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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2024 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker announces Knowledge Graph optimization for efficient entity-metadata query capabilities
AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Today, AWS announced enhancements to AWS IoT TwinMaker Knowledge Graph that enable faster and more flexible entity metadata query capabilities for industrial customers. These optimizations provide faster entity-metadata queries using full-text search and […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides support for PII redaction in Spanish
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now provides support for personally identifiable information (PII) redaction in the Spanish (US) language, enabling contact centers to help identify and redact sensitive information on contact transcripts such as social security numbers, credit card details, bank account information, and personal contact information (i.e. name, email address, phone number, and mailing address). […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now available in the two additional AWS regions
Starting today, you can use Amazon EMR Studio in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions to run interactive workloads on EMR. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify Gen 2 is now generally available
AWS Amplify Gen 2, the code-first developer experience for building full-stack apps using TypeScript, is now generally available. Amplify Gen 2 enables developers to express app requirements like the data models, business logic, and authorization rules in TypeScript. The necessary cloud infrastructure is then automatically provisioned, without needing explicit infrastructure definitions. This streamlined approach accelerates […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless announces detailed performance monitoring of Apache Spark jobs with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce detailed performance monitoring of Apache Spark jobs with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, allowing […]