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AWS – Cost Optimization Hub supports recommendations for Amazon Aurora
Cost Optimization Hub now supports instance and cluster storage recommendations for Amazon Aurora databases. These recommendations help you identify idle database instances and choose the optimal DB instance class and storage configuration for your Aurora databases. With this launch, you can view, filter, consolidate, and prioritize Aurora optimization recommendations across your organization’s member accounts and […]
AWS – Amazon Lex adds AWS CloudFormation support for GovCloud (US-West) and advanced features
Amazon Lex now offers AWS CloudFormation support in AWS GovCloud (US-West), extending infrastructure-as-code capabilities to government agencies and their partners.Additionally, CloudFormation support also now includes composite slots and QnAIntent features across all AWS regions where Amazon Lex operates, allowing developers to define, deploy, and manage these advanced conversational components through CloudFormation templates. With CloudFormation support […]
GCP – Cloud Run GPUs, now GA, makes running AI workloads easier for everyone
Developers love Cloud Run, Google Cloud’s serverless runtime, for its simplicity, flexibility, and scalability. And today, we’re thrilled to announce that NVIDIA GPU support for Cloud Run is now generally available, offering a powerful runtime for a variety of use cases that’s also remarkably cost-efficient. Now, you can enjoy the following benefits across both GPUs […]
GCP – How Project Shield helped defend against one of the largest DDoS attacks to date
You can never be sure when you’ll be the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. For investigative journalist Brian Krebs, that day came on May 12, when his site KrebsOnSecurity experienced one of the largest DDoS attacks seen to date. At 6.3 terabits per second (Tbps), or roughly 63,000 times the speed of broadband […]
AWS – Amazon MWAA now provides option to update environments without interrupting task execution
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now provides the option to update environments without interrupting running tasks on supported Apache Airflow versions (v2.4.3 or later). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy […]
AWS – Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for AWS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for AWS, starting with RHEL 10, is now generally available, combining Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Linux software with native AWS integration. RHEL for AWS is built to achieve optimum performance of RHEL running on AWS. This offering features pre-tuned images with AWS-specific performance profiles, built-in Amazon CloudWatch telemetry, integrated AWS Command […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now enables cluster relocation by default for RA3 provisioned clusters
Amazon Redshift now enables cluster relocation by default for RA3 provisioned clusters when creating new clusters or restoring from snapshots. This feature allows you to move a cluster to another Availability Zone (AZ) when resource constraints disrupt cluster operations, maintaining the same endpoint so applications continue without modifications. Amazon Redshift already provides resiliency by automatically […]
AWS – AWS CDK Toolkit Library is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS CDK Toolkit Library, a Node.js library that provides programmatic access to core AWS CDK functionalities such as synthesis, deployment, and destruction of stacks. This library enables developers to integrate CDK operations directly into their applications, custom CLIs, and automation workflows, offering greater flexibility and control over […]
AWS – Amazon EKS introduces configuration insights for Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) announced the general availability of configuration insights for Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes. These new insights surface configuration issues impacting the functionality of Amazon EKS clusters with hybrid nodes, and provide actionable guidance on how to remediate identified misconfigurations. Configuration insights are available through the Amazon EKS cluster insights […]
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now lets you automatically mount your S3 buckets using fstab
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now lets you automatically mount an S3 bucket when your Amazon EC2 instance starts up. This simplifies how you define a consistent mounting configuration that automatically applies when your instance starts up and persists the mount when the instance reboots. Previously, to use Mountpoint for Amazon S3, you had to manually […]