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AWS Glue Data Quality now supports distribution statistics for data profiling - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

AWS Glue Data Quality now supports a new Distribution Analyzer that generates frequency distribution profiles for your data. Using this new Distribution Analyzer in the Data Quality Definition Language (DQDL), you can generate histograms for numeric columns and value distributions for categorical, date, and boolean columns. With support for custom bin counts, you can explore the shape and patterns of your data at the granularity that matters most to your use case. Understanding how data is distributed is foundational to building reliable data pipelines. Distribution statistics help you quickly identify skewness, outliers, and unexpected patterns across your datasets, without writing custom code. The capability integrates directly with your existing DQDL rulesets, so you can add distribution profiling alongside your current data quality checks in a single evaluation run. Distribution statistics are stored in Amazon S3 for future querying through services like Amazon Athena, and are al...
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring TDE databases on Mult-AZ instances - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports restoring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-enabled SQL Server databases on Multi-AZ instances and instances configured with a read replica in the same region, using native backup and restore. Previously, TDE-enabled database restore was available only for Single-AZ instances, requiring you to disable TDE or migrate to a Single-AZ configuration before restoring encrypted databases. You can restore TDE-enabled database backups directly to Amazon RDS for SQL Server Multi-AZ instances and instances configured with a read replica in the same region. Back up your existing TDE certificate, store it in Amazon S3, and restore it to your Amazon RDS instance with the TDE option enabled. Then, restore your TDE-enabled database backup from Amazon S3 using Amazon RDS native backup and restore. This simplifies your migration and recovery workflows when you require both encryption at rest with TDE and the high availabi...
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[MS] Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 6 - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

It looked like we were done when we fixed the problem of releasing a non-marshalable delegate on the correct thread . But we missed something. Again. if (d.try_as<::INoMarshal>()) { void* p; if constexpr (std::is_reference_v<Delegate>) { p = winrt::detach_abi(d); } else { winrt::copy_to_abi(d, p); } return [p = std::unique_ptr<void, in_context_deleter>(p), token = get_context_token()](auto&&...args) { if (token == get_context_token()) { std::remove_reference_t<Delegate> d; winrt::copy_from_abi(d, p.get()); d(std::forward<decltype(args)>(args)...); } else { throw winrt::hresult_error(CO_E_NOT_SUPPORTED); } }; } The first part gets a raw ABI pointer, either by moving it out of the inbound delegate if we can, else ...
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[MS] Analyze MSBuild Binary Logs with Copilot in VS Code - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

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You know the moment. CI goes red, or a build that took 8 seconds yesterday now takes 40, and you're staring at a wall of MSBuild output trying to find the one line that matters. The answer is almost always sitting in the binary log ( .binlog ) - it records every project, target, task, property, and diagnostic in the build. The problem is that reading one has meant firing up a separate viewer and already knowing where to look. What if you could just ask ? That's the idea behind the MSBuild Binlog Analyzer for VS Code, now in Preview on the Visual Studio Marketplace . It brings binlog analysis right into your editor and hands the tedious detective work to GitHub Copilot Chat - so you can stay in the flow and keep shipping. Just want an agent to investigate builds for you - say, unattended in CI? Check out the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server - the same analysis engine, driven headlessly. This post is about the interactive, in-editor experience. The problems it solves Buil...
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor adds configurable ad timeout and concurrency controls for improved ad fill and faster startup - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now gives you direct control over ad decision server (ADS) timeout. Previously, changing these settings required contacting AWS Support. You can now configure individual HTTP ad request timeouts, total ad personalization time budgets for live, VOD, and live ad prefetch, and enable parallel ADS requests. These settings allow you to optimize ad delivery performance for your specific workflows. For example, you can increase the personalization time budget for live events to improve ad fill rates or enable parallel ADS requests in VOD workflows to reduce overall response time for faster video startup. New prefetch-specific timeout settings give you additional granularity for livestream ad retrieval. You can configure these settings through the AWS Elemental MediaTailor console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs using the new AdsPersonalizationTimeouts and AdsPersonalizationConcurrency parameters on your playback configurations. This feature is available in all AWS Region...
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[MS] A new way to bring native Windows APIs to JavaScript - introducing dynamic API projections for Node.js - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

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Electron and Node.js make it straightforward to build Windows desktop apps in JavaScript. Calling Windows Runtime APIs has been less straightforward: features such as on-device AI often required a C++ or C# bridge, manual translation of WinRT types and asynchronous behavior, and wrapper code for every exposed API. That meant another language and toolchain to build, test, and keep compatible with Electron. We're making  a dynamic Windows Runtime API (WinRT) projection for Node.js  available in public preview. It lets an Electron app or plain Node.js process call supported Windows Runtime APIs directly from JavaScript or TypeScript. Start with one npm package; the tooling generates JavaScript wrappers and TypeScript declarations for the Windows features you choose. No app-specific native addon,  node-gyp  setup, or C++ wrapper is required. What makes this projection different The Windows Runtime already has static language projections for  C++/WinRT ,  C#/WinRT ,  wi...
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[MS] Java OpenJDK July 2026 Patch & Security Update - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Hello Java customers! We are happy to announce the latest July 2026 patch & security update release for the  Microsoft Build of OpenJDK . Check our  release notes  page for details on fixes and enhancements or  download and install  the binaries today. The source code of our builds are now available on GitHub for further inspection: OpenJDK 25.0.4 OpenJDK 21.0.12 OpenJDK 17.0.20 OpenJDK 11.0.32 Microsoft Build of OpenJDK specific updates OpenJDK 25 Used the "Processor Information" counter to enumerate processors in all processor groups Added optimized aarch64_get_thread_helper() for Windows/ARM64 Marked Reserved Stack Area as unsupported on Windows/ARM64 OpenJDK 21 Used the "Processor Information" counter to enumerate processors in all processor groups Marked Reserved Stack Area as unsupported on Windows/ARM64 OpenJDK 17 Used the "Processor Information" counter to enumerate processors in all processo...
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