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AWS – Announcing extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon EKS Anywhere
Today, AWS announced extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere). With extended support for Kubernetes versions for Amazon EKS Anywhere, you continue to receive security patches for clusters on any Kubernetes version for up to 26 months after the version is released in Amazon EKS Anywhere. Extended support […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Ruby 3.4 on Amazon Linux 2023
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Ruby 3.4 applications on the Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Ruby features while benefiting from AL2023’s enhanced security and performance features. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage […]
AWS – AWS announces Microsoft 365 for Word and Outlook integrations for Amazon Q Business
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Amazon Q Business integrations for Microsoft 365 for Word and Outlook. These new integrations improve the usability and usefulness of Amazon Q Business by making its generative AI features available where business users do their work. Users can now get Amazon Q Business’ help in creating content, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Fleet added support for Block Device Mapping overrides
Starting today, EC2 Fleet customers can override the Block Device Mapping specified in the Launch Template when launching a new fleet. With this release, customers save the effort of creating and associating new Launch Templates with their fleet requests, when they need to customize the Block Device Mapping but keep rest of the instance configurations […]
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
With the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, your Kubernetes applications can access S3 objects through a file system interface, achieving high aggregate throughput without any changes to your application. Built on Mountpoint for Amazon S3, the CSI driver presents an S3 bucket as a volume accessible by containers in Amazon Elastic […]
AWS – Amazon Nova Creative Models now available in Asia Pacific
Today, we are excited to announce Amazon Nova creative models, including Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel, in Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These models are designed to generate high-quality images and videos from text and image inputs, providing customizable visual content for various applications. This expansion addresses the growing demand for automated, high-quality visual content […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now generally available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
Today, we are announcing that Amazon Q Developer is generally available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas. Amazon Q Developer provides generative AI-powered assistance throughout the machine learning (ML) lifecycle, enabling users of all skill levels to build production-ready ML models using natural language. With this release, Amazon Q Developer introduces new capabilities including support for additional […]
AWS – Announcing new features for AWS IoT Device Defender to improve IoT certificate lifecycle management
Today, AWS IoT Device Defender introduced two features to simplify IoT certificate lifecycle management – a new audit check for certificate age and enhancements to the existing device certificate expiring audit check. The new audit check for certificate age allows developers to monitor and receive alerts based on a certificate’s age, regardless of its expiration […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall simplifies policy management with enhanced console features
AWS Network Firewall now provides enhanced console capabilities that improve rule management and policy configuration workflows. Key improvements include the ability to modify the priority of rules directly from the console without needing to delete and recreate them, pre-populated fields to add descriptions and signature ID in your rules, default “Alert Established” selection for comprehensive […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild adds support for macOS 15.2
AWS CodeBuild now supports macOS 15.2 as a new major version for macOS builds. This allows developers to build and test their applications in the latest macOS environment. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. The new major version includes […]
