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AWS – PostgreSQL 17 RC1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database preview environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 17 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 17 RC1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants introduce the ListCallerAccessGrants API
Amazon S3 Access Grants now support ListCallerAccessGrants, a new API that allows AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and AWS IAM Identity Center end users to list all S3 buckets, prefixes, and objects they can access, as defined by their S3 Access Grants. Customers can use ListCallerAccessGrants to build applications that identify and then […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Pools now allows you to bring your Windows 10 or 11 licenses
Amazon Web Services announces the ability to setup Amazon WorkSpaces Pools powered by Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 operating systems using Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Now, customers can bring their Windows 10 or 11 licenses (provided they meet Microsoft’s licensing requirements) to support their eligible Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, providing a consistent desktop […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports new ways to automate agent performance evaluations
You can now automatically mark a performance evaluation question as not applicable based on conversational insights (e.g., detected call reason, etc.), and you can now use additional contact metrics (e.g., longest hold duration, number of holds, agent interaction duration including holds) to automatically fill answers to questions in the evaluation form. With this launch, you […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in additional AWS region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Europe (Milan). Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. R7i instances deliver […]

AWS – Announcing Storage Browser for Amazon S3 for your web applications (alpha release)
Amazon S3 is announcing the alpha release of Storage Browser for S3, an open source component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. With Storage Browser for S3, you can provide authorized end users access to easily browse, download, and […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server supports Cross-region Snapshot Copying
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports copying database snapshots, either created automatically or manually, across commercial AWS Regions. This enables you to seamlessly move database snapshots for your RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to different Regions, which can be used to build a robust disaster recovery solution for your mission-critical data. RDS […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 1.20
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink minor version 1.20. This version is expected to be be the last 1.x minor version released by the Flink community before Flink 2.0. We recommend that you upgrade to Flink 1.20 to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the Flink […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports OEM and OLS options with Multitenant configuration
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and Oracle Label Security (OLS) option with Oracle Multitenant configuration. OEM enables monitoring and managing the Oracle infrastructure from a single console. OLS provides fine-grained control of access to individual tables or rows, and helps you enforce regulatory compliance with a policy-based administration. To enable […]
AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout
Today AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is launching a new capability that allows you to align the TCP idle timeout value of GWLB with clients and target appliances. Using this capability you can now perform uninterrupted stateful inspection and fine tuning of the applications that use long-lived flows, such as financial applications, databases and ERP […]