AWS introduces its own machine learning chip
Amazon has announced the AWS Trainium. It is a chip specially designed for machine learning tasks. The company claims that the chip is faster than competitors in the cloud.
Trainium offers support for TensorFlow, PyTorch and MXNet. According to AWS, instances with Trainium have a 30 percent high...
Nutanix improved Objects and Files services
Nutanix has updated two of its storage products. New features have been added to both Objects and Files for better integration with the AWS products.
Objects
Objects now allows companies to shift data between their own servers and AWS. The new feature allows customers to cheaply store data th...
AWS is now Zoom’s ‘preferred cloud’
AWS has announced in a press release that Zoom has selected the tech giant as its preferred cloud provider. The message follows only months after a similar claim from Oracle.
In the press release, AWS claims that it has struck a deal with the company behind the popular video conferencing app. In...
AWS launches a new data preparation service for machine learning
Named SageMaker Data Wrangler, Amazon's new service makes it easy for data scientists to prepare data for machine learning training. The company also launched SageMaker Feature Store, available in SageMaker Studio, a relatively new service.
With it, one can name, find, organize, and share ...
Amazon introduces translation tool for SQL commands
Amazon has announced Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL. The tool is not to be confused with Yahoo's defunct translation application, is capable of translating commands for a T-SQL database to PostgreSQL commands on the go.
The translation tool directly attacks Microsoft. It is difficult to persuad...
AWS partners with BlackBerry to develop and market Ivy
Amazon Web Services announced that it made a multi-year deal partnership to work with BlackBerry to develop the latter’s in-vehicle data platform, named Ivy. BlackBerry’s Ivy is targeted at automakers seeking a standardized way to read data collected from vehicle sensors.
They can then analy...
AWS adds macOS instances to EC2
Customers of AWS now have the option to use virtual macOS machines. Among other things, the machines can be used for the development of Xcode applications.
Since Apple does not sell any server hardware, Amazon makes use of Mac minis. The computers can integrate macOS 10.14 Mojave or 10.15 Catali...
AWS makes Graph Notebook open source to make graph database analysis easier
Amazon Web Services' latest open source project is called Graph Notebook, enabling data scientists to analyze and visualize information stored in their companies' databases. Graph Notebook is made using software components developed for Amazon Neptune, a managed graph database service.
The proje...
AWS unveals managed big data service of Apache Airflow
Amazon Web Services launched a new managed product to help its users conduct data processing workloads in the cloud. The new service is named Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow. Users can deploy the open-source Apache Airflow tool to author, schedule, and monitor data workflows.
The chi...
Amazon Translate makes translations more personal
Amazon has released a new version of its translation machine. The Translate software has a new feature that allows users to change the translation style based on previous translations.
The new feature is called Active Custom Translation (ACT). Users can add parallel data (PD), containing example...
Redis is now the most popular database within AWS
Redis, an open-source NoSQL database, is currently proving to be the most popular database within Amazon Web Services' offering. In other cloud providers, the database is a lot lower in the ranks.
The claim is made by Sumo Logic, a company focused on the development of analysis software and with...
Amazon S3 Storage Lens delivers storage cost optimization
Interactive dashboards provide organization-wide visibility to improve efficiency.
Amazon announced this week that AWS customers will have access to a new feature that improves visibility into object storage. Amazon S3 Storage Lens delivers insights that can help them to discover anomalies and ...