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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
Amazon CloudWatch agent support for Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) enables monitoring of applications and infrastructure using familiar CloudWatch tools such as Container Insights and Application Signals. ROSA is a fully-managed cloud service that helps customers to quickly deploy, operate, and scale containerized applications on AWS with the same consistent OpenShift experience they […]

AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for Amazon Lightsail
AWS customers can now access Amazon Lightsail from within the AWS Console Mobile App to monitor and manage Lightsail instances, containers, databases, network, storage, snapshots, domains and DNS while on the go. Visit the Services tab in the AWS Console Mobile App and select Lightsail to get started. The AWS Console Mobile App enables AWS […]

GCP – Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA
Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Memorystore, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis and Memcached, plays an increasingly important role in our customers’ deployments — in fact, over 90% of the top 100 Google Cloud customers use Memorystore. Today, we’re excited that the […]

AWS – AWS Security Incident Response now supports integration with AWS PrivateLink
AWS announces AWS Security Incident Response with AWS PrivateLink integration, enabling customers to manage their service membership directly from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Now, together with AWS PrivateLink, customers can access AWS Security Incident Response APIs while keeping their traffic off the public internet, adding an extra layer of security when managing and […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Cases adds support for managing service level agreements on cases
Amazon Connect Cases now provides capabilities to help contact centers track and meet service level agreements (SLAs) on cases. Using the Amazon Connect UI, admins can set up SLA rules based on case attributes and configure target statuses and resolution times. Agents and managers can view the real-time SLA status directly in their case list […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge now supports Customer Managed Keys (CMK) in API destinations connections
Amazon EventBridge announces support for Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Managed Keys (CMK) in API destinations connections. This enhancement enables you to encrypt your HTTPS endpoint authentication credentials managed by API destinations with your own keys instead of an AWS owned key (which is used by default). With CMK support, you now have more […]

AWS – Introducing the Well-Architected Generative AI Lens
The AWS Well-Architected Generative AI Lens is now available, offering a guidance document to optimize generative AI workloads in the cloud. This new lens is a powerful addition to the Well-Architected Framework, designed to guide organizations through the complexities of implementing generative AI workloads. It provides structured, prescriptive guidance covering the entire generative AI lifecycle […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service supports SAML single sign-on for OpenSearch UI
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) via IAM federation for the next-generation OpenSearch UI. OpenSearch UI is a modernized operational analytics experience that enables users to gain insights cross data spanning managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. OpenSearch UI already supports authentication via AWS Identity & Access Management […]

AWS – AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance
AWS customers in Europe can now use Advance Pay, which allows them to pay for their AWS usage in advance and automate future invoice payments. With Advance Pay, customers can add funds to their account, which AWS will automatically use to pay invoices as they become due. This feature provides customers in Europe with more […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock RAG and Model Evaluations now support custom metrics
Amazon Bedrock Evaluations allows you to evaluate foundation models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, whether hosted on Amazon Bedrock or multicloud and on-prem deployments. Bedrock Evaluations offers human-based evals, programmatic evals such as BERTScore, F1 and other exact match metrics, as well as LLM-as-a-judge for both model and RAG evaluation. For both model and RAG […]