4/21/2023, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/24/2023, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Personalize now supports Kafka Sink connector to ingest real-time data with ease
Amazon Personalize has launched a new open source Amazon Personalize Kafka Sink connector that makes it easy to stream data in real-time for use in Amazon Personalize. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Amazon Personalize uses data provided by customers to train custom models on their behalf. With this launch, customers can readily ingest their data from Apache Kafka clusters and call the Amazon Personalize-specific APIs to enable real-time data steaming, without the need for custom code. This makes it faster and easier to bring real-time data to Amazon Personalize for those using Apache Kafka.
AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Querétaro, Mexico
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the KIO Networks data center in Querétaro, Mexico. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is now available in 7 additional regions
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is now available in 7 new AWS regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo). Customers in these regions can now use Refactor Spaces as the starting point to accelerate application refactoring.
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 is now available in South America (São Paulo) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in South America (São Paulo) Region. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. Together with AWS Organizations, AWS Backup enables you to centrally deploy policies to configure, manage, and govern your data protection activity.
AWS WAF Captcha launches JavaScript API support
AWS Web Application Firewall customers can now use the AWS WAF Captcha JavaScript API for enhanced control over the Captcha workflows. AWS WAF Captcha helps block unwanted bot traffic by requiring users to successfully solve visual or audio problems before their web requests are allowed. Until today, AWS WAF Captcha redirected customers to a different page for solving the Captcha problem. With this release, developers can improve the Captcha customer experience by embedding Captcha problems in their existing webpages, including Single Page applications (SPAs).
Apache Kafka support now available in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Apache Kafka receiver and exporter in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector to collect metrics and traces from Kafka and send metrics and traces to Kafka. The release includes support for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK).
AWS Backup is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the with a few simple clicks.
Amazon Personalize enables popularity tuning for similar item recommendations
Today, Amazon Personalize announces the launch of popularity tuning for its Similar-Items recipe (aws-similar-items). Similar-Items generates recommendations that are similar to the item that a user selects, helping users discover new items in a customer’s catalog based on the behavior of all users and item metadata.
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