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AWS – Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Thailand). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can […]

AWS – Fault Injection Service is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) is a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve application performance, observability, and resilience. Customers can test how their applications and people respond to real-world scenarios, including AZ Availability: Power Interruption and Cross-Region: Connectivity. Customers can create experiment templates in FIS to integrate experiments with continuous […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. The list of all supported regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is generally available can […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports IPv6 in dual stack configuration for Application and Network Load Balancers
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports dual-stack configuration for both Application Load Balancers (ALB) and Network Load Balancers (NLB), allowing environments to serve both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols. You can now set the IpAddressType option to “dualstack,” and Elastic Beanstalk will automatically configure your load balancer with dual-stack support, creating both A and AAAA DNS records. […]

AWS – AWS Backup now supports selective backup of ACLs and ObjectTags in Amazon S3 backups
AWS Backup now lets you choose whether to include Access Control Lists (ACLs) and ObjectTags when backing up your Amazon S3 buckets. Previously, AWS Backup included these metadata components for all objects by default. This new capability lets you customize your backup approach based on your recovery needs, so you can include only the metadata […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS US East (Ohio) region
AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in US East (Ohio) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring adds flow visibility between Regions
With flow monitors in Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring, you can now monitor network performance of traffic flowing between AWS Regions across the AWS global network. Flow monitors provide near real-time visibility of network performance for workloads between compute instances such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon EKS, and AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon […]

AWS – AWS HealthImaging now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication for DICOMweb APIs
AWS HealthImaging now supports OAuth 2.0-compatible identity providers for authentication of DICOMweb requests using OpenID Connect (OIDC). With OIDC authentication, you can manage secure access to DICOM resources using your organization’s standard procedures for creating, enabling, and disabling user accounts. With this launch, you can now use existing identity providers (IdPs)—such as Amazon Cognito, Okta, […]

GCP – Introducing no-cost, multicloud Data Transfer Essentials for EU and U.K. customers
At Google Cloud, our services are built with interoperability and openness in mind to enable customer choice and multicloud strategies. We pioneered a multicloud data warehouse, enabling workloads to run across clouds. We were the first company to provide digital sovereignty solutions for European governments and to waive exit fees for customers who stop using […]
AWS – TwelveLabs’ Marengo Embed 2.7 can now be used for synchronous inference in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports synchronous inference for TwelveLabs’ Marengo 2.7, expanding the capabilities of this multimodal embedding model to deliver low-latency text and image embeddings directly within the API response. This update enables developers to build more responsive, interactive search and retrieval experiences while maintaining the same powerful video understanding capabilities that have made Marengo […]