The AWS Region in the United Arab Emirates is now open. The official name is Middle East (UAE), and the API name is me-central-1. You can start using it today to deploy workloads and store your data in the United Arab Emirates. The AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is the second Region in the Middle East, joining the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region. The Middle East (UAE) Region has three Availability Zones that you can use to reliably spread your applications across multiple data centers. Each Availability Zone is a fully isolated partition of AWS infrastructure that contains one or more data centers. Availability Zones are in separate and distinct geographic locations with enough distance to reduce the risk of…
AWS Week in Review – August 29, 2022
I’ve just returned from data and machine learning (ML) conferences in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. It’s been great to chat with customers and developers about the latest technology trends and use cases. This past week has also been packed with launches at AWS. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week: Amazon QuickSight announces fine-grained visual embedding. You can now embed individual visuals from QuickSight dashboards in applications and portals to provide key insights to users where they’re needed most. Check out Donnie’s blog post to learn more, and tune into this week’s The Official AWS Podcast episode. Sample Web App with a Visual Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now…
Announcing the latest AWS Heroes – August 2022
The global AWS community is filled with passionate builders, eager to learn and explore ways to build better and faster on AWS. Within the AWS community, a select few individuals truly go above and beyond to share their knowledge and inspire others through content creation, event organization, open source contributions, and more. These community leaders are called AWS Heroes, and today we are thrilled to recognize the latest cohort: Alexey Grigorev – Berlin, Germany Machine Learning Hero Alexey Grigorev works as a principal data scientist at OLX and he runs DataTalks.Club, a community of 20,000+ data enthusiasts. He has written a few books about machine learning. One of them is Machine Learning Bookcamp, a book for software engineers who want…
New — Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight
Today, we are announcing a new feature, Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight. With this feature, individual visualizations from Amazon QuickSight dashboards can now be embedded in high-traffic webpages and applications. Additionally, this feature enables you to provide rich insights for your end-users where they need them the most, without server or software setup or infrastructure management. This is a quick preview of this new feature: Quick Preview: Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Powered by Amazon QuickSight New Feature: Fine-Grained Visual Embedding Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-based embeddable and ML-powered business intelligence (BI) service that delivers interactive data visualizations, analysis, and reporting to enable data-driven decision-making within the organization and with the end user, without servers to manage. Amazon QuickSight supports…