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AWS – Amazon EKS Adds Support for Bottlerocket FIPS AMIs in Managed Node Groups
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers Bottlerocket FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) AMIs for EKS managed node groups, helping customers to meet federal compliance requirements while leveraging the security of Bottlerocket and the operational benefits of EKS managed node groups. Bottlerocket is a Linux-based operating system optimized for running containers that follows a […]
AWS – Amazon SES now offers attachments in sending APIs
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched support for adding attachments to emails when sending via SES simple sending v2 APIs. Customers can add attachments such as PDF documents to emails, or include images for rendering inline in email content without requiring image downloads. This makes it easier to send richer email content with the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports new minor version for SQL Server 2019
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports a new minor version for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 – 15.0.4430.1). This minor version includes performance improvements and bug fixes, and is available for SQL Server Developer, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU32 for details. We recommend […]
GCP – Accelerate Mainframe Modernization with gen AI from Google Cloud and its partners
Modernizing mainframes has been a long and expensive process for too long. Today, we’re launching new solutions that bring the combined strength of Gemini models, and our partners’ technologies and services to accelerate mainframe modernization. Google Cloud generative AI products for mainframe modernization Google Cloud currently offers three products for mainframe customers looking to reimagine […]
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 with support for Ubuntu 24.04 and support for EFA-enabled with Amazon FSx for Lustre
AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Ubuntu 24.04, an updated Slurm version 24.05.07 and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)-enabled Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems on official ParallelCluster AMIs. You can use EFA with your FSx Lustre filesystems to achieve higher throughput and complete jobs faster, […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
Today, AWS announces an updated service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Neptune, increasing the Monthly Uptime Percentage for Multi-AZ DB Instance, Multi-AZ DB Cluster, and Multi-AZ Graph from 99.90% to 99.99%. This enhancement reflects AWS’s continued commitment to providing a highly available and reliable graph database service for your mission-critical applications. With this new SLA, […]
AWS – SES Mail Manager now supports incoming connections from customer VPCs via PrivateLink
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that its Mail Manager email modernization and infrastructure features now accept incoming connections from customer-provisioned Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to Mail Manager Ingress Endpoints. This makes use of PrivateLink connectivity features already provided by AWS. Since Mail Manager launched in mid-2024, VPC connectivity has become the most-requested new feature […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20250220 and 12.22-rds.20250220
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-rds.20250220 and 12.22-rds.20250220. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major […]
AWS – AWS Glue G4 and G8 worker types now available in six new regions
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue G.4X and G.8X workers in the US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), and South America (São Paulo) AWS regions. Glue G.4X and G.8X workers enable you to run your most demanding serverless data integration workloads in these additional […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SNS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables publish/subscribe messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven […]