AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020

By Dustin Ward

AWS IQ is waiving both the 3% buyer fee and 15% expert fee from April 16, 2020 to June 30, 2020. AWS IQ is waiving these fees to support you in setting up and scaling remote work initiatives, and to support the highly skilled consultants who provide their services. from Recent Announcements: https://ift.tt/351RYxI The post…

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity

By Dustin Ward

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity (OAI). By using OAI, you can restrict your viewers from accessing content from your Amazon S3 buckets directly by requiring them to retrieve the content through Amazon CloudFront’s distributed edge network in China. To learn more about OAI with Amazon CloudFront in China, read CloudFront’s…

Scaling your AI-powered Battlesnake with distributed reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Battlesnake is an AI competition in which you build AI-powered snakes. Battlesnake’s rules are similar to the traditional snakes game. Your goal is to be the last surviving snake when competing against other snakes. Developers of all levels build snakes using techniques ranging from unique heuristic-based strategies to state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. You…

AWS DataSync enhances monitoring capabilities with file-level logging

By Dustin Ward

When using AWS DataSync, you can now enable detailed logging for files and objects copied between your NFS servers, SMB servers, Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems. Logging of individual files enables you to identify what was transferred at a given time, as…

Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in all commercial AWS Regions

By Dustin Ward

Following the November 26, 2019 announcement of the availability of PostgreSQL 11 support with Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in six AWS Regions, we have expanded availability to all commercial AWS Regions that support Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns…