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AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports resource exclusion
Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports the ability to exclude network resources when analyzing reachability between a source and destination, providing you greater flexibility to run reachability analyses. VPC Reachability Analyzer is a configuration analysis feature that enables you to check network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system.. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to deliver status change events
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, enabling you to receive near-real time notifications about changes in your cluster’s status. With this integration, you can easily track key events such as HyperPod cluster status transitions and node health changes. SageMaker HyperPod delivers two types of notifications via EventBridge – 1. Cluster Status Change Events, […]
GCP – From LLMs to image generation: Accelerate inference workloads with AI Hypercomputer
From retail to gaming, from code generation to customer care, an increasing number of organizations are running LLM-based applications, with 78% of organizations in development or production today. As the number of generative AI applications and volume of users scale, the need for performant, scalable, and easy to use inference technologies is critical. At Google […]

AWS – Amazon Connect external voice pricing changes
Amazon Connect now has new pricing models for external voice transfer and Contact Lens with external voice systems. The new pricing models have independent pricing for external voice connectors and external voice minutes and are effective for all customers from May 1, 2025. External voice transfer directly transfers voice calls and metadata from Amazon Connect […]

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure, is now available in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. Amazon DocumentDB provides scalability and durability for mission-critical MongoDB workloads, supporting millions of requests per second and […]