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GCP – Paramount+: A streaming powerhouse with limitless entertainment
Paramount+ is a treasure trove of streaming entertainment for a global audience. With a click, swipe, or voice command, viewers have instant access to iconic films like “The Godfather” and “Top Gun”, television classics like “Star Trek” and “Survivor,” and modern hits like “Yellowstone,” “1883,” and “Halo.” In addition to its immense library of filmed […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito introduces tiered pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) usage
Amazon Cognito introduces pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication to better support continued growth and expand capabilities. There is no change to Amazon Cognito’s user based pricing (monthly active users or MAUs). Customer accounts currently using Amazon Cognito for M2M use cases will be exempt from pricing for 12 months. M2M pricing is based on the […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.12
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.12.13, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. Starting from RabbitMQ 3.12.13, all Classic Queues on Amazon MQ brokers are upgraded to Classic Queues version 2 (CQv2) automatically. All queues on RabbitMQ 3.12 now behave similarly to lazy […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19. This release of RDS for PostgreSQL also includes support for pgvector 0.7.0, which lets you index vectors larger than 2,000 dimensions and adds support for scalar and binary quantization through expression indexes. The PostgreSQL community […]
AWS – Amazon ECR adds pull through cache support for GitLab.com
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes GitLab Container Registry as a supported upstream registry for ECR’s pull through cache feature. With today’s release, customers using GitLab’s software-as-a-subscription offering, GitLab.com, can automatically sync images from the newly supported upstream registry to their private ECR repositories. ECR customers can create a pull through cache rule that […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches SPICE capacity auto-purchase API
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of SPICE capacity auto-purchase API. Previously, customers were required to manually turn on SPICE auto-purchase via the console UI. Now with this API enhancement, QuickSight users can programmatically turn on the SPICE capacity auto-purchase, seamlessly integrating it into their adoption and migration pipeline. Once turned on, users […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, now in new regions
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps. Read More for the details.
Azure – GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes. Read More for the details.