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AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports up to 256 ACUs
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports database capacity of up to 256 Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs). Aurora Serverless v2 measures capacity in ACUs where each ACU is a combination of approximately 2 gibibytes (GiB) of memory, corresponding CPU, and networking. You specify the capacity range and the database scales within this range to support your […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service is now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon Location Service in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Location Service is a location-based service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, search places and geocodes, plan routes, and enable device tracking and geofencing capabilities into their applications. With Amazon Location Service, developers can start a […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business is now HIPAA eligible
Amazon Q Business is now HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) eligible. Amazon Q Business is a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With the Amazon Q Business HIPAA certification, healthcare and life sciences organizations such […]
GCP – Bringing the best of Google Cloud to the Public Sector
Over the past year, the pace of innovation across industries and around the world has been extraordinary. At Google, we’re inspired by the public sector’s ingenuity and speed in adopting our AI and security innovations to achieve remarkable outcomes together. Since Google Cloud Next, we’ve launched more powerful versions of Gemini, rolled out Gemini Flash […]
GCP – AlloyDB supercharges PostgreSQL vector search with accuracy, speed, and 1B+ scale
In our 20 years of experience integrating AI into real-world applications an important theme emerges: the key to building enterprise gen AI applications is having a trustworthy, scalable data foundation that supports the scale and performance needs of the largest workloads. When you’re building a gen AI or search application, you need high-quality results in […]
GCP – Introducing Valkey 8.0 on Memorystore: unmatched performance and fully open-source
Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Today, we’re thrilled to announce Valkey 8.0 on Memorystore in preview, making Google Cloud the first major cloud platform to offer Valkey 8.0 as a fully managed service. Building upon the launch of Memorystore for Valkey 7.2 in August 2024, […]
AWS – Printer redirection and user selected regional settings now available on Amazon AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets
Amazon AppStream 2.0 is helping enhance the end-user experience by introducing support for local printer redirection and user-selected regional settings on multi-session fleets. While these features were already available on single-session fleets, this launch extends these functionalities to multi-session fleets, helping administrators to leverage the cost benefits of the multi-session model while providing an enhanced […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables automatic time zone redirection for enhanced user experience
Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows end users to enable automatic time zone redirection for application and desktop streaming sessions. With this new capability, AppStream 2.0 streaming sessions will automatically adjust to match the time zone setting of the end user’s client device. While end users can still manually configure regional preferences like time zone, language […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports BYOIP and BYOASN in all AWS Local Zones
Starting today, Amazon VPC supports two key public IP address management features, Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) and Bring-Your-Own-ASN (BYOASN), in all AWS Local Zones. If your applications use trusted IP addresses and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) that your customers or partners have allowed in their networks, you can run these applications in AWS Local Zones without requiring […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for their new and existing workspaces. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running and operating their Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Amazon Managed […]