Starting today, RDS Custom for SQL Server database instance creation is simplified with single-click creation and attachment of an instance profile. You can choose “Create a new instance profile” and provide an instance profile name for Create database, Restore snapshot, and Restore to Point-in-time options within RDS Management Console. RDS Management Console will automatically generate […]

Beginning today, customers in the Europe (Frankfurt) region can access Claude 3 Sonnet and Haiku in Amazon Bedrock to easily build and scale generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and other FMs from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, […]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.7 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka version 3.7 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key improvements include latency improvements resulting from leader discovery optimizations during leadership changes, as well as log segment flush optimization options. For […]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports KRaft mode (Apache Kafka Raft) in Apache Kafka version 3.7. The Apache Kafka community developed KRaft to replace Apache ZooKeeper for metadata management in Apache Kafka clusters. In KRaft mode, cluster metadata is propagated within a group of Kafka controllers, which are part of the […]

Everyone can build, use, and share generative AI powered apps for fun and for boosting personal productivity using PartyRock. PartyRock uses foundation models from Amazon Bedrock to turn your ideas into working PartyRock apps. PartyRock apps are composed of UI elements called widgets. Widgets display content, accept input, connect with other widgets, and generate outputs […]

Amazon Web Services is announcing general availability for Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances, the first DDR5 memory based 8-socket offering by a leading cloud provider, offering up to 32TiB of memory and 896 vCPUs. Powered by 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7i instances have twice as many vCPUs, delivering more than […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys are now available in six additional AWS Regions. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency, automated failovers, and more read capacity. In addition, this deployment option supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance […]