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AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3.large instances
Amazon Redshift launches RA3.large, a new smaller size in the RA3 node type with 2 vCPU and 16 GiB memory. You can now benefit from RA3.large as it gives more flexibility in compute options to choose from based on your workload requirements. Amazon Redshift RA3.large offers all the innovation of Redshift Managed Storage (RMS), including […]

AWS – AWS announces Reserved Nodes flexibility for Amazon ElastiCache
Today we’re announcing enhancements to Amazon ElastiCache Reserved Nodes that make them flexible and easier to use, helping you get the most out of your reserved nodes discount. Reserved nodes provide you with a significant discount compared to on-demand node prices, enabling you to optimize costs based on your expected usage. Previously, you needed to […]

GCP – Gemini at Work: Putting AI to work in the public sector
Over the course of the last few years, no technology has transformed how the world functions, or presented opportunities for advancement more than artificial intelligence (AI). At Google, AI is in our DNA. As a pioneer in AI, we have spent the last two decades leveraging AI to organize the world’s information, make it useful, […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now provides option to stop ingestion jobs
Today, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is announcing the general availability of the stop ingestion API. This new API offers you greater control over data ingestion workflows by allowing you to stop an ongoing ingestion job that you no longer want to continue. Earlier, you had to wait for the full completion of an ingestion job, […]

AWS – NICE DCV renames to Amazon DCV and releases version 2024.0 with support for Ubuntu 24.04
Amazon announces DCV version 2024.0. In this latest release, NICE DCV has been renamed to Amazon DCV. The new DCV version introduces several enhancements, including support for Ubuntu 24.04 and enabling the QUIC UDP protocol by default. Amazon DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application […]

AWS – AWS Incident Detection and Response now available in Japanese
Starting today, AWS Incident Detection and Response supports incident engagement in Japanese language. AWS Incident Detection and Response offers AWS Enterprise Support customers proactive engagement and incident management for critical workloads. With AWS Incident Detection and Response, AWS Incident Management Engineers (IMEs) are available 24/7 to detect incidents and engage with you within five minutes […]

AWS – Amazon S3 adds Service Quotas support for S3 general purpose buckets
You can now manage your Amazon S3 general purpose bucket quotas in Service Quotas. Using Service Quotas, you can view the total number of buckets in an AWS account, compare that number to your bucket quota, and request a service quota increase. You can get started using the Amazon S3 page on the Service Quotas […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless introduces Job Run Concurrency and Queuing controls
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce job run admission control on Amazon EMR Serverless with support for job run concurrency […]

AWS – AWS Chatbot adds support to centrally manage access to AWS accounts from Slack and Microsoft Teams with AWS Organizations
AWS announces general availability of AWS Organizations support in AWS Chatbot. AWS customers can now centrally govern access to their accounts from Slack and Microsoft Teams with AWS Organizations. This launch introduces chatbot management policy type in AWS Organizations to control access to your organization’s accounts from chat channels. Using Service Control Policies (SCPs), customers […]
AWS – Amazon MSK APIs now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke Amazon MSK APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. By default, all communication between your Apache Kafka clients and your Amazon MSK provisioned clusters is private, and your data […]