Summary of AWS blogs for the week of Monday Aug 07

In the week of Mon Aug 07 2023 AWS published 80 blog posts – here is an overview of what happened.

Topics Covered

Desktop and Application Streaming

Migrating from Amazon WorkSpaces Services to Microsoft 365

Amazon WorkSpaces services can be used to run office productivity applications. Currently, customers can purchase Microsoft Office as part of a WorkSpaces application bundle. However, beginning August 1, 2023, customers can bring Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise licenses to use on Amazon WorkSpaces services. Microsoft 365 adds to the power of WorkSpaces services by incorporating popular services such as Exchange, Skype, SharePoint, and Teams into the WorkSpaces services.

What does Microsoft 365 Offer?

Microsoft 365 offers a wide variety of features to enhance the use of WorkSpaces services. These features include Exchange, Skype, SharePoint, and Teams. Exchange enables customers to access their emails, calendars, and contacts from any device. Skype keeps customers connected with video conferencing, phone and messaging. SharePoint provides secure file storage and collaboration capabilities. And Teams provides chat and collaboration capabilities for customers to work together.

Additional Benefits of Microsoft 365

In addition to the features provided by Microsoft 365, customers will benefit from improved manageability and security. Customers will be able to manage their environment more effectively with remote delivery and fast provisioning. Microsoft 365 also provides enhanced security features such as Multi-Factor Authentication, Data Loss Prevention, and Mobile Device Management.

How can Cloud2 help?

At Cloud2, we provide both professional services and managed services. Our team of experts can help customers with the migration of Amazon WorkSpaces services from Microsoft Office included bundles to Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise. We can help customers assess their current environment and identify the best approach for migrating to Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise. We are also able to provide advice and guidance to ensure customers get the most out of their WorkSpaces services.

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AWS for SAP

Simplify SAP Backups with AWS Services

SAP customers running workloads on AWS should have a solid backup strategy to safeguard their database and application non-database file systems. Backups are critical for recovering systems in case of data loss. AWS customers have multiple third-party, database-native, and AWS-native options for backup strategies.

Third-Party Backup Options

Third-party options provide a wealth of features and customization with their offerings. These solutions often integrate with SAP HANA and can offer features such as APIs, data seeding, database-specific features such as flashback, and cloud storage integrations.

Database-Native Options

Database-native options are the simplest backup solution. The SAP HANA database engine provides the ability to backup and restore data natively. This is a good option for customers wanting a simple, easy-to-implement solution.

AWS-Native Options

AWS-native options provide a lot of automation and flexibility. AWS native backup solutions can be scripted with AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation for automation. With this option, customers can take advantage of AWS services such as AWS Backup and Amazon S3 for storage.

Cloud2 Can Help

At Cloud2, our team of AWS experts provides professional services and managed services specifically tailored to customers running SAP on AWS. Our team can help you to identify the most suitable backup strategy for your situation, including setting up the necessary automation. To learn more about our offerings, please visit our website Cloud2.

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Official Machine Learning Blog of Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services’ Machine Learning blogs

Amazon Translate Enhances Its Custom Terminology

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that enables quick, high-quality, and affordable language translations. To ensure accuracy, fluency, and context, it supports domain-specific and language-specific customizable terminology. Custom terminology helps organizations improve the accuracy and fluency of their translations, and Amazon Translate recently made enhancements to its custom terminology feature. Organizations can now use Amazon Translate to manage and customize up to 10 million terms. This customization enables organizations to use the terms they are familiar with and makes translations more accurate and natural.

Zero-Shot Text Classification With Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an area of machine learning (ML) that focuses on teaching computers to understand text and spoken words like humans. Recent state-of-the-art architectures such as the transformer architecture are being used to achieve near-human performance on NLP downstream tasks such as text summarization, text classification, entity recognition, and more. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart offers a template for zero-shot text classification that enables developers to quickly build and deploy models. This template includes the “zero-shot” capability which allows organizations to train an AI model in an unsupervised manner, without the need for annotated training data.

Build a Centralized Monitoring and Reporting Solution for Amazon SageMaker

This post focuses on building a cross-account observability dashboard for monitoring SageMaker user activities and resources across multiple accounts. It allows end-users and cloud management teams to efficiently monitor ML workloads, view their status, and trace back different account activities at certain points of time. This centralized dashboard is built on Amazon CloudWatch, and it also provides features such as automatic CloudWatch setup, dashboards, and alerts.

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