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AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports retrofitting of existing AWS WAF WebACLs
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager enables customers to centrally create policies for AWS WAF that add baseline rule sets to existing WAF WebACLs associated with their resources. Security administrators can now use Firewall Manager policies for WAF to insert first and last rule groups or centrally configure a logging destination for existing WebACLs while leaving […]

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database support for tagging global clusters
Amazon Aurora Global Database now supports applying tags to your global clusters, enabling you to associate metadata information with your overall Global Database cluster. For instance, you can apply a tag to organize resource costs for your entire Global Database cluster, making it easier to categorize and track your AWS costs. Aurora Global Database allows […]

AWS – Announcing increased quotas and improvements to CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection and Pattern Analysis
Amazon CloudWatch is excited to announce improvements to its log pattern analysis and anomaly detection features. First, CloudWatch Logs Insights pattern and diff commands now use named tokens to make the results easier to read. Second, the default quota for Log Anomaly detectors has been increased from 10 to 500 per account. CloudWatch Logs Insights […]

AWS – AWS now accepts partial card payments
Today, we are enabling AWS customers who pay with their cards to make partial payments towards their monthly bill. Until now, customers could only pay their entire bill at once, prior to the due date. With partial payments, customers can split the amount due into smaller payments which they can charge on different cards, to […]

GCP – BigQuery’s AI-assisted data preparation is now in preview
In today’s data-driven world, the ability to efficiently transform raw data into actionable insights is paramount. However, data preparation and cleaning is often a significant challenge. Reducing this time and efficiently transforming raw data into insights is crucial for staying competitive. Earlier this month, we introduced BigQuery data preparation, an AI-first solution that streamlines and […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 24.1
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 24.1 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c and 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 24.1, please refer to Oracle’s documentation. For more details on supported […]

AWS – AWS announces EFA update for scalability with AI/ML applications
AWS announces the launch of a new interface type that decouples the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) from the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA). EFA provides high-bandwidth, low-latency networking crucial for scaling AI/ML workloads. The new interface, “EFA-only”, allows you to create a standalone EFA device on secondary interfaces. This allows you to scale your compute clusters […]

AWS – Announcing pro forma budgets integration for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) customers can monitor their pro forma spend and be alerted when exceeding their desired pro forma spending limit. AWS Partners can use the feature to enable their customers to create budgets based on their usage priced at pro forma rates, which reflect the customer’s specific pricing agreement. The primary […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports using a custom serializer with Java runtimes
AWS Lambda now supports replacing the default Java object serialization library with a customer-defined serializer. This feature is supported in all current Lambda managed runtimes and container base images for Java. The ability to replace the default Java serializer enables customers to adapt their Lambda functions to cases where the incoming event format is not […]