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AWS – Introducing the updated AWS Government Competency
Today, AWS announced major enhancements to its AWS Government Competency, introducing three categories to help public sector customers effectively identify and engage with validated AWS Partners. This update consolidates and streamlines AWS’s public sector partner offerings by merging the AWS Public Safety Competency and AWS Smart City Competency under the Government Competency. This update features […]

AWS – Announcing Job Completion Metadata Logging for AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS)
Today, AWS announced support for job metadata logs for AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). With this launch, PCS can be configured to emit job completion logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, and Amazon Data Firehose. Each job log will contain detailed metadata including information such as job submission time, start time, completed time, user […]

AWS – AWS expands resource control policies (RCPs) support to two additional services
AWS is expanding resource control policies (RCPs) support to include two additional services: Amazon Elastic Container Registry and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. This expansion enhances your ability to centrally establish a data perimeter across a wider range of AWS resources in your organization. RCPs are available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Europe (Spain) region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Europe (Spain) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, these new instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers the ability to filter out instance details from the DescribeAutoScalingGroups API
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now offers the ability to filter out instance details from the DescribeAutoScalingGroups API with a new parameter. With IncludeInstances set to false, you can quickly access metadata and configurations about your Auto Scaling Groups without the overhead of instance details, reducing the size of the API response and improving API response […]

AWS – AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions Today, AWS launches AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions, enabling you to easily build and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters using the Slurm workload manager. AWS PCS is a managed service that makes […]

AWS – AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Osaka)
AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded its regional presence in Asia Pacific with availability in two new regions – Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Asia Pacific (Osaka). This expansion enables customers with latency-sensitive payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without depending on cross-region support. For customers processing payment workloads in Asia Pacific […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports atomic renaming of objects with a single API call
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports renaming objects with the new RenameObject API. For the first time in S3, you can rename existing objects atomically (with a single operation) without any data movement. The RenameObject API simplifies data management in S3 directory buckets by transforming a multi-step rename operation into a single API call. […]

AWS – Valkey introduces GLIDE 2.0 with support for Go, OpenTelemetry, and pipeline batching
Valkey announces general availability of General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE) 2.0, the latest release of one of its official open source Valkey client libraries. Valkey is the most permissive open source alternative to Redis stewarded by the Linux Foundation, which means it will always be open source. Valkey GLIDE is a reliable, […]
GCP – Automate data resilience at scale with Eon and Google Cloud Backup
Cloud backups were once considered as little more than an insurance policy. Now, your backups should do more! They should be autonomous, cost-efficient, and analytics-ready by default. That’s why Eon built a platform purposefully aligned with Google Cloud to eliminate backup blind spots, simplify recovery, and unlock the value inside backup data without requiring teams […]