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AWS – AWS announces Media Quality-Aware Resiliency for live streaming
Starting today, you can enable Media Quality-Aware Resiliency (MQAR), an integrated capability between Amazon CloudFront and AWS Media Services that provides dynamic, cross-region origin selection and failover based on a dynamically generated video quality score. Built for customers that need always-on ‘eyes-on-glass’ to deliver live events and 24/7 programming channels, MQAR automatically switches between regions […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 now provides lineage information for your AMIs
Amazon EC2 now provides source details for your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). With this lineage information, you can easily trace any copied or derived AMI back to their original AMI source. Prior to today, you had to maintain a list of AMIs, use tags, and create custom scripts to track the origins of an AMI. […]

AWS – AWS DMS now delivers improved performance for data validation
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has enhanced data validation performance for database migrations, enabling customers to validate large datasets with significantly faster processing times. This enhanced data validation is now available in version 3.5.4 of the replication engine for both full load and full load with CDC migration tasks. Currently, this enhancement supports migration […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace announces improved offer and agreement management capabilities for sellers
AWS Marketplace now offers improved capabilities to help sellers manage agreements and create new offers more efficiently. Sellers can access an improved agreements navigation experience, export details to PDF, and clone past private offers in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. The new agreements experience makes it easier to find agreements for a specific offer or […]

AWS – Amazon MWAA adds smaller environment size
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers a micro environment size, giving customers of the managed service the ability to create multiple, independent environments for development and data isolation at a lower cost. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments Green storage fully performant prior to switchover
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Blue/Green Deployments now support managed initialization of Green storage volumes that accelerates the loading of storage blocks from Amazon S3. This ensures that the volumes are fully performant prior to switchover of the Green databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment, or Green database, by restoring the […]

AWS – Amazon SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K
Amazon SQS increases the in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K messages. When a message is sent to an SQS FIFO queue, it is added to the queue backlog. Once you invoke a receive request on the FIFO queue, the message is now marked as in-flight and remains in-flight until a delete message […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. You are able […]

AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in 34 regions. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Amazon MQ reduces your operational responsibilities […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Ruby 3.3
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Ruby 3.3 on AL2023 adds support for a new parser, a new pure-Ruby just-in-time compiler and several performance improvements. You can create Elastic Beanstalk environment(s) running Ruby 3.3 on […]