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GCP – Maximize BigQuery performance with enhanced workload management
BigQuery provides a powerful platform for analyzing large-scale datasets with high performance. However, as data volumes and query complexity increase, maintaining operational efficiency is essential. BigQuery workload management provides comprehensive control mechanisms to optimize workloads and resource allocation, preventing performance issues and resource contention, especially in high-volume environments. And today, we’re excited to announce several […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall launches new monitoring dashboard
Today, AWS announces the launch of a new monitoring dashboard in the AWS Network Firewall console, enhancing customers ability to monitor their network traffic. This new feature provides visibility into network activities, allowing for more effective management and troubleshooting of firewall configurations. The new dashboard offers valuable insights into traffic patterns, including top traffic flows, […]
AWS – ENA Express supports 120 new instances
120 EC2 instances now support ENA Express, including network optimized, storage, high-memory, and accelerated computing. With this launch, ENA Express is adding support for 35 network optimized instances, 6 storage instances, 7 high-memory instances, and 5 accelerated computing instances. Additionally, ENA Express has added support for 67 different compute, general purpose, and memory optimized EC2 […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support versions R2 11.22-rds.20250220 and 12.22-rds.20250220
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL introduces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20250508 and 12.22-rds.20250508, which include important security updates and bug fixes for PostgreSQL databases.. We recommend upgrading your RDS instances to these latest versions to maintain optimal security and performance of your PostgreSQL deployments. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, […]
AWS – Amazon EKS add-ons now supports Private CA Connector for Kubernetes
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Private CA Connector for Kubernetes Amazon EKS add-on. This new integration allows customers to easily issue certificates from AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to their Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The add-on installs and manages the Private CA Connector for Kubernetes. […]
AWS – Amazon Lex extends custom vocabulary feature to additional languages
Amazon Lex now extends custom vocabulary support to multiple languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, and Spanish locales. This enhancement enables you to improve speech recognition accuracy for domain-specific terminology, proper nouns, and rare words across a wider range of languages, creating more natural and accurate conversational experiences. With custom vocabulary, you […]
AWS – AWS Resource Groups adds support AWS PrivateLink
AWS Resource Group APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke AWS Resource Group APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. AWS Resource Groups enables you to model, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources by using tags to logically group your […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region
Starting today, the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region. C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances. C7a instances offer new processor capabilities such as AVX-512, VNNI, […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports increased concurrency for vacuum operations
Amazon Redshift has enhanced its vacuum operations to support increased concurrency across different tables in data warehouses. This feature reduces maintenance time and improves resource utilization by allowing multiple vacuum operations to run simultaneously. Vacuum operations maintain optimal query performance by performing two critical functions: sorting table data and reclaiming disk space from deleted rows. […]
AWS – AWS Resource Groups now supports IPv6
AWS Resource Group APIs now supports IPv6 for dual stack subnets so you can filter IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows to and from the public internet, on-premises network, or any endpoint in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). AWS Resource Groups enables you to model, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources […]