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AWS – Amazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT with Amazon S3 Tables
Amazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT (CTAS) statements with Amazon S3 Tables. Using CTAS statements makes it simple to create a new table and populate it with data using the results of a SELECT query. You can now use CTAS statements in Athena to query existing datasets and create a new table in […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports more granular throttle error exceptions
DynamoDB now supports more granular throttling exceptions along with their corresponding Amazon CloudWatch metrics. The additional fields in the new throttling exceptions identify the specific resources and reasons for throttling events, making it easier to understand and diagnose throttling-related issues. You can see the new Amazon CloudWatch metrics immediately, and upon upgrading your SDK to […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports a CloudWatch Contributor Insights mode exclusively for throttled keys
DynamoDB now supports the ability to selectively emit events for throttled keys to CloudWatch Contributor Insights, enabling you to monitor throttled keys without emitting events for all accessed keys. By emitting events for throttled keys exclusively, you no longer need to pay for all of your successful request events. Cloudwatch Contributor Insights for DynamoDB can […]
GCP – Monitor your databases on Compute Engine with Database Center
Database Center is an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that can help you identify and address security risks, performance bottlenecks, and reliability issues for Google Cloud databases including Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Bigtable, Memorystore, and Firestore. Today, we are excited to announce that Database Center can now monitor your self-managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server […]
GCP – Beyond guardrails: A taxonomy of platform engineering control mechanisms
The promise of platform engineering is to accelerate software delivery by empowering developers with self-service capabilities. However, this must be balanced with security, compliance, and operational stability, and for this, you need robust controls. But all too frequently, people talk about “guardrails” — a term whose meaning is often ambiguous, leading to confusion, or worse, […]
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports AWS PrivateLink so that you can access ACM APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. This feature can help you meet compliance requirements by allowing you to access and use ACM APIs entirely within the AWS network. ACM simplifies the process of provisioning […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds support resource policies
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service, now supports resource-based policies, making it easier to build applications that work across accounts. With resource-based policies, you can specify which Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals have access to ingest or query your Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace. To allow cross-account ingestion […]
AWS – AWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actions
Starting today, customers can view 6 new recommended actions added to the existing list of 15 recommended actions available in the AWS Billing and Cost Management Console recommended actions widget. These recommended actions include notifications across AWS payments and tax settings, such as an expired payment method or if tax registration numbers are invalid. All […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports cross-region automated backups for encrypted databases
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Db2 now supports cross-region automated backups for encrypted databases, providing customers with an additional layer of data protection while safeguarding their mission critical Db2 workloads against regional outages. Customers can now securely copy encrypted database snapshots to regions outside of their primary AWS region for improved disaster recovery. The […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune now integrates with Cognee for graph-native memory in GenAI Applications
Today, we’re announcing the integration of Amazon Neptune Analytics with Cognee, a leading agentic memory framework designed to help AI agents structure, retrieve, and reason over information. With this launch, customers can use Neptune as the graph store behind Cognee’s memory layer, enabling long-term memory and reasoning capabilities for agentic AI applications. This integration allows […]