Today, AWS Lake Formation announces the general availability of Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog. This feature provides you the flexibility to selectively enable Lake Formation for databases and tables in your AWS Glue Data Catalog. Before this launch, you had to move all existing users of a table into Lake Formation in […]

AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. By removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting, customers can generate deeper insights from omics data to improve health and […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton processors, which are custom Arm-based processors designed by AWS. Read More for the details.

Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of incremental export to S3, that allows you to export only the data that has changed within a specified time interval. With incremental exports, you can now export data that was inserted, updated or deleted, in small increments. You can export changed data ranging from a few megabytes […]

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports a new permission to provide agents with access to only the contacts that they handled, within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect has permissions that enable contact center managers to access contacts handled by agents in their teams and evaluate agent performance. With […]

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that helps data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. We are happy to announce that starting today, you can set default configurations at the application level, allowing you to […]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.5.1 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 3.5.1 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Key features include the introduction of new rack-aware partition assignment for consumers. Amazon MSK will continue to use and manage Zookeeper for quorum […]

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in four additional AWS Regions – Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Israel (Tel Aviv), expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-eight.  Read More for the details.