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AWS – Amazon SQS increases in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K
Amazon SQS increases the in-flight limit for FIFO queues from 20K to 120K messages. When a message is sent to an SQS FIFO queue, it is added to the queue backlog. Once you invoke a receive request on the FIFO queue, the message is now marked as in-flight and remains in-flight until a delete message […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. You are able […]
AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in 34 regions. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Amazon MQ reduces your operational responsibilities […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Ruby 3.3
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to deploy and manage applications in AWS without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Ruby 3.3 on AL2023 adds support for a new parser, a new pure-Ruby just-in-time compiler and several performance improvements. You can create Elastic Beanstalk environment(s) running Ruby 3.3 on […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Custom Plugins
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces Custom Plugins, a new plugin management option that allows you to extend OpenSearch functionality and deliver personalized experiences for applications such as website search, log analytics, application monitoring and, observability. OpenSearch provides a rich set of search and analysis capabilities, and with custom plugins, you can extend these further to meet […]
AWS – Introducing an AWS Management Console Visual Update (Preview)
Now available in Preview, the visual update in the AWS Management Console helps customers scan content, focus on the key information, and find what they are looking for more effectively, while preserving the familiar and consistent experience. The new, modern layout also provides easy access to contextual tools. Customers now benefit from optimized information density […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports pgvector 0.8.0
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports pgvector 0.8.0, an open-source extension for PostgreSQL for storing and efficiently querying vector embeddings in your database, letting you use retrieval-augemented generation (RAG) when building your generative AI applications. pgvector 0.8.0 release includes improvements on PostgreSQL query planner’s selection of index when filters are present, which […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs launches the ability to transform and enrich logs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces log transformation and enrichment to improve log analytics at scale with consistent, and context-rich format. Customers can add structure to their logs using pre-configured templates for common AWS services such as AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), Route53, or build custom transformers with native parsers such as Grok. Customers can also rename […]
GCP – Announcing Mistral AI’s Large-Instruct-2411 on Vertex AI
In July, we announced the availability of Mistral AI’s models on Vertex AI: Codestral for code generation tasks, Mistral Large 2 for high-complexity tasks, and the lightweight Mistral Nemo for reasoning tasks like creative writing. Today, we’re announcing the availability of Mistral AI’s newest model on Vertex AI Model Garden: Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411 is now generally available […]
GCP – Make IAM for GKE easier to use with Workload Identity Federation
At Google Cloud, we work to continually improve our platform’s security capabilities to deliver the most trusted cloud. As part of this goal, we’re helping our users move away from less secure authentication methods such as long-lived, unauditable, service account keys towards more secure alternatives when authenticating to Google Cloud APIs and services. In the […]