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AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector adds Java Gradle support and expands ecosystem coverage
Amazon Inspector scanning for Lambda functions and Elastic Container Registry (ECR) images now supports Java Gradle inventory and vulnerability scanning. This release also adds coverage for MySQL, MariaDB, PHP, Jenkins-core, 7zip (on Windows), Elasticsearch, and Curl/LibCurl. This update enhances Amazon Inspector’s ability to detect vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across a broader range of applications and environments. […]
AWS – Announcing larger managed database bundles for Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail now offers two larger database bundles with up to 8 vCPUs, 32GB memory, and 960GB SSD storage. The new database bundles are available in both standard and high-availability plans. You can create MySQL and PostgreSQL databases using the new Lightsail managed database bundles. The new larger database bundles enable you to scale your […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless adds support for job run level cost allocation
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports job run-level cost allocation that provides better visibility into charges for individual job runs by allowing you to configure granular billing attribution at the individual job run level. You can get granular cost visibility by filtering and tracking costs in AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports by specific […]
GCP – How Hackensack Meridian Health de-risked network migration using VPC Flow Logs
Network administrators rely heavily on VPC Flow Logs for visibility into their network traffic. Last year, we updated VPC Flow Logs to offer expanded network traffic visibility, extending beyond subnets to include VLAN attachments and VPN tunnels. This enhancement provides comprehensive monitoring of network traffic across your on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Now, with VPC Flow […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports cross-region read replica in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports setting up cross-region read replicas in 16 additional AWS Regions. Cross-region read replicas enable customers to provide a replica database for read-only applications closer to users in a different region, and scale out read-only workloads. Since a read replica can be “promoted” to a […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports certificate based authentication with mutual TLS for RabbitMQ brokers
Amazon MQ now supports the ability for RabbitMQ brokers to perform authentication (determining who can log in) using X.509 client certificates with mutual TLS (mTLS). The RabbitMQ auth_mechanism_ssl plugin can be configured on brokers running RabbitMQ version 4.2 and above on Amazon MQ by making changes to the associated configuration file. To start using certificate […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB. Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Quick adds third-party AI agents and expands built-in actions library
Amazon Quick is expanding its third-party integrations by adding AI agents and growing its built-in actions library. Quick is Amazon’s new AI-powered workspace and agentic teammate that helps organizations get answers from their business data and move quickly from insights to action. As organizations navigate newly adopted AI agents and work with existing enterprise tools […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M8i instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i offer up to 15% better price-performance, and […]