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AWS – Gain deeper insights into Amazon Q Business with new analytics and conversation insights
Amazon Q Business now offers an analytics dashboard and integration with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, providing comprehensive insights into the usage of your Amazon Q Business application environments and Amazon Q Apps. The new analytics dashboard in the Amazon Q Business console offers insights through interactive charts and visualizations, enabling administrators to monitor key metrics such […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint
Amazon Aurora now supports a Global Database writer endpoint. This highly available and fully managed endpoint simplifies routing for your applications and eliminates the need to make application code changes to establish connectivity after initiating a cross-region Global Database Switchover or Failover operation. With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, […]

AWS – AWS Lambda console now features a new code editor based on Code-OSS (VS Code – Open Source)
Today, AWS Lambda announces the launch of a new code editing experience in the Lambda console based on Code-OSS (VS Code – Open Source). This integration brings new interface and productivity features directly into the Lambda console, giving customers a more intuitive coding environment when building serverless applications. The new Code-OSS (VS Code – Open […]

AWS – Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and computer use now in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. According to Anthropic, the model delivers across-the-board improvements over its predecessor, with significant gains in coding—an area where it already led the field. The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model shows wide-ranging improvements on industry benchmarks. On coding the model improves performance on SWE-bench […]

AWS – Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift extends support for two new multi-AZ resources
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift have expanded their capabilities and now support Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Network Load Balancers (NLB) with cross-zone configuration enabled. ARC zonal shift helps customers quickly recover an unhealthy application in an Availability Zone (AZ), and reduce the duration and severity of impact […]

AWS – AWS DMS now supports homogenous migrations via CLI, SDK and API
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) announces the general availability of CLI, SDK and API support for homogenous data migrations. This launch enables programmatic migration or replication of your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or MongoDB databases from on-premises or Amazon EC2 sources, to equivalent targets on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, or Amazon DocumentDB. […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift launches query profiler for enhanced query monitoring and diagnostics
Amazon Redshift introduces query profiler for enhanced query visibility and troubleshooting. The query profiler is a feature in the AWS console that provides a visual and graphical representation of query execution plans and statistics, letting you easily monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot query performance without the need for manual analysis of system tables and logs. Enhanced […]

AWS – Enhanced Monitoring for applications hosted on Amazon ECS via Application Signals
Today, AWS announces enhanced monitoring for applications hosted in Amazon ECS with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) feature in CloudWatch, that makes it easy to automatically instrument and track application performance against their most important business or service level objectives (SLOs). With no manual effort or custom code required, Application Signals’ […]

AWS – Amazon EKS endpoints now support connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon EKS introduces dual stack support for the EKS management API endpoint and the Kubernetes API server endpoint in IPv6 EKS clusters, enabling you to connect using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients. Dual stack support is also available when the EKS management API endpoint is privately […]
GCP – Measuring developer experience with the HEART Framework: A guide for platform engineers
At the end of the day, developers build, test, deploy and maintain software. But like with lots of things, it’s about the journey, not the destination. Among platform engineers, we sometimes refer to that journey as the developer experience (DX), which encompasses how developers feel and interact with the tools and services they use throughout […]