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AWS – Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor is available in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), Europe (London), and Canada (Central) regions. Amazon Q generative SQL is available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor, an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Amazon Redshift, to simplify SQL query authoring and increase your productivity by allowing you to […]

AWS – Easily troubleshoot NodeJS applications with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals
Today, AWS announces the general availability of NodeJS applications monitoring on Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an OpenTelemetry (OTel) compatible application performance monitoring (APM) feature in CloudWatch. Application Signals simplifies the process of automatically tracking application performance against key business or service level objectives (SLOs) for AWS applications. Service operators can access a pre-built, standardized dashboard […]

AWS – AWS Batch now supports multiple EC2 Launch Templates per Compute Environment
AWS Batch now supports association of multiple Launch Templates (LTs) with AWS Batch Compute Environment (CE). You no longer need to create separate AWS Batch CEs if you wanted to apply different configurations based on the size and type of your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. With support for multiple LTs per CE, you […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics support in AWS End User Messaging
Today, AWS announces general availability support for 10 new Amazon CloudWatch metrics in AWS End User Messaging for the SMS and MMS channel. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. You can now use CloudWatch metrics to monitor SMS […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console now uses the service you’re viewing as context for your chat
Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console now provides context-aware assistance for your questions about resources in your account. This feature allows you to ask questions directly related to the console page you’re viewing, eliminating the need to specify the service or resource in your query. Q Developer uses the current page as additional […]

GCP – New Cassandra to Spanner adapter simplifies Yahoo’s migration journey
Cassandra, a key-value NoSQL database, is prized for its speed and scalability, and used broadly for applications that require rapid data retrieval and storage such as caching, session management, and real-time analytics. Its simple key-value pair structure helps ensure high performance and easy management, especially for large datasets. But this simplicity also leads to limitations […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances now support Trainium1 and Inferentia 2 based instances
We are pleased to announce general availability of Trainium1 and Inferentia2 based EC2 instances on SageMaker Notebook Instances. Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium chips, and Inf2 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia chips, are purpose-built for high-performance deep learning training and inference, respectively. Trn1 instances offer cost savings over other comparable Amazon EC2 […]

AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer announces CloudFront integration with built-in WAF
We are announcing a new one-click integration on Application Load Balancer (ALB) to attach an Amazon CloudFront distribution from the ALB console. This enables the easy use of CF as a distributed single point of entry for your application that ingests, absorbs, and filters all inbound traffic before it reaches your ALB. The features also […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core adds capabilities to enrich MQTT messages and simplify permission management
AWS IoT Core, a managed cloud service that lets you securely connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the cloud and manage them at scale, announces two new capabilities – ability to enrich MQTT messages with additional data and use thing-to-connection association for simplifying permission management. Message enrichment capability enables developers to augment MQTT messages […]
AWS – Amazon Data Firehose supports continuous replication of database changes to Apache Iceberg Tables in Amazon S3
Amazon Data Firehose now enables capture and replication of database changes to Apache Iceberg Tables in Amazon S3 (Preview) . This new feature allows customers to easily stream real-time data from MySQL and PostgreSQL databases directly into Apache Iceberg Tables. Firehose is a fully managed, serverless streaming service that enables customers to capture, transform, and […]