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AWS – Amazon EC2 C7g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g instances are available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Africa (Cape Town), and AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-Code
Amazon DynamoDB is announcing the support of Console-to-Code, powered by Amazon Q Developer. Console-to-Code makes it simple, fast, and cost-effective to create DynamoDB resources at scale by getting you started with your automation code. DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Customers use the DynamoDB console to learn […]
AWS – AWS Outposts racks now support new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
We’re excited to announce the general availability of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for AWS Outposts racks: VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState. These metrics provide you with greater visibility into the connectivity status of your Outposts racks’ Local Gateway (LGW) and Service Link Virtual Interfaces (VIFs) with your on-premises devices. These metrics provide you with the ability […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports Cumulative Update CU20 for Microsoft SQL Server 2022, and General Distribution Releases for Microsoft SQL Server 2016, 2017 and 2019.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Cumulative Update CU20 for SQL Server 2022 (RDS version 16.00.4205.1.v1), and General Distribution Releases (GDR) for SQL Server 2016 SP3 (RDS version 13.00.6460.7.v1), SQL Server 2017 (RDS version 14.00.3495.9.v1) and SQL Server 2019 (RDS version 15.00.4435.7.v1). The new CU20 and GDR releases address the […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i and M7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. M7i-flex […]
AWS – AWS Console Mobile App now offers access to AWS Support
AWS customers can now view and manage their support cases from the AWS Console Mobile App. Customers can view and reply to case correspondence, and resolve, reopen, or create support cases while on the go and away from their workstations. Visit the Services tab and select “Support” to get started. The AWS Console Mobile App […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in five additional AWS Regions
With this launch, Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports connectivity to Apache Impala
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of a native Apache Impala connector. Apache Impala is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL query engine that runs natively on Apache Hadoop. QuickSight customers can now connect using their username password credentials for Impala and import their data into SPICE. Apache Impala connector for Amazon QuickSight […]
GCP – Immutable, Air-Gapped, and Integrated: Data Protection for your Cloud SQL instances just got better
In a world where data is your most valuable asset, protecting it isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s a necessity. That’s why we are thrilled to announce a significant leap forward in protecting the data in your Cloud SQL instances, with Enhanced Backups for Cloud SQL. This powerful new capability integrates Google Cloud Backup and […]
GCP – BigQuery under the hood: Short query optimizations in the advanced runtime
In a prior blog post, we introduced BigQuery’s advanced runtime, where we detailed enhanced vectorization and discussed techniques like dictionary and run-length encoded data, vectorized filter evaluation and compute pushdown, and parallelizable execution. This blog post dives into short query optimizations, a key component of BigQuery’s advanced runtime. These optimizations can significantly speed up the […]