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- March 27, 2026 - Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports data protection, OpenSearch PPL and OpenSearch SQL for the Infrequent Access ingestion class
- March 27, 2026 - Amazon GameLift - Amazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance families
- March 27, 2026 - Amazon Timestream - Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Advanced Metrics
- March 27, 2026 - AWS HealthImaging - AWS HealthImaging announces study-level fine-grained access control
- March 27, 2026 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda supports up to 32 GB of memory and 16 vCPUs for Lambda Managed Instances
- March 27, 2026 - AWS Management Console - AWS Management Console now supports settings to control service and Region visibility
- March 26, 2026 - Amazon Aurora DSQL - Aurora DSQL launches connector that simplifies building Ruby applications
- March 26, 2026 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regions
- March 26, 2026 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
- March 26, 2026 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region
- March 26, 2026 - Amazon ECS - Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports FIPS-certified workloads on Graviton and GPU accelerated instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- March 26, 2026 - Amazon RDS - The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatic query caching with Valkey
- March 26, 2026 - Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker Studio launches support for Kiro and Cursor IDEs as remote IDEs
- March 26, 2026 - AWS AppConfig - AWS AppConfig adds enhanced targeting during feature flag rollout
- March 26, 2026 - AWS Lambda - AWS Lambda increases the file descriptor limit to 4,096 for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances
- March 26, 2026 - AWS Parallel Computing Service - AWS Parallel Computing Service supports slurmdbd and cgroups settings
- March 26, 2026 - AWS Step Functions - AWS Step Functions adds 28 new service integrations, including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- March 26, 2026 - AWS Storage Gateway - AWS Storage Gateway Terraform modules now support Amazon Linux 2023
- March 26, 2026 - Research and Engineering Studio - Research and Engineering Studio on AWS 2026.03 is now available
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon Aurora - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon Aurora - Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports creating and connecting to a database in seconds
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds support for Chrome policies and custom root CA
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports managed session storage for persistent agent filesystem state (preview)
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon DocumentDB - AWS Backup expands support for Amazon DocumentDB to 12 Regions
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon EC2 - Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in additional AWS regions
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon Route 53 - Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports granular IAM permissions for resource and VPC associations
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio launches support for remote connectionfrom Cursor IDE
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless reinforcement fine-tuning for12 additional models
- March 25, 2026 - Amazon SageMaker - Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports continuous provisioning forSlurm-orchestrated clusters
- March 25, 2026 - AWS Batch - AWS Batch now provides AMI status and supports AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events
- March 25, 2026 - AWS Batch - AWS Batch now supports quota management and preemption for SageMaker Training jobs
- March 25, 2026 - AWS ParallelCluster - AWS ParallelCluster 3.15 with support for P6-B300 and Slurm 25.11
- March 25, 2026 - AWS Serverless - Accelerate AI-assisted development with Agent Plugin for AWS Serverless
- March 25, 2026 - AWS Transfer Family - AWS Transfer Family AS2 now supports receipts of MDNs asynchronously
- March 24, 2026 - AWS HealthOmics - AWS HealthOmics introduces batch run operations
- Amazon Aurora - Aurora DSQL IAM connector for PHP
- Route53 Resolver DNS query logs - Route53 Resolver DNS query logs launching in AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West)
- FreeRTOS - FreeRTOS LTS202601
- GuardDuty Console - GuardDuty Console launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty EC2 ICE Finding - GuardDuty EC2 ICE Finding launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty Findings in CloudFormation - GuardDuty Findings in CloudFormation launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty for CloudTrail - GuardDuty for CloudTrail launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty for DNS Query Logs - GuardDuty for DNS Query Logs launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty for EKS Audit Logs - GuardDuty for EKS Audit Logs launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty for Extended Threat Detection (XTD) - GuardDuty for Extended Threat Detection (XTD) launching in US ISO West, US ISOB East (Ohio), US ISOF EAST, US ISOF SOUTH
- GuardDuty for S3 - GuardDuty for S3 launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty for VPC FlowLogs - GuardDuty for VPC FlowLogs launching in US ISO West
- GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 - GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 launching in US ISO West
- Lifecycle Management - Lifecycle Management launching in AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West), US ISO East, US ISO West, US ISOB East (Ohio), US ISOF EAST, US ISOF SOUTH
- Malware Protection for EC2 - Malware Protection for EC2 launching in US ISO West
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - AgentCore CLI
- Amazon GuardDuty - Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring launching in US ISO East
- Amazon GuardDuty - Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring launching in US ISO West
- Aurora Global Database support - Aurora Global Database support launching in EU ISOE West, US ISOB East (Ohio)
- AWS Marketplace - Discovery API Public Launch
- AWS Organizations - Managing GuardDuty accounts with AWS Organizations launching in US ISO West
- ALB mTLS - ALB mTLS launching in US ISO East, US ISO West, US ISOB East (Ohio)
- Amazon QuickSight - Governance - VPC-EndPoints/Privatelink
- AWS CodeCommit - Git LFS
- EC2 Capacity Reservations - CPG-ODCR Enhancement Expansion in China and US ISO East, US ISO West, US ISOB East (Ohio)
- Amazon CloudWatch - Synthetics - BYOL, Auto-retry, Safe Upgrade feature parity - GovCloud
- Amazon CloudWatch - Synthetics - BYOL, Auto-retry, Safe Upgrade feature parity - US ISO East, US ISO West, and US ISOB East (Ohio) regions
- Amazon CloudWatch - Synthetics - BYOL, Auto-retry, Safe Upgrade feature parity - China
- Amazon Timestream - InfluxDB 3 - N-Node Support
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - NoNAT IGW Ingress Routing IPv6 [GA]
- AWS CloudFormation - Support for nested stacks, Macros and Transforms in service-managed StackSets
- AWS Outposts - Enable Outposts networking metrics in GovCloud
- CloudWatch Application Signals - CloudWatch Application Signals launching in Asia Pacific (Taipei)
- CloudWatch Application Signals - CloudWatch Application Signals launching in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
- EC2 Capacity Reservations - CPG-ODCR Enhancement Expansion in China and US ISO East, US ISO West, and US ISOB East (Ohio) regions
- Network Migration - ATX Migrations: expose VMware network migration agent via APIs for easy integration into partner workflows
- Amazon CloudWatch - Synthetics - BYOL, Auto-retry, Safe Upgrade feature parity - GovCloud
- Amazon DataZone Data Lineage - Lineage Graph View across time stamps
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - EC2 Local Instance Storage CSI Driver
- Amazon Timestream - Timestream for INfluxDb Extended Metrics Support
- AWS Marketplace Catalog API - US East (N. Virginia) dualstack endpoint SDK support
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - AgentCore Browser - Persistent Profiles (Cookie Reuse)
- Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect launches business filters for predictive insights
- Amazon QuickSight - VPC-EndPoints/Privatelink
- Amazon Timestream - InfluxDB 3 - N-Node Support
- Amazon Verified Permissions - Upgrade AVP to support latest version of Cedar
- AWS CloudFormation - Support for nested stacks, Macros and Transforms in service-managed StackSets
- AWS Lake Formation - Permissions support for S3 direct access for LF Managed tables
- AWS Lake Formation - Durable Glue Catalog events in EventBridge
- AWS Partner Central - MAP Partner Funding Disbursement Automation
- AWS Partner Central - MAP Revenue Acceleration: ACE and MPE Auto Creation/Qualification
- Capacity Reservation Groups - Capacity Reservation Group Console Experience
- VMImportExport - VMIE UEFI Support
- March 26, 2026 - Customize your AWS Management Console experience with visual settings including account color, region and service visibility
- March 25, 2026 - Announcing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL serverless database creation in seconds
- March 23, 2026 - AWS Weekly Roundup: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on Amazon Bedrock, Nova Forge SDK, Amazon Corretto 26, and more (March 23, 2026)
- March 19, 2026 - 20 years in the AWS Cloud - how time flies!
- March 18, 2026 - Our First 2026 AWS Heroes Cohort Is Here!
- March 16, 2026 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 turns 20, Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver general availability, and more (March 16, 2026)
- February 26, 2026 - AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions
- February 24, 2026 - Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference
- February 23, 2026 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026)
- February 09, 2026 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)
- February 04, 2026 - Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available
- February 03, 2026 - AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use
- February 02, 2026 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock agent workflows, Amazon SageMaker private connectivity, and more (February 2, 2026)
- January 20, 2026 - Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
- January 20, 2026 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026)
- December 01, 2025 - AWS Transform for mainframe introduces Reimagine capabilities and automated testing functionality
- December 01, 2025 - AWS Transform announces full-stack Windows modernization capabilities
- December 01, 2025 - Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization
- December 01, 2025 - Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025
- December 01, 2025 - Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
- December 01, 2025 - AWS Clean Rooms launches privacy-enhancing synthetic dataset generation for ML model training
- December 01, 2025 - AWS Partner Central now available in AWS Management Console
- December 01, 2025 - Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
- December 01, 2025 - Simplify IAM policy creation with IAM Policy Autopilot, a new open source MCP server for builders
- December 01, 2025 - Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management
- March 19, 2026 - CVE-2026-4428: Issues with AWS-LC - CRL Distribution Point Scope Check Logic Error
- March 17, 2026 - Arbitrary code execution via crafted project files in Kiro IDE
- March 16, 2026 - CVE-2026-4270 - AWS API MCP File Access Restriction Bypass
- March 16, 2026 - CVE-2026-4269 - Improper S3 ownership verification in Bedrock AgentCore Starter Toolkit
- March 03, 2026 - MariaDB Server Audit Plugin Comment Handling Bypass
- March 02, 2026 - Issue with AWS-LC: an open-source, general-purpose cryptographic library (CVE-2026-3336, CVE-2026-3337, CVE-2026-3338)
- November 07, 2025 - CVE-2025-12829 - Integer Overflow issue in Amazon Ion-C
- November 06, 2025 - CVE-2025-12815 - RES web portal may display preview of Virtual Desktops that the user shouldn't have access to
- November 05, 2025 - Improper authentication token handling in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux
- November 05, 2025 - CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc container issues
- November 21, 2025 - Call audio termination issue in AWS Wickr desktop clients
- November 10, 2025 - Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS JDBC Wrapper, AWS Go Wrapper, AWS NodeJS Wrapper, AWS Python Wrapper, AWS PGSQL ODBC driver
- November 07, 2025 - CVE-2025-12829 - Integer Overflow issue in Amazon Ion-C
- November 06, 2025 - CVE-2025-12815 - RES web portal may display preview of Virtual Desktops that the user shouldn't have access to
- November 05, 2025 - Improper authentication token handling in the Amazon WorkSpaces client for Linux
- November 05, 2025 - CVE-2025-31133, CVE-2025-52565, CVE-2025-52881 - runc container issues
- November 10, 2025 - Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS JDBC Wrapper, AWS Go Wrapper, AWS NodeJS Wrapper, AWS Python Wrapper, AWS PGSQL ODBC driver
- August 14, 2025 - CVE-2025-9039 - Issue with Amazon ECS agent introspection server
- August 13, 2025 - CVE-2025-8904 - Issue with Amazon EMR Secret Agent component
- August 12, 2025 - [Redirected] Memory Dump Issue in AWS CodeBuild
- August 11, 2025 - Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84)
- August 09, 2025 - Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84)
- July 24, 2025 - Security Update for Amazon Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code (Version #1.84)
- July 23, 2025 - AWS-2025-014
- July 16, 2025 - CVE-2025-6031 - Insecure device pairing in end-of-life Amazon Cloud Cam
- June 04, 2025 - CVE-2025-5688 - Out of Bounds Write in FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP
- May 27, 2025 - CVE-2025-5279 - Issue with Amazon Redshift Python Connector and the BrowserAzureOAuth2CredentialsProvider plugin
- March 31, 2025 - Issue with AWS SAM CLI (CVE-2025-3047, CVE-2025-3048)
- March 27, 2025 - Issue with tough, versions prior to 0.20.0 (Multiple CVEs)
- March 24, 2025 - Issues with Kubernetes ingress-nginx controller (Multiple CVEs)
- March 21, 2025 - Issue with the AWS CDK CLI and custom credential plugins (CVE-2025-2598)
- March 04, 2025 - Issue with Temporary elevated access management (TEAM) - CVE-2025-1969
- January 23, 2025 - Issue with AWS Sign-in IAM User Login Flow =E2=80=93 Possible Username Enumeration (CVE-2025-0693)
- January 15, 2025 - Issue with Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon AppStream 2.0, and Amazon DCV - (CVE-2025-0500 and CVE-2025-0501)
- December 24, 2024 - Issue with RedShift JDBC Driver, Python Connector and ODBC Driver - (CVE-2024-12744, CVE-2024-12745, CVE-2024-12746)
- December 11, 2024 - Issue with DynamoDB local - CVE-2022-1471
- November 09, 2024 - Issue with data.all (Multiple CVEs)
- March 26, 2026 - Architecting for agentic AI development on AWS
- March 18, 2026 - AI-powered event response for Amazon EKS
- February 26, 2026 - Digital Transformation at Santander: How Platform Engineering is Revolutionizing Cloud Infrastructure
- February 25, 2026 - 6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learned
- February 05, 2026 - How Convera built fine-grained API authorization with Amazon Verified Permissions
- February 04, 2026 - Mastering millisecond latency and millions of events: The event-driven architecture behind the Amazon Key Suite
- November 26, 2025 - Secure Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with AWS Network Firewall
- November 14, 2025 - Know before you go - AWS re:Invent 2025 guide to Well-Architected and Cloud Optimization sessions
- August 14, 2025 - How Karrot built a feature platform on AWS, Part 1: Motivation and feature serving
- August 14, 2025 - How Karrot built a feature platform on AWS, Part 2: Feature ingestion
- August 14, 2025 - Deploy LLMs on Amazon EKS using vLLM Deep Learning Containers
- August 01, 2025 - Maximizing Business Value Through Strategic Cloud Optimization
- July 18, 2025 - Implement monitoring for Amazon EKS with managed services
- July 14, 2025 - How Scale to Win uses AWS WAF to block DDoS events
- June 02, 2025 - Analyze media content using AWS AI services
- May 19, 2025 - How Smartsheet boosts developer productivity with Amazon Bedrock and Roo Code
- May 15, 2025 - Revolutionizing agricultural knowledge management using a multi-modal LLM: A reference architecture
- May 12, 2025 - Implement event-driven invoice processing for resilient financial monitoring at scale
- April 18, 2025 - How Smartsheet reduced latency and optimized costs in their serverless architecture
- April 17, 2025 - Announcing the AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
- April 14, 2025 - Build and operate an effective architecture review board
- March 20, 2025 - Master architecture decision records (ADRs): Best practices for effective decision-making
- March 20, 2025 - Pilot light with reserved capacity: How to optimize DR cost using On-Demand Capacity Reservations
- February 17, 2025 - Realizing twelve-factors with the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- February 05, 2025 - Use generative AI on AWS for efficient clinical document analysis
- January 13, 2025 - TVS Supply Chain Solutions built a file transfer platform using AWS Transfer Family for AS2 for B2B collaboration
- December 06, 2024 - Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming Gmb
- December 02, 2024 - Let's Architect! Serverless developer experience in AWS
- October 16, 2024 - Automating multi-AZ high availability for WebLogic administration server with DNS: Part 2
- October 11, 2024 - How CyberArk is streamlining serverless governance by codifying architectural blueprints
- October 04, 2024 - How Banfico built an Open Banking and Payment Services Directive (PSD2) compliance solution on AWS
- September 23, 2024 - AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
- September 25, 2024 - Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
- September 25, 2024 - Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models
- September 23, 2024 - Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- September 18, 2024 - Hybrid Cloud Journey using Amazon Outposts and AWS Local Zones
- August 07, 2024 - Network perimeter security protections for generative AI
- August 06, 2024 - Spring 2024 SOC 2 report now available in Japanese, Korean, and Spanish
- August 06, 2024 - Hardening the RAG chatbot architecture powered by Amazon Bedrock: Blueprint for secure design and anti-pattern mitigation
- August 05, 2024 - SaaS authentication: Identity management with Amazon Cognito user pools
- August 01, 2024 - Introducing the Maori Data Lens for the Well-Architected Framework
- July 31, 2024 - Let's Architect! Designing Well-Architected systems
- July 19, 2024 - Simplify and automate bill processing with Amazon Bedrock
- March 26, 2026 - Preparing for agentic AI: A financial services approach
- March 23, 2026 - IAM policy types: How and when to use them
- March 18, 2026 - Amazon threat intelligence teams identify Interlock ransomware campaign targeting enterprise firewalls
- March 02, 2026 - Understanding IAM for Managed AWS MCP Servers
- February 26, 2026 - AWS successfully completed its first surveillance audit for ISO 42001:2023 with no findings
- February 26, 2026 - Inside AWS Security Agent: A multi-agent architecture for automated penetration testing
- January 23, 2026 - Updated PCI PIN compliance package for AWS Payment Cryptography now available
- January 23, 2026 - AWS achieves 2025 C5 Type 2 attestation report with 183 services in scope
- January 23, 2026 - AWS renews the GSMA SAS-SM certification for two AWS Regions and expands to cover four new Regions
- January 23, 2026 - Exploring common centralized and decentralized approaches to secrets management
- January 20, 2026 - Fall 2025 SOC 1, 2, and 3 reports are now available with 185 services in scope
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- MongoDB Atlas Platform Tools - Compass is a free interactive tool for querying, optimizing, and analyzing your MongoDB data. Get key insights, drag and drop to build pipelines and more. - Learn More About MongoDB Atlas Platform Tools
- MongoDB Integrations - discover integrations and solutions from MongoDB partners to help you build and run modern applications. - Learn More MongoDB Integrations
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- Mainframe Modernization - Modernize key applications from the mainframe to a modern data platform without impacting your core systems. - Learn More About Mainframe Modernizations
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AWS
- November 26, 2025 - AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports partitioned CRLs
- November 26, 2025 - How to use the Secrets Store CSI Driver provider Amazon EKS add-on with Secrets Manager
- November 25, 2025 - AWS Secrets Manager launches Managed External Secrets for Third-Party Credentials
- November 25, 2025 - Introducing guidelines for network scanning
- August 07, 2024 - Tenant portability: Move tenants across tiers in a SaaS application
- August 05, 2024 - How AWS tracks the cloud's biggest security threats and helps shut them down
- August 02, 2024 - OSPAR 2024 report now available with 163 services in scope
- August 01, 2024 - Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
- August 01, 2024 - AWS completes the first GDV joint audit with participant insurers in Germany
- July 30, 2024 - How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake
- July 29, 2024 - AWS revalidates its AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities
- July 29, 2024 - Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake - Part 2
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs (AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 15, 2024 - Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake
- July 15, 2024 - AWS renews TISAX certification (Information with Very High Protection Needs(AL3)) across 19 regions
- July 10, 2024 - AWS achieves third-party attestation of conformance with the SecureSoftware Development Framework (SSDF)
- July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 2
- July 09, 2024 - Strategies for achieving least privilege at scale - Part 1
- July 09, 2024 - Top four ways to improve your Security Hub security score
- July 08, 2024 - Context window overflow: Breaking the barrier
- July 08, 2024 - Centrally manage VPC network ACL rules to block unwanted traffic using AWSFirewall Manager
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- AWS - On Demand - Level 300 - Advanced - Register for Analytics in 15: Event Detection with Amazon MSK and Kinesis Data Analytics
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- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Enhanced threat detection for Amazon EKS with Amazon GuardDuty
- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Carbyne delivers cloud native 9-1-1 call management using AWS AI services
- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Analytics in 15: Fully Managed SaaS Data Integrations with Amazon AppFlow
- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for AWS for virtually every application
- AWS - On Demand - Level 300 - Advanced - Register for Analytics in 15: Don't Create More Data Silos! Use CDC and Data Streaming
- AWS - On Demand - Level 300 - Advanced - Register for Multiple approaches for protecting data in Amazon DynamoDB
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- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Database performance monitoring and tuning with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS
- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Deliver low latency multiplayer games with AWS edge infrastructure
- AWS - On Demand - Level 400 - Expert - Register for AWS Heroes in 15: Leveraging Rust for MLOps with the Amazon Sagemaker
- AWS - On Demand - Level 300 - Advanced - Register for Deep Dive: PyTorch 2.0 on Graviton
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- AWS - On Demand - Level 300 - Advanced - Register for Easily upload and manage Amazon S3 files in a Next.js web app with AWS Amplify
- AWS - On Demand - Level 300 - Advanced - Register for Analytics in 15: Accelerated ETL for Amazon Redshift with AWS Glue
- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building GenAI Experiences on Amazon SageMaker Ep 1
- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for AWS ML Heroes in 15: Building a Gen AI Comic Video Generator on Amazon SageMaker
- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Analytics in 15: Get Answers From Data in Seconds with Amazon QuickSight Q
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- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Enable cross-team, federated GraphQL APIs with AWS AppSync Merged APIs
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- AWS - On Demand - Level 200 - Intermediate - Register for Machine Learning in 15: Why geospatial ML?
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- AWS - On Demand - Level 300 - Advanced - Register for AWS Heroes in 15: Managing ML Workflows In Production with Amazon SageMaker
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