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AWS – Colombian Sellers and Channel Partners now available in AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace now enables customers to discover and subscribe to software from Colombia Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners. This expansion serves to increase the breadth of software and data offerings, adding to the 20,000+ software listings and data products from 5000+ sellers. Starting today, AWS Marketplace customers around the world can directly procure […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R7g instances are now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Minor Versions in November 2024
New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer now provides natural language cost analysis
Today, AWS announces the addition of cost analysis capabilities to Amazon Q Developer, allowing customers to retrieve and interpret their AWS cost data through natural language interactions. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant that helps customers build, deploy, and operate applications on AWS. The cost analysis capability helps users of all skill levels […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall expands the list of supported protocols and keywords in firewall rules
Today, we are excited to announce support for new protocols in AWS Network Firewall so you can protect your Amazon VPCs using application-specific inspection rules. With this launch, AWS Network Firewall will detect protocols like HTTP2, QUIC, and PostgreSQL so you can apply firewall inspection rules to these protocols. You can also use new rule […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing is now generally available
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Redshift multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing. You can now start writing to Amazon Redshift databases from multiple Amazon Redshift data warehouses in just a few clicks. The written data is available to all Amazon Redshift warehouses as soon as it is committed. This allows your teams to […]
AWS – Amazon ECR announces 10x increase in repository limit to 100,000
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports a 10x increase in the default limit for repositories per region per account to 100,000, up from the previous limit of 10,000. This change better aligns with your growth needs and saves you time from not having to request limit increases till 100,000 repositories. You still have the […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports prompted reports and reader scheduling for pixel-perfect reports
We are enabling Amazon QuickSight readers to generate filtered views of pixel-perfect reports and create schedules to deliver reports via email. Readers can create up to five schedules per dashboard for themselves. Previously, only dashboard owners could create schedules and only on the default (author published) view of the dashboard. Now, if an author has […]
GCP – Celebrate Small Business Saturday with ChromeOS
Saturday, November 30, 2024, is Small Business Saturday, a day where we celebrate and support small businesses and their impact on our economy and local communities. Like many small businesses, Google was built in a garage with the spirit of doing things differently.1 We are committed to providing tools and services that support local small […]