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Azure – General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider
Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) I/O-Optimized, a new storage configuration for database clusters that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized offers improved performance, increasing write throughput and reducing latency for customers’ most demanding workloads. With Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized, […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces CloudFront KeyValueStore, a globally managed key value datastore
Amazon CloudFront announces general availability of CloudFront KeyValueStore, a global, low-latency, key value datastore. KeyValueStore allows you to retrieve key value data from within CloudFront Functions making functions more customizable by allowing independent data updates. The key value data is available across all CloudFront edge locations and provides a highly efficient, in-memory, key-value store with […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight supports SPICE capacity auto-purchase
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of SPICE capacity auto-purchase feature, offering an improved solution for the automatic management of SPICE capacity. Previously, customers had to manually purchase SPICE capacity, and insufficient capacity could lead to data ingestion failures, hindering the intended use of QuickSight. Now, customers can effortlessly opt in to the […]

AWS – Amazon S3 server access logging now supports automatic date-based partitioning
Amazon S3 server access logging now supports automatic date-based partitioning for log delivery. Amazon S3 server access logging provides detailed records for requests made to your S3 buckets including object size, total time, turn-around time, HTTP referer, and more. Now, with date-based partitioning, Amazon S3 automatically generates either event time or delivery time prefixes when […]

AWS – AWS Amplify launches next generation of backend building capabilities
Today, AWS Amplify announces a public preview of its code-first developer experience (Gen 2), enabling developers to build full-stack apps using TypeScript. Gen 2 shifts to a code-first approach that allows developers to express app requirements – data model, business logic, authorization rules – in TypeScript. The necessary cloud infrastructure is automatically deployed based on […]

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB now supports no-code machine learning with Amazon SageMaker Canvas
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now integrates with Amazon SageMaker Canvas to enable no-code Machine learning (ML) with data stored in Amazon DocumentDB. Customers can now build ML models for regression and forecasting needs and use foundation models for content summarization and generation using data stored in Amazon DocumentDB without writing a single line of […]

AWS – Apache Flink is now generally available for Amazon EMR on EKS
Today, we are excited to announce that Apache Flink is now generally available for Amazon EMR on EKS. With Apache Flink for Amazon EMR on EKS, customers can transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink, an open-source framework for stateful computations over data streams. Amazon EMR on EKS is a deployment […]

AWS – Amazon Elastic Block Store announces io2 Block Express volumes available on all EC2 Nitro instances
Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) announced that io2 Block Express volumes are available on all EC2 instances built on the Nitro system. All new io2 volumes used with EC2 Nitro instances will automatically benefit from the latest generation of EBS storage server architecture designed to deliver consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. With a […]
AWS – AWS Lake Formation data filters now support permissions on nested data
AWS Lake Formation now allows customers to apply permissions on subfields of their nested tables using data filters. Permissions can be granted on more granular fields such as on particular columns inside of structs. Permissions on nested fields provide customers more fine grained permissions to better match their business needs with greater flexibility to how […]