Amazon QuickSight: 2020 in review

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon QuickSight: 2020 in review As 2020 draws to a close, we’ve put together this post to walk you through all that’s changed in Amazon QuickSight this year. For your reading convenience, this post is broken up into the following sections: Embedded Analytics at scale Faster insights with Q & ML Business…

Announcing Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnnouncing Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Mac instances for macOS are generally available. Built on Apple Mac mini computers, EC2 Mac instances enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits…

Private package installation in Amazon SageMaker running in internet-free mode

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedPrivate package installation in Amazon SageMaker running in internet-free mode Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks and Amazon SageMaker notebook instances are internet-enabled by default. However, many regulated industries, such as financial industries, healthcare, telecommunications, and others, require that network traffic traverses their own Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to restrict and control…

New in Amazon QuickSight – session capacity pricing for large scale deployments, embedding without user provisioning, and developer portal for embedded analytics

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew in Amazon QuickSight – session capacity pricing for large scale deployments, embedding without user provisioning, and developer portal for embedded analytics Amazon QuickSight Enterprise edition now offers a new, session capacity-based pricing model starting at $250/month, with annual commitment options that provide scalable pricing for embedded analytics and BI rollouts to…