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GCP – Cut through the noise with new log scopes for Cloud Observability
Do you struggle to find the right data amidst all the data in your observability tools? This can make it hard to focus on what matters for your role. Today, we are excited to introduce log scopes for Cloud Logging – a major advancement in how you manage and analyze your organization’s logs. Log scopes […]

GCP – Google Cloud helps manufacturers bridge IT and OT data with Manufacturing Data Engine and Cortex Framework
Connecting operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) has long been a goal for manufacturers to drive greater insights across their operations. Today, at the International Manufacturing Technology Show, Google Cloud is announcing an update to our Manufacturing Data Engine (MDE) to help bridge this divide and deliver greater productivity, innovation, and profitability to the […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
Starting today, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams supports adding a VPC endpoint using AWS PrivateLink that connects through the regional endpoint that has been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. With this new launch, you can easily use AWS PrivateLink with Kinesis Data Streams for those regulated workloads that require a secure […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows you to bring your own licensed SQL Server media and have access to the underlying operating system and database environment. This service is now available in the AWS Regions of US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Europe (Paris). By using […]

AWS – CloudWatch Application Signals now supports request based Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
CloudWatch Application Signals, which helps troubleshoot issues quickly by providing out-of-the-box dashboards that correlate telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs for your applications and their dependencies, now supports Service Level Objectives (SLOs) calculated based on the request count i.e. the fraction of good or bad requests of the total operations performed by any service. This […]

AWS – Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in the Canada, London and Paris AWS regions
You can now use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the Canada (Central), Europe (London) and Europe (Paris) AWS regions. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on AWS for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. To migrate to Timestream for InfluxDB from a self-managed […]

AWS – Amazon ECS now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports AWS Graviton-based compute with AWS Fargate Spot. This capability helps you run fault-tolerant Arm-based applications with up to 70% discount compared to Fargate prices. AWS Graviton processors are custom-built by AWS to deliver the best price-performance for cloud workloads. Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate enables customers to […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minors 10.11.9, 10.6.19, 10.5.26
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.11.9, 10.6.19, and 10.5.26. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You […]

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 […]