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AWS – Amazon Redshift adds history mode support to 8 third-party SaaS applications
Amazon Redshift now supports history mode for zero-ETL integrations with eight third-party applications including Salesforce, ServiceNow, and SAP. This addition complements existing history mode support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible and MySQL-compatible, DynamoDB, and RDS for MySQL databases. The expansion enables you to track historical data changes without Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes, simplifying data […]
AWS – Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock now generally available
In November 2024, we launched Prompt Optimization in Amazon Bedrock to accelerate prompt creation and engineering for foundation models (FMs). Today, we’re announcing its general availability and pricing. Prompt engineering is the process of designing prompts to guide FMs to generate relevant responses. These prompts must be customized for each FM according to its best […]
AWS – Announcing AWS DMS Serverless automatic storage scaling
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMS Serverless) now offers storage scaling. With this enhancement you never have to worry about exceeding the DMS Serverless 100GB default replication storage capacity limit when processing very large transaction volumes or using detailed logging. You can now use AWS DMS Serverless for replicating even the highest of transaction […]
GCP – SaaS delivery made easy: Meet SaaS Runtime
The demand for software as a service (SaaS) based solutions is exploding, fueled by AI-driven hyper-personalization, the rise of specialized vertical solutions, and a no-code revolution. However, building and scaling a successful SaaS can be daunting for would-be SaaS providers. Challenges include difficulty in creating personalized experiences, management complexity across thousands of instances, and dealing […]
AWS – AWS announces upgrades to Amazon Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook
Today, AWS announced upgrades to the Amazon Q Business integrations for M365 Word and Outlook to enhance their utility when performing document and email centered tasks. The upgrades include company knowledge access, image file attachment support, and an expanded prompt context window. With company knowledge support, users can now ask questions about their company’s indexed […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild adds support for specifying EC2 instance type and configurable storage size
AWS CodeBuild now supports selecting an EC2 instance by name when using reserved capacity fleets. This enhancement also allows you to configure the amount of storage attached to each instance. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. You can select a compute […]
AWS – Customer Carbon Footprint Tool has new features and an updated methodology
Today, AWS announced three updates to enhance your experience with the Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT). These updates include easier access to carbon emissions data, visibility into emissions by AWS Region, and an updated, independently-verified methodology (v2.0). You can now export your monthly data through AWS’s Billing and Cost Management Data Exports service. This feature […]
AWS – AWS Account Management now supports IAM-based account name updates
Today, we are introducing a new account management API that enables customers to update the account name via authorized IAM principals and more efficiently manage account names. This new API is added to the AWS account management APIs that enable AWS Organizations customers to centrally and programmatically manage primary email addresses, primary contact information, alternate […]
AWS – Thinkbox Deadline 10.4.1 release
AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.4.1 is now generally available with support for managing Deadline Cloud Usage-Based Licensing (UBL) together with your existing floating licenses. This release also brings support for Cinema4D 2025, After Effects 2025, Nuke 16, 3ds Max 2026, and Maya 2026. This release enhances how you can manage license limits when using a combination […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I4g instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and 2nd generation AWS Nitro SSDs are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. I4g instances are optimized for workloads performing a high mix of random read/write operations and requiring very low I/O latency and high compute […]