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AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 99 new Amazon EC2 instance types
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 99 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. These enhancements help you identify additional savings opportunities across your EC2 instances without specialized knowledge or manual analysis. Compute Optimizer has expanded support to include the latest generation Compute Optimized (C8gn, C8gd), General Purpose (M8i, M8i-flex, M8gd), Memory Optimized (R8i, […]
AWS – Amazon EBS increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) now supports higher volume-level limits for its General Purpose (gp3) volumes. With this update, gp3 volumes can scale up to 64 TiB in size (4X the previous 16 TiB limit), up to 80,000 IOPS (5X the previous 16,000 IOPS limit), and up to 2,000 MiB/s throughput (2X the previous […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Db2 now offers Reserved Instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Db2 now offers Reserved Instances with up to 47% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. The option to use Reserved Instances is available for all supported instance types. Amazon RDS for Db2 Reserved Instances provide size flexibility for both Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Db2 license purchased through […]
AWS – AWS WAF Targeted Bot Control, Fraud & DDoS Prevention Rule Group available in 3 more regions
Starting today, AWS WAF’s Targeted Bot Control, Fraud, and DDoS Prevention Rule Group are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central) regions. These features help customers to stay protected against sophisticated bots, application layer DDoS and account takeover attacks. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, Browser, and Code Interpreter add support for VPC, AWS PrivateLink, CloudFormation, and tagging
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, Browser, and Code Interpreter services now support Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connectivity, AWS PrivateLink, AWS CloudFormation, and resource tagging, enabling developers to deploy AI agents with enhanced enterprise security and infrastructure automation capabilities. AgentCore Runtime enables you to deploy and scale dynamic AI agents securely using any framework, protocol, or […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Milan) and AWS US West (N. California)
AWS is announcing the availability of high performance Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in AWS Europe (Milan) and US West (N. California) regions. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 10 additional AWS regions
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), Mexico (Central) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. With the Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling feature, you can now support thousands of concurrent […]
GCP – Accelerating cloud migrations to Google Cloud with Searce to drive profitable growth
As companies transition past legacy infrastructure and set themselves up for growth in AI, multi-cloud, and platform engineering requirements, many are looking to Google Cloud for its reliability, performance, and cost benefits. To achieve successful migrations, especially at the enterprise level, organizations need a seasoned partner with a deep understanding of platform modernization, automation, and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore). The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall enhances application layer traffic controls
AWS Network Firewall, a managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for your Amazon VPCs, now provides enhanced default rules to handle TLS client hellos, and HTTP requests split across multiple packets. This update introduces new application layer drop and alert established default stateful actions, enabling customers to maintain security controls […]