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AWS – You can now use your China UnionPay credit card to create an AWS account
Amazon Web Services, Inc. now supports China UnionPay credit cards for creating new AWS accounts, eliminating the need for international credit cards for customers in China. To use China UnionPay for creating your AWS account, enter your address and billing country in China, then provide your local China UnionPay credit card details and verify your […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.8
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.8. You can now create new clusters using version 3.8 with either KRAFT or ZooKeeper mode for metadata management or upgrade your existing ZooKeeper based clusters to use version 3.8. Apache Kafka version 3.8 includes several bug fixes and new features that […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EC2 deployment support
AWS CodePipeline introduces a new action to deploy to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This action enables you to easily deploy your application to a group of EC2 instances behind load balancers. Previously, if you wanted to deploy to EC2 instances, you had to use CodeDeploy with an AppSpec file to configure the deployment. Now, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, 13.20
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, and 13.20. Please note, this release supports the versions released by the PostgreSQL community on February, 20,2025 to address the regression that was part of the February 13, 2025 release. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Multi-ENI networking for homogeneous migrations.
Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS) now supports the Multi-ENI networking model and Credentials Vending System for DMS Homogenous Migrations. Customers can now choose the Multi-ENI connection type and use the Credentials Vending System, providing a simplified networking configuration experience for secure connectivity to their on-premises database instances. For information see documentation for AWS DMS Homogeneous […]
GCP – Introducing Cloud DNS public IP health checks, for more resilient multicloud deployments
Organizations use multiple clouds to gain agility, use resources more efficiently, and leverage the strengths of different cloud providers. However, managing application traffic across these environments is challenging. To support predictable services, organizations need a system that intelligently selects the optimal backend for each request. The selection takes into account both the real-time health of […]
GCP – Optimizing image generation pipelines on Google Cloud: A practical guide
Generative AI diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and Flux produce stunning visuals, empowering creators across various verticals with impressive image generation capabilities. However, generating high-quality images through sophisticated pipelines can be computationally demanding, even with powerful hardware like GPUs and TPUs, impacting both costs and time-to-result. The key challenge lies in optimizing the entire […]
GCP – 8 steps to ensuring a smooth Spanner go-live
As a developer, there’s a lot to think about when you’re getting ready to launch an application. There’s the availability of the underlying database, of course, which stores application state, and determines how fast and you can recover if your application or web servers go down. Thankfully, if you’re running on Spanner, its 99.999% availability […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline adds native Amazon EKS deployment support
AWS CodePipeline introduces a new action to deploy to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). This action enables you to easily deploy your container applications to your EKS clusters, including those in private VPCs. Previously, if you wanted to deploy to a EKS cluster within a private network, you had to initialize and maintain a […]
AWS – AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoices
Today, AWS announces the introduction of Backup Payment Methods for AWS invoices in all commercial AWS Regions. This feature enables customers to set up alternate payment methods that will be automatically charged for their invoices if the primary payment method fails. This will help customers make timely invoice payments without the need for manual intervention […]