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AWS – AWS Config now supports resource tags for IAM Policies
AWS Config now tracks resource tags for IAM policy resource types, enhancing the granularity of metadata you can capture to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of your IAM policies. With this enhancement, you can now track resource tags and their changes for IAM Policies directly in your Config recorder. This capability allows you to scope […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database now supports PostgreSQL 16.9
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.9 compatibility. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora Limitless-specific additions such as support for the hstore extension, the auto_explain extension, and various performance improvements. The hstore extension allows for storing sets of key/value pairs within […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS User Notifications
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Organizational Notification Configurations for AWS User Notifications. This launch allows AWS Organizations users to centrally configure and view notifications across their organization. You can use the Management Account or Delegated Administrators (DAs) to configure and view notifications about accounts included in specific organizational units (OUs) or all accounts […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 CU32 KB5063757 (RDS version 15.00.4440.1.v1) and SQL Server 2022 CU20 KB5063814 (RDS version 16.00.4210.1.v1). The GDR updates address vulnerabilities described in CVE-2025-49758, CVE-2025-24999, CVE-2025-49759, […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports organization-wide reports in six additional regions
AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports cross-account, cross-Region reports in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. Now, you can use your AWS Organizations’ management or delegated administrator account to generate aggregated cross-account and cross-Region reports on your data protection policies and retrieve operational data about your backup and […]
GCP – Agent Factory Recap: Keith Ballinger on AI, The Future of Development, and Vibe Coding
In Episode #6 of the Agent Factory podcast, Vlad Kolesnikov and I were joined by Keith Ballinger, VP and General Manager at Google Cloud, for a deep dive into the transformative future of software development with AI. We explore how AI agents are reshaping the developer’s role and boosting team productivity. This post guides you […]
GCP – How Baseten achieves 225% better cost-performance for AI inference (and you can too)
Baseten is one of a growing number of AI infrastructure providers, helping other startups run their models and experiments at speed and scale. Given the importance of those two factors to its customers, Baseten has just passed a significant milestone. By leveraging the latest Google Cloud A4 virtual machines (VMs) based on NVIDIA Blackwell, and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 announces AMI Usage to better monitor the use of AMIs
Amazon EC2 introduces AMI Usage, providing new capabilities that allow you to track AMI consumption across AWS accounts and identify resources in your account that are dependent on particular AMIs. This enhanced visibility helps you monitor AMI utilization patterns across your AWS infrastructure and safely manage AMI deregistrations. Up until today, you had to write […]
AWS – Validate best practice compliance for SAP with AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager Configuration Manager now supports SAP HANA, allowing you to automatically test your SAP HANA databases running on AWS against best practices defined in the AWS Well-Architected Framework SAP Lens. Keeping SAP optimally configured requires SAP administrators to stay current with best practices from multiple sources including AWS, SAP, and operating system vendors […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Database now supports Public Endpoints for simplified development access
Amazon Neptune Database, a fully managed graph database service, now supports Public Endpoints, allowing developers to connect directly to Neptune databases from their development desktops without complex networking configurations. With Public Endpoints, developers can securely access their Neptune databases from outside the VPC, eliminating the need for VPN connections, bastion hosts, or other networking configurations. […]