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AWS – Announcing enhanced purchase order support for AWS Marketplace
Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order number support to products with pay-as-you-go pricing, including Amazon Bedrock subscriptions, software as a service (SaaS) contracts with consumption pricing, and AMI annuals. Additionally, you can update purchase order numbers post-subscription prior to invoice creation to ensure your invoices reflect the proper purchase order. This launch helps […]
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now supports a high performance shared cache
You can now use Amazon S3 Express One Zone as a high performance read cache with Mountpoint for Amazon S3. The cache can be shared by multiple compute instances and can elastically scale to any dataset size. Mountpoint for S3 is a file client that translates local file system API calls to REST API calls […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IPAM now supports enabling IPAM for organizational units within AWS Organizations
Today, AWS announced the ability for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) to be enabled and used for specific organizational units (OUs) within AWS Organizations. This allows you to enable IPAM for specific types of workloads, such as production workloads, or for specific business subsidiaries, that are grouped as OUs in your organization. VPC IPAM […]
AWS – AWS announces Media Quality-Aware Resiliency for live streaming
Starting today, you can enable Media Quality-Aware Resiliency (MQAR), an integrated capability between Amazon CloudFront and AWS Media Services that provides dynamic, cross-region origin selection and failover based on a dynamically generated video quality score. Built for customers that need always-on ‘eyes-on-glass’ to deliver live events and 24/7 programming channels, MQAR automatically switches between regions […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now provides lineage information for your AMIs
Amazon EC2 now provides source details for your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). With this lineage information, you can easily trace any copied or derived AMI back to their original AMI source. Prior to today, you had to maintain a list of AMIs, use tags, and create custom scripts to track the origins of an AMI. […]
AWS – AWS DMS now delivers improved performance for data validation
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has enhanced data validation performance for database migrations, enabling customers to validate large datasets with significantly faster processing times. This enhanced data validation is now available in version 3.5.4 of the replication engine for both full load and full load with CDC migration tasks. Currently, this enhancement supports migration […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace announces improved offer and agreement management capabilities for sellers
AWS Marketplace now offers improved capabilities to help sellers manage agreements and create new offers more efficiently. Sellers can access an improved agreements navigation experience, export details to PDF, and clone past private offers in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. The new agreements experience makes it easier to find agreements for a specific offer or […]
AWS – Amazon MWAA adds smaller environment size
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now offers a micro environment size, giving customers of the managed service the ability to create multiple, independent environments for development and data isolation at a lower cost. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments Green storage fully performant prior to switchover
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Blue/Green Deployments now support managed initialization of Green storage volumes that accelerates the loading of storage blocks from Amazon S3. This ensures that the volumes are fully performant prior to switchover of the Green databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment, or Green database, by restoring the […]