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AWS – Recycle Bin adds support for Amazon EBS Volumes
Recycle Bin for Amazon EBS, which helps you recover accidentally deleted snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs, now supports EBS Volumes. If you accidentally delete a volume, you can now recover it directly from Recycle Bin instead of restoring from a snapshot, reducing your recovery point objective with no data loss between the last snapshot and deletion. […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless adds AWS PrivateLink for management console
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure and private connectivity to management console. With AWS PrivateLink, you can establish a private connection between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless to create, manage, and configure your OpenSearch Serverless resources without using the public internet. By enabling private network connectivity, this enhancement […]
AWS – Amazon RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Web Edition
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ deployment for SQL Server Web Edition. SQL Server Web Edition is specifically designed to support public and internet-accessible web pages, websites, web applications, and web services, and is used by web hosters and web value-added providers (VAPs). These applications need high availability, and […]
AWS – AWS Cloud WAN adds Routing Policy for advanced traffic control and flexible network deployments
AWS announces the general availability of Cloud WAN Routing Policy providing customers fine-grained controls to optimize route management, control traffic patterns, and customize network behavior across their global wide-area networks. AWS Cloud WAN allows you to build, monitor, and manage a unified global network that interconnects your resources in the AWS cloud and your on-premises […]
GCP – From interaction to insight: Announcing BigQuery Agent Analytics for the Google ADK
In a world of agentic AI, building an agent is only half the battle. The other half is understanding how users are interacting with it. What are their most common requests? Where do they get stuck? What paths lead to successful outcomes? Answering these questions is the key to refining your agent and delivering a […]
GCP – Expanding BigQuery Data Transfer Service with new connectors, features, and more
With BigQuery, our goal is to allow you to extract valuable insights from your data, regardless of how much there is, or where it’s from. A key part of how we do this is our BigQuery Data Transfer Service, which automates and streamlines data loading into BigQuery from a wide variety of sources. As a […]
GCP – Announcing Nano Banana Pro for every builder and business
Earlier this year we launched Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). It became the top rated image model in the world, and we were excited to see the overwhelming response from our customers. Nano Banana made it dramatically easier – and more fun – to edit images with natural language and make visuals with consistent […]
AWS – AWS Application Load Balancer launches Target Optimizer
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now offers Target Optimizer, a new feature that allows you to enforce a maximum number of concurrent requests on a target. With Target Optimizer, you can fine-tune your application stack so that targets receive only the number of requests they can process, achieving higher request success rate, more target utilization, and […]
AWS – AWS announces availability of Microsoft SQL Server 2025 images on Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 with License-Included (LI) Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), providing a quick way to launch the latest version of SQL Server. By running SQL Server 2025 on Amazon EC2, customers can take advantage of the security, performance, and reliability of AWS with the latest SQL Server features. Amazon creates […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2
Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2 which introduces native support for the AMQP 1.0 protocol, a new Raft based metadata store named Khepri, local shovels, and message priorities for quorum queues. RabbitMQ 4.2 also includes various bug fixes and performance improvements for throughput and memory management. A key highlight of RabbitMQ 4.2 is the […]