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AWS – AWS announces UDP support for AWS PrivateLink and dual-stack Network Load Balancers
Today, we are launching support for the UDP protocol on AWS PrivateLink over IPv4 and IPv6, and on AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) over IPv6. Until now, AWS PrivateLink only supported TCP, while NLB supported UDP only over IPv4. This launch enables customers who use AWS PrivateLink and clients that use IPv6 to access UDP-based […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, which helps you scale your Amazon Aurora cluster to millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data while maintaining the simplicity of operating inside a single database. With this new capability, you can scale your relational database workloads on Aurora […]

AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now access Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet ranks among the most intelligent in the world. With Claude 3.5 Sonnet, customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now get intelligence better than Claude 3 Opus, at […]

AWS – AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit
AWS Lambda has introduced a new getting started experience to simplify the development of Lambda-based applications using the VS Code IDE and the AWS Toolkit. This experience streamlines the code-test-deploy-debug cycle, providing a guided walkthrough that assists developers from setting up their local development environment to running their first application on the cloud and adds […]

AWS – AWS Supply Chain now offers embedded Analytics powered by Amazon Quicksight
AWS Supply Chain now includes a reporting and analytics feature powered by Amazon Quicksight that enables custom reporting and analytics and provides out of the box supply chain dashboards. Customers can access their data in the AWS Supply Chain data lake simply from the embedded interface, and use out of the box dashboards that they […]

AWS – AWS WAF is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Starting today, you can use AWS WAF in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, […]

AWS – Three enhancements for SES Mail Manager to improve interoperability, security, and compliance
SES Mail Manager announces three new features. The first adds support for authenticated connections to ingress endpoints via TCP port 587 (email submission port). The second introduces verified customer identity enforcement when using Mail Manager SMTP relays, and enables customers to create rule conditions in which MIME headers can be searched and used for routing […]

GCP – Google Cloud database news roundup, October 2024 edition
Leaves are falling, temperatures are dropping, but things were heating up in the world of Google Cloud databases this October! Here’s a recap of the latest news and updates. Key databases announcements Database Center simplifies database management with a single, unified view of our customer’s entire database landscape. This month we launched two exciting features […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports rolling upgrades for Operating System upgrades
Amazon Aurora announced rolling upgrades support for Operating System (OS) upgrades. Aurora now seamlessly upgrades the OS version of Aurora database clusters while maintaining read access to the data when using Aurora cluster or reader endpoint. The feature automatically applies upgrades to a few reader instances at a time so the database can continue serving […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports User-Defined Types
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that offers 99.999% availability. Today, Amazon Keyspaces added support for Cassandra’s User Defined Type (UDT). With support for UDTs, you can continue using any custom data types that are defined in your Cassandra workloads in Keyspaces, without […]