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AWS – Announcing the new Resiliency widget on myApplications
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the new Resiliency widget on myApplications, providing enhanced visibility and proactive control over the resilience posture for each application in myApplications. Using the new Resiliency widget, you can start a resilience assessment directly from the myApplications dashboard. AWS Resilience Hub will automatically create an application based […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift. ARC helps you manage and coordinate recovery for your applications across AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZs). With EKS support for ARC zonal shift and zonal autoshift, you can better maintain Kubernetes application availability by automating the […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding its availability to the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, […]

AWS – Gain deeper insights into Amazon Q Business with new analytics and conversation insights
Amazon Q Business now offers an analytics dashboard and integration with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, providing comprehensive insights into the usage of your Amazon Q Business application environments and Amazon Q Apps. The new analytics dashboard in the Amazon Q Business console offers insights through interactive charts and visualizations, enabling administrators to monitor key metrics such […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora launches Global Database writer endpoint
Amazon Aurora now supports a Global Database writer endpoint. This highly available and fully managed endpoint simplifies routing for your applications and eliminates the need to make application code changes to establish connectivity after initiating a cross-region Global Database Switchover or Failover operation. With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, […]

AWS – AWS Lambda console now features a new code editor based on Code-OSS (VS Code – Open Source)
Today, AWS Lambda announces the launch of a new code editing experience in the Lambda console based on Code-OSS (VS Code – Open Source). This integration brings new interface and productivity features directly into the Lambda console, giving customers a more intuitive coding environment when building serverless applications. The new Code-OSS (VS Code – Open […]

AWS – Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and computer use now in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model is now available in Amazon Bedrock. According to Anthropic, the model delivers across-the-board improvements over its predecessor, with significant gains in coding—an area where it already led the field. The upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model shows wide-ranging improvements on industry benchmarks. On coding the model improves performance on SWE-bench […]

AWS – Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift and zonal autoshift extends support for two new multi-AZ resources
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift and zonal autoshift have expanded their capabilities and now support Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Network Load Balancers (NLB) with cross-zone configuration enabled. ARC zonal shift helps customers quickly recover an unhealthy application in an Availability Zone (AZ), and reduce the duration and severity of impact […]

AWS – AWS DMS now supports homogenous migrations via CLI, SDK and API
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) announces the general availability of CLI, SDK and API support for homogenous data migrations. This launch enables programmatic migration or replication of your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, or MongoDB databases from on-premises or Amazon EC2 sources, to equivalent targets on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, or Amazon DocumentDB. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches query profiler for enhanced query monitoring and diagnostics
Amazon Redshift introduces query profiler for enhanced query visibility and troubleshooting. The query profiler is a feature in the AWS console that provides a visual and graphical representation of query execution plans and statistics, letting you easily monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot query performance without the need for manual analysis of system tables and logs. Enhanced […]