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AWS – AWS License Manager allows enforcing licensing rules with shared AMIs across multiple AWS accounts
AWS License Manager allows administrators to create customized licensing rules in license configurations to emulate the terms of their vendor agreements. Administrators can use License Manager to enforce these rules by attaching license configurations to their Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Administrators can now attach license configurations to their AMIs to make the enforcement effective across […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, a fully managed, integrated, and pay-as-you-go container monitoring and analytics service for CloudWatch in AWS GovCloud (US). CloudWatch Container Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your container metrics, Prometheus metrics, application logs, and performance events through automated dashboards in the CloudWatch console. These dashboards […]

AWS – Third-party software built for Amazon S3 is now available in the Amazon S3 Management Console, powered by AWS Marketplace
Starting today, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) customers can discover a curated collection of third-party software built for Amazon S3 from within the S3 Management Console. Customers can choose from free or paid software products across SaaS, AMI, CFT, and Container product types, spanning across a wide range of popular categories including Storage, Back-up and […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now integrate with Amazon EventBridge for easier operations and monitoring
Starting today, EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet (further referred to as Fleet) are integrated with Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events) to notify you about important Fleet events, state changes, and errors. This allows you to automate actions in response to Fleet state changes as well as monitor the state of your Fleet from a central […]

AWS – Announcing Code Signing, a trust and integrity control for AWS Lambda
You can now ensure that only trusted and verified code is deployed in your AWS Lambda functions. With Code Signing for Lambda, administrators can configure Lambda functions to only accept signed code on deployment. When developers deploy signed code to such functions, Lambda checks the signatures to ensure the code is not altered or tampered. […]

AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. You can now synthesize over 15 NTTS voices, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you can continue to synthesize the over 60 standard voices […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless as a target
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) as a target. Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL-compatible edition) is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration where the database will automatically start up, shut down, and scale capacity up or down based on your application’s needs. Using AWS DMS, you can […]

GCP – Closing the gap: Migration completeness when using Database Migration Service
Database Migration Service (DMS) provides high-fidelity, minimal downtime migrations for MySQL (Preview) and PostgreSQL (available in Preview by request) workloads to Cloud SQL. Since DMS is serverless, you don’t have to worry about provisioning, managing, or monitoring any migration-specific resources. In this post, we’ll focus on what is and is not included in database migration […]

AWS – Now you can use Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to capture item-level changes in your Amazon DynamoDB tables
With Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB, you can capture item-level changes in your DynamoDB tables as a Kinesis data stream. You can enable streaming to a Kinesis data stream on your table with a single click in the DynamoDB console, or via the AWS API or AWS CLI. Read More for the […]
AWS – You now can use a SQL-compatible query language to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB
You now can use PartiQL (a SQL-compatible query language)—in addition to already-available DynamoDB operations—to query, insert, update, and delete table data in Amazon DynamoDB. PartiQL makes it easier to interact with DynamoDB and run queries in the AWS Management Console. Because PartiQL is supported for all DynamoDB data-plane operations, it can help improve the productivity […]