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AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI–powered assistant that reimagines your experience across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Amazon Q Developer includes unique, game-changing capabilities that allow developers to offload time-consuming, manual tasks inside or outside of AWS. Amazon Q Developer capabilities include Q&A and diagnosing common errors […]

AWS – Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue is now generally available
Today, AWS announces general availability of Amazon Q data integration, a new generative AI–powered capability of Amazon Q Developer that enables you to build data integration pipelines using natural language. Amazon Q Developer is the AWS expert to assist you with all of your development tasks. Amazon Q data integration is a new chat experience […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Lambda Insights enables you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions. Lambda Insights provides you access to automated dashboards summarizing the performance and health of your Lambda functions that provide visibility into issues such as memory leaks or performance […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14, and 12.18. These releases contain product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. These releases also offer improved performance through faster COPY operations (for PostgreSQL 16.2), Query Plan Management enhancements for queries with aggregate operations, and optimizations […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor pipeline (at edge)
We are announcing public preview Azure Monitor pipeline (for edge). With this, we are now extending our Azure Monitor pipeline capabilities from the cloud to the edge, enabling seamless and high-scale data ingestion with centralized configuration management. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Honolulu, Hawaii. You can now use Local Zones in Honolulu to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. In this new Local Zone, you can access Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic […]

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports central deployment and management of VPC NACLs with common NACL policies
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager allows customers to define policies for centrally creating, deploying and managing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Network Access Control List (NACL) rules for their VPC subnets across accounts in their AWS Organization. Additionally, NACL policies provide customers with visibility into policy adherence by reporting the compliance status for each policy. Read […]

AWS – Cohere Command R and Command R+ now available in Amazon Bedrock
You can now access Cohere’s newest state-of-the-art enterprise foundation model family, Command R+ and Command R, in Amazon Bedrock. These generative AI models are highly scalable, optimized for long context tasks like advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with citations to mitigate hallucinations, multi-step tool use to automate complex business tasks, and are multilingual in 10 languages […]

AWS – Amazon Q generative SQL (preview) is now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region
Amazon Q generative SQL in Amazon Redshift Query Editor is available for public preview in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. Amazon Q generative SQL is available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor, an out-of-the-box web-based SQL editor for Redshift, to simplify query authoring and increase your productivity by allowing you to express queries in natural language and […]
Azure – Infrastructure and quality enhancements for Azure Container Registry
ACR now supports expanded registry capacity of up to 40TiB and optimized geo-replication performance. Read More for the details.