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AWS – Announcing Bloom filter support in Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Bloom filters as a new data type in ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey and above. Bloom filters are a space efficient probabilistic data structure that lets you quickly check whether an item is possibly in a set. This new feature is fully compatible with the valkey-bloom module and API compatible with […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available in 22 additional Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available in the US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Thailand), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (London, Milan, Paris, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), Middle East (Bahrain, UAE), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. Aurora PostgreSQL […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a data source
AWS Glue now offers a new native connector for Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling data engineers to easily integrate data from this enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform. This connector allows AWS Glue users to build efficient extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs that seamlessly connect to Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a […]
GCP – Announcing the new Google Developer Program forums
Building applications is sometimes messy, it’s always iterative, and it often works best when it’s collaborative. As a developer, you regularly experience the frustration of a cryptic error message and the quiet triumph of finding a clever workaround. Either way, finding help or sharing success is best facilitated by a community of builders. That’s why […]
GCP – New Cluster Director features: Simplified GUI, managed Slurm, advanced observability
In April, we released Cluster Director, a unified management plane that makes deploying and managing large-scale AI infrastructure simpler and more intuitive than ever before, putting the power of an AI supercomputer at your fingertips. Today, we’re excited to release new features in preview including an intuitive interface, managed Slurm experience, and observability dashboard that […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X8g instances now available in US East (Ohio) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8g instances are available in US East (Ohio) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. X8g instances offer up to 3 TiB of total memory and increased memory per vCPU compared […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 support
Amazon CloudWatch adds support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses to ingest and query metrics, as well as manage alarms, dashboards, and Observability Access Manager (OAM) cross-account observability settings. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their CloudWatch monitoring on a dual-stack network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. The […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances
Starting today, Amazon EC2 gives customers the option to skip the graceful operating system (OS) shutdown during an instance stop or terminate. Previously, customers waited by default for a graceful OS shutdown attempt when stopping or terminating their instances. Customers can now skip the graceful operating system shutdown attempt during stop or terminate for a […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise Query API adds advanced SQL support and ODBC driver
We are announcing major enhancements to the AWS IoT SiteWise Query API (ExecuteQuery) to support a suite of advanced SQL capabilities, empowering customers to perform sophisticated data analysis on their industrial data and business intelligence tool integration. Customers can now leverage advanced SQL operations including string manipulation (such as pattern matching and substring extraction), aggregation […]
AWS – Cost Optimization Hub now supports account names in optimization opportunities
Cost Optimization Hub, a feature within the Billing and Cost Management Console, announces support for account names in cost optimization opportunities. This enhancement allows you to use account names to easily view, filter, consolidate, and prioritize cost optimization recommendations. This launch simplifies the process of identifying and managing cost optimization opportunities across complex account structures. […]