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AWS – Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 now generally available
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces Natural Language Query Generation for log analysis
Amazon OpenSearch Service has added support for AI powered Natural Language Query Generation in OpenSearch Dashboards Log Explorer. With Natural Language Query Generation, you can accelerate analysis by asking log exploration questions in plain English, which are then automatically translated to the relevant Piped Processing Language (PPL) queries and executed to fetch the requested data. […]

AWS – AWS Partner Central now supports multi-factor authentication
AWS Partner Central now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) capabilities at login. Users will be prompted to enter a one-time passcode sent to their registered e-mail address along with login credentials to confirm their identify. MFA adds an additional layer of protection, reducing the risk of unauthorized access to AWS Partner Central. Additionally, it ensures only […]

AWS – Simplified service terms for AWS Marketplace sellers
AWS Partners can now register as sellers in AWS Marketplace with a simplified one-click experience. We have removed the need for AWS partners to review and accept a separate set of terms to sell in AWS Marketplace by including AWS Marketplace Terms into AWS service terms. Instead, partners simply sign in to their AWS account […]

AWS – Announcing Playlist page for PartyRock
Today, PartyRock is announcing a Playlist page to help you showcase a collection of PartyRock apps, curated by you. Everyone can build, use, and share generative AI powered apps using PartyRock, which uses foundation models from Amazon Bedrock. On November 26th, 2023, we announced a Discover page to showcase top community-created PartyRock apps. With this […]

AWS – Announcing Valkey GLIDE, an open source client library for Valkey and Redis open source
Today, we’re introducing Valkey General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE), an open source Valkey client library. Valkey is an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, and message queues. Valkey GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and it supports all Valkey commands. […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless expands support for time-series workloads up to 30TB
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports workloads up to 30TB of data for time-series collections. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. With the support for larger […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS introduces a highly available Single-AZ deployment option
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports highly available (HA) Single-AZ deployments, offering high availability and consistent sub-millisecond latencies for use cases like data analytics, machine learning, and semiconductor chip design that can benefit from high availability but do not require multi-zone resiliency. Single-AZ HA file systems provide a lower-latency and lower-cost storage option than Multi-AZ […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry now supports AWS PrivateLink VPC endpoints
Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry now supports AWS PrivateLink, allowing you to access the registry from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. With today’s launch, you can leverage EventBridge Schema Registry features from a private subnet without the need to deploy an internet gateway, configure firewall rules, or set up […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business now provides responses that are personalized to users
Amazon Q is excited to announce personalization capabilities in Q Business, that help customers further increase employee productivity by considering their user profile to provide more useful responses. Q uses information such as an employee’s location, department and role to improve the relevance of responses. Q Business’ personalization capabilities are automatically enabled and will use […]