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AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Amazon DynamoDB Streams as a source
Today, AWS announced support for a new Apache Flink connector for Amazon DynamoDB. The new connector, contributed by AWS for the Apache Flink open source project, adds Amazon DynamoDB Streams as a new source for Apache Flink. You can now process DynamoDB streams events with Apache Flink, a popular framework and engine for processing and […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune Serverless is now available in 6 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Neptune Serverless is now available in the Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, such as knowledge graphs, […]

AWS – Amazon EBS now supports detailed performance statistics on EBS volume health
Today, Amazon announced the availability of detailed performance statistics for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes. This new capability provides you with real-time visibility into the performance of your EBS volumes, making it easier to monitor the health of your storage resources and take actions sooner. With detailed performance statistics, you can access 11 metrics […]

AWS – Announcing financing program for AWS Marketplace purchases for select US customers
Today, AWS announces the availability of a new financing program supported by PNC Vendor Finance, enabling select customers in the United States (US) to finance AWS Marketplace software purchases directly from the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. For the first time, select US customers can apply for, utilize, and manage financing within the console […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports Windows Docker builds in reserved capacity fleets
AWS CodeBuild now supports building Windows docker images in reserved capacity fleets. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. Additionally, you can bring in your own Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in reserved capacity for Linux and Windows platforms. This enables […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks expands to new regions
Today, Amazon Web Services announces that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Capacity Blocks for ML is available for P5 instances in two new regions: US West (Oregon) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). You can use EC2 Capacity Blocks to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters for a future date for the amount […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is now available in Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in Asia Pacific (Kuala Lumpur) Region to build real-time stream processing applications. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports defining machine learning model lifecycle stages
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports custom machine learning (ML) model lifecycle stages. This capability further improves model governance by enabling data scientists and ML engineers to define and control the progression of their models across various stages, from development to production. Customers use Amazon SageMaker Model Registry […]

AWS – AWS Fault Injection Service now generates experiment reports
AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) now generates reports for experiments, reducing the time and effort to produce evidence of resilience testing. The report summarizes experiment actions and captures application response from a customer-provided CloudWatch Dashboard. With AWS FIS, you can run fault injection experiments to create realistic failure conditions under which to practice your […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer Pro tier adds enhanced administrator capabilities to view user activity
The Amazon Q Developer Pro tier now offers administrators greater visibility into the activity from subscribed users. Amazon Q Developer Pro tier administrators can now view user last activity information and enable daily user activity reports. Organization administrators can now view the last activity information for each user’s subscription and applications within that subscription, enabling […]