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AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports system-rollback
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink introduces the system-rollback feature to automatically revert your application to the previous running application version during Flink job submission if there are code or configuration errors. You can now opt-in to this feature for improved application uptime. You may encounter errors such as insufficient permissions, incompatible savepoints, and other […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal autoshift available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller (Route 53 ARC) zonal autoshift is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. AWS customers and AWS Partners who operate in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now use zonal autoshift, a feature you can enable to safely and automatically shift an application’s traffic away […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds supports to ingest streaming data from Confluent Cloud
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to seamlessly ingest streaming data from Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters into your Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or Serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to perform near-real-time aggregations, sampling and anomaly detection on data ingested […]

AWS – Amazon Athena Provisioned Capacity now available in South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Spain)
Today, Amazon Athena made Provisioned Capacity available in the South America (São Paulo) and Europe (Spain) regions. Provisioned Capacity is a feature of Athena that allows you to run SQL queries on fully-managed, dedicated serverless resources for a fixed price and no long-term commitments. Using Provisioned Capacity, you can selectively assign processing capacity to queries […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless with lower base capacity available in additional regions
Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the AWS Europe (Stockholm) and US West (Northern California) regions. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads […]

AWS – Amazon Linux announces availability of AL2023.5 with new versions of PHP and Microsoft .NET
Today are announcing the availability of the latest quarterly update to AL2023 containing the latest version of PHP and .NET, along with IPA Client and mod-php. Customers can take advantage of newer versions of PHP and .NET to ensure their applications are secure and efficient. Additionally, AL2023.5 includes packages like mod-php and IPA client that […]

AWS – EventBridge Scheduler adds more universal targets including Amazon Bedrock
EventBridge Scheduler adds additional universal targets with 650+ more AWS API actions bringing the total to 7000+, including Amazon Bedrock. EventBridge Scheduler allows you to create and run millions of scheduled events and tasks across AWS services without provisioning or managing the underlying infrastructure. EventBridge Scheduler supports one time and recurring schedules that can be […]

AWS – AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support for AWS CloudShell. This allows you to create CloudShell environments in a VPC, which enables you to use CloudShell securely within the same subnet as other resources in your VPC without the need for additional network configuration. Prior to this release, there […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account level subscription filter in 4 additional regions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce support for creating account-level subscription filters using the put-account-policy API in 4 additional regions. This new capability enables you to deliver real-time log events that are ingested into Amazon CloudWatch Logs to an Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or AWS Lambda for custom processing, analysis, […]
GCP – New Cloud KMS Autokey can help encrypt your resources quickly and efficiently
Encryption is a fundamental control for data security, sovereignty, and privacy in the cloud. While Google Cloud provides default encryption for customer data at rest, many organizations want greater control over their encryption keys that control access to their data. Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) can help you by providing flexibility in cryptographic key creation, rotation, […]