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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2025 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, […]

AWS – Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to 10 more AWS Regions
Amazon MSK has added support for Express brokers in all AWS Regions where Amazon MSK offers Graviton3 based M7g instances. You can now benefit from Amazon MSK Express brokers in ten additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (London), Canada […]

AWS – Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations
Cost Optimization Hub now supports idle EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations and rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups with scaling policies and multiple instance types. It also allows you to easily filter and aggregate EC2 Auto Scaling group cost optimization opportunities separately from standalone EC2 instances, making it easier to identify EC2 Auto Scaling groups […]

AWS – AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) now includes Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). This integration allows customers to use VS Code to view, create and manage Amazon DocumentDB resources. To get started, you can download the latest AWS-Toolkit extension from VSCode marketplace or update your AWS-Toolkit extension if you already have it installed in […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 announces price reduction
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for Amazon S3 provides a fully-managed offering to scan new object uploads to S3 bucket for malware. Starting February 1, 2025, we are lowering the price for the data scanned dimension by 85%. Over the past few months we have made improvements to our scanning infrastructure and data processing efficiencies, enabling […]

AWS – AWS AppSync releases CDK L2 constructs to simplify creating WebSocket APIs
AWS AppSync Events allows developers to create serverless WebSocket APIs that can broadcast real-time data to millions of subscribers without managing infrastructure or connection state. Developers simply create their API, and publish events without having the worry about scale and handling fan-out. Today, AWS AppSync announces the release of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 […]

AWS – AWS Verified Access launches Zero Trust access to resources over non-HTTP(S) protocols
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Verified Access’ support for secure access to resources that connect over protocols such as TCP, SSH, and RDP. With this launch, you can use Verified Access to provide secure VPN-less access to all your corporate applications and resources using AWS zero trust principles. This feature eliminates the […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces is now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. With Amazon Keyspaces, you can run your Cassandra workloads on AWS using the same Cassandra application code and developer tools that you use today. The service is completely serverless, eliminating the […]

GCP – Announcing public beta of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases
Today, we are thrilled to announce the public beta launch of Gen AI Toolbox for Databases in partnership with LangChain, the leading orchestration framework for developers building large language model (LLM) applications. Gen AI Toolbox for Databases (Toolbox) is an open-source server that empowers application developers to connect production-grade, agent-based generative AI (gen AI) applications […]
GCP – Rightsize your Memorystore for Redis Clusters with open-source Autoscaler
One of the most compelling aspects of cloud computing is being able to automatically scale resources up, but almost as importantly, to scale them back down to manage costs and performance. This is standard practice with virtual machines, for instance Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups, but because of their inherent complexity, less so with stateful […]