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AWS – AWS HealthLake is now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region
Starting today, European healthcare and life sciences customers can use AWS HealthLake to store, transform, and analyze their health data in FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperable Resources) standards while maintaining data residency within the EU. AWS HealthLake is a fully managed FHIR storage, transactional, and analytics service. Customers can normalize and store health data from disparate […]
AWS – Announcing open sourcing pgactive: active-active replication extension for PostgreSQL
Today, AWS announces the open sourcing of pgactive, a PostgreSQL extension for active-active replication. pgactive lets you use asynchronous active-active replication for streaming data between database instances to provide additional resiliency and flexibility in moving data between database instances, including writers located in different regions. This helps maintain availability for operations like switching write traffic […]
GCP – Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the memory-optimized machine series: Compute Engine M4, our most performant memory-optimized VM with under 6TB of memory. The M4 family is designed for workloads like SAP HANA, SQL Server, and in-memory analytics that benefit from higher memory-to-core ratio. The M4 is based on Intel’s latest 5th […]
GCP – Simplify your streaming pipelines with new Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms
Today, we’re introducing Pub/Sub Single Message Transforms (SMTs) to make it easy to perform simple data transformations right within Pub/Sub itself. This comes at a time when businesses are increasingly reliant on streaming data to derive real-time insights, understand evolving customer trends, and ultimately make critical decisions that impact their bottom line and strategic direction. […]
AWS – AWS Backup is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI Training Jobs announces general availability of P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances in Training Jobs, powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in […]
AWS – Ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence into Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence and seamlessly index it in Amazon OpenSearch managed clusters and serverless collections. With this integration, you can now create a unified searchable knowledge base of all your data in Atlassian Jira and Confluence to power your RAG applications. This integration allows data […]
AWS – AWS KMS launches on-demand key rotation for imported keys
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is announcing support for on-demand rotation of symmetric encryption KMS keys with imported key material. This new capability enables you to rotate the cryptographic key material of Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK) keys without changing the key identifier (key ARN). Rotating keys helps you meet compliance requirements and security best […]
AWS – Amazon Connect enhances hold duration tracking for multiparty calls
Amazon Connect now allows you to track durations of holds initiated by individual agents in multiparty calling scenarios through the new Agent Initiated Hold Duration field on the contact record. This new field allows contact center managers to gain insights into hold patterns at the individual agent level during customer interactions. This also provides other […]
AWS – Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Amazon EFS is designed to provide serverless, fully elastic file storage that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage capacity and performance. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without […]