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GCP – The oracles of DeFi: How to build trustworthy data feeds for decentralized applications
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) emerged with Bitcoin as a censorship-resistant way to conduct payments between distrusting peers. After a period, traditional financial institutions began to explore the technology, recognizing the potential of its immutability, decentralization, and programmability to redesign financial instruments and workflows. However, a foundational issue has stalled many enterprise blockchain projects at the […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Streams adds IPv6 support for streaming Windows applications
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports streaming over IPv6 for applications running on Windows-based stream groups, enabling dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) streaming capabilities. This enhancement gives our customers flexibility in how they connect to their streamed Windows applications while maintaining compatibility with existing IPv4 implementations. When streaming applications running on Windows-based stream groups through Amazon GameLift Streams, customers […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports IPv6 with dual-stack endpoints
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) through new dual-stack endpoints that enable both IPv6 and IPv4 connectivity. This enhancement provides customers with a vastly expanded address space while maintaining compatibility with existing IPv4-based applications. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database […]
AWS – Announcing Apache Airflow 3.0 support in Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 3.0, the latest major release of the workflow orchestration platform. This release enhances your ability to author, schedule, and monitor complex workflows with greater efficiency and control. Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that enables seamless workflow orchestration using the […]
GCP – Gemini CLI extension for PostgreSQL in action: Build a fuzzy search feature in minutes
Adding features to an app can be hard. One minute you’re writing code, the next you’re switching to the PostgreSQL database client to run a query, and then it’s over to the console to check on your instances. For example, let’s say you wanted to add search capabilities. This can mean adding the right extensions […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides agent time-off balance data in analytics data lake
Amazon Connect now provides agent time-off balance data in analytics data lake, making it easier for you to generate reports and insights from this data. With this launch, you can now access latest and historical agent time-off balances across different time-off categories (paid time-off, sick leave, leave of absence, etc.) in the analytics data lake. […]
AWS – AWS Knowledge MCP Server now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability (GA) of the AWS Knowledge Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. The AWS Knowledge server gives AI agents and MCP clients access to authoritative knowledge, including documentation, blog posts, What’s New announcements, and Well-Architected best practices, in an LLM-compatible format. With this release, the server also includes knowledge about the […]
AWS – AWS API MCP Server v1.0.0 release
Today, AWS announces the v1.0.0 release of the AWS API model context protocol (MCP) server enabling foundation models (FMs) to interact with any AWS API through natural language by creating and executing syntactically correct CLI commands. The v1.0.0 release of the AWS API MCP Server contains many enhancements that make the server easier to configure, […]
AWS – Amazon Detective now supports AWS PrivateLink for private API access
Amazon Detective now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to securely initiate API calls to Detective from within your VPC without requiring Internet traversal. AWS PrivateLink support for Detective is available in all AWS Regions where Detective is available (see the AWS Region table). To try the new feature, […]
AWS – Application map is now generally available for Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch now helps you monitor large-scale distributed applications by automatically discovering and organizing services into groups based on configurations and their relationships. SREs and DevOps teams can identify critical dependencies and blast radius impacts to remediate issues faster. You get an always-on, out-of-the-box catalog and map that visualizes services and dependencies across AWS accounts […]