba has started shipping a 150V N-channel power MOSFET that uses the latest generation U-MOSX-H process to significantly reduce losses. Additionally, voltage spikes between the drain and source during switching have been reduced, thereby improving EMI performance within switching power supplies. The device is suitable for a wide range of applications including switching power supplies …

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The government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2022 report  shows cyber attacks are becoming more frequent with organisations reporting more breaches over the last 12 months Although two in five businesses use a managed IT provider  only 13% review the security risks posed by their immediate suppliers. Almost one in three businesses (31%) and a quarter (26%) …

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