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AWS – Amazon EC2 introduces Allowed AMIs to enhance AMI governance
Amazon EC2 introduces Allowed AMIs, a new account-wide setting that enables you to limit the discovery and use of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within your AWS accounts. You can now simply specify the AMI owner accounts or AMI owner aliases permitted within your account, and only AMIs from these owners will be visible and available […]

AWS – Amazon S3 adds new default data integrity protections
Amazon S3 updates the default behavior of object upload requests with new data integrity protections that build upon S3’s existing durability posture. The latest AWS SDKs now automatically calculate CRC-based checksums for uploads as data is transmitted over the network. S3 independently verifies these checksums and accepts objects after confirming that data integrity was maintained […]

AWS – Storage Browser for Amazon S3 is now generally available
Amazon S3 is announcing the general availability of Storage Browser for S3, an open source component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. With Storage Browser for S3, you can provide authorized end users, such as customers, partners, and employees, […]

AWS – Announcing the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region, a fully managed, active-active, multi-Region database that lets you build multi-Region applications with up to 99.999% availability and microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write latencies. MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible database service providing multi-AZ durability, microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 next generation high density Storage Optimized I7ie instances
Amazon Web Services is announcing general availability for next generation high density Storage Optimized I7ie instances. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience
Amazon Web Services announces a new integrated analytics experience and zero-ETL integration between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service for customers to get the best of both services. CloudWatch customers can now leverage OpenSearch’s Piped Processing Language (PPL) and OpenSearch SQL. Additionally, CloudWatch customers can accelerate troubleshooting with out-of-the-box curated dashboards for vended logs like […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a zero-ETL integration with Amazon Security Lake, enabling you to query and analyze security data in-place directly through OpenSearch. This integration allows you to efficiently explore voluminous data sources that were previously cost-prohibitive to analyze, helping you streamline security investigations and obtain comprehensive visibility of your security landscape. By offering […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS). With this launch, Amazon FSx for Lustre now provides the fastest storage performance for GPU instances in the cloud, delivering up to 12x higher throughput per client […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer launches Java upgrade transformation CLI (Public Preview)
Amazon Q Developer launches public preview of Java upgrade transformation CLI (command line interface). The CLI allows you to invoke transformations from the command line and perform transformations at scale. The CLI provides the following capabilities: Transform your Java applications from Java 8, Java 11 to Java 17 (available in the IDE and now in […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer for the Eclipse IDE is now in public preview
The Amazon Q Developer plugin for the Eclipse IDE is now in public preview. With this launch, developers can leverage the power of Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, within the Eclipse IDE. Eclipse developers can now chat with Amazon Q Developer about their project and code faster with inline […]