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AWS – Amazon Bedrock announces support for cost allocation tags on inference profiles
Amazon Bedrock now enables customers to allocate and track on-demand foundation model usage. Customers can categorize their GenAI inference costs by department, team, or application using AWS cost allocation tags. You can leverage this feature by creating an application inference profile and tagging it. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces WSP enables desktop traffic over TCP/UDP port 443
Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon DCV-enabled desktop traffic now supports both TCP and UDP over Port 443. This feature will be used automatically, requiring no configuration changes. Customers using port 4195 can continue to do so. The WorkSpaces client application prioritizes UDP (QUIC) for optimal performance, but will fallback to TCP if UDP is blocked. The WorkSpaces […]

AWS – AWS announces CSV result format support for Amazon Redshift Data API
Amazon Redshift Data API enables you to access data efficiently from Amazon Redshift data warehouses by eliminating the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, data buffering, and more. Data API now supports comma seperated values (CSV) result format which provides flexibility in how you access and process data, allowing you to choose between […]

AWS – AWS announces new edge location in Qatar
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in Qatar by launching a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in Doha, Qatar. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand […]

AWS – AWS Incident Detection and Response now available in 16 additional AWS regions
Starting today, AWS Incident Detection and Response is now available in 16 additional AWS regions. This service provides AWS Enterprise Support customers with proactive engagement and incident management, aimed at minimizing the risk of failures and accelerating the recovery of your critical workloads. AWS experts will assess your workloads for resilience, observability, and create customized […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M8g instances in Dallas Local Zone
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances in Dallas Local Zone. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports Data API for Aurora MySQL
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now allows customers to monitor queries run through the RDS Data API for Aurora MySQL clusters. The RDS Data API provides an HTTP endpoint to run SQL statements on an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. With this launch, customers are now able to use Performance Insights to monitor the […]

AWS – Amazon RDS announces cross-region automated backups in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Africa (Cape Town)
Cross-Region Automated Backup replication for Amazon RDS is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. This launch allows you to setup automated backup replication between Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai); and between Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), or Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. Automated Backups enable recovery capability […]

AWS – AWS Partner Central now supports dedicated Slack channels for collaboration on co-selling opportunities
AWS Partners can now request dedicated Slack channels through AWS Partner Central to collaborate with AWS sales teams on ACE co-selling opportunities. This feature helps simplify communication, ensuring all members stay updated on deal progression, enabling better collaboration and more efficient deal closure for strategic customer engagements. Partners can request a Slack channel for an […]
GCP – FEDRAMP High Development in the Cloud: Code with Cloud Workstations
In the demanding world of federal software development, teams are constantly challenged to deliver innovative solutions while upholding the highest security standards. The complexity of scaling teams, managing infrastructure, and ensuring consistent development environments can quickly become overwhelming. In a recent webinar featuring Forrester, Devin Dickerson, Principal Analyst at Forrester, discussed the results of a […]