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AWS – Amazon Connect now supports configuration of email address aliases
Amazon Connect now lets you configure aliases for email addresses, so customers see trusted identities when sending or receiving messages, helping maintain a consistent brand experience and simplify email management. For example, when forwarding a customer-facing address such as support@company.com to an address in Amazon Connect, you can configure an alias to ensure customers continue […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle is now available with R7i memory-optimized instances offering up to 64:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle is now available with R7i memory-optimized preconfigured instances that offer additional memory and storage I/O per vCPU. Powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with AWS Nitro System and DDR5 memory for high performance, these instances provide up to 64:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. Many Oracle database workloads […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports direct code deployment
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports two deployment methods for AI agents: container-based deployment and direct code upload. Developers can now choose between direct code-zip file upload for rapid prototyping and iteration, or leverage advanced container-based options for complex use cases requiring custom configurations. AgentCore Runtime provides a serverless, framework and model agnostic runtime for […]
AWS – AWS Config conformance packs now available in additional AWS Regions
AWS Config conformance packs and organization-level management capabilities for conformance packs are now available in additional AWS Regions. Conformance packs allow you to bundle AWS Config rules into a single package, simplifying deployment at scale. You can deploy and manage these conformance packs throughout your AWS environment. Conformance packs provide a general-purpose compliance framework designed […]
AWS – AWS Config launches 42 new managed rules
AWS Config announces launch of an additional 42 managed Config rules for various use cases such as security, cost, durability, and operations. You can now search, discover, enable and manage these additional rules directly from AWS Config and govern more use cases for your AWS environment. With this launch, you can now enable these controls […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds multi-browser support in AWS GovCloud Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics multi-browser support is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. This expansion enables customers in these two regions to test and monitor their web applications using both Chrome and Firefox browsers. With this launch, you can run the same canary script across Chrome and Firefox when using Playwright-based canaries or […]
GCP – The Data Engineering Agent is now in preview
Data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, but the process of making it useful is often fraught with friction. Data engineers, analysts, and scientists—some of the most skilled and valuable talent in any organization—are spending a disproportionate amount of their time on repetitive, low-impact tasks. What if you could shift your focus from manually […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito removes Machine-to-Machine app client price dimension
We’re excited to announce a simplified pricing model for Amazon Cognito’s machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication. Starting today we are removing the M2M app client pricing dimension, making it more cost-effective for customers to build and scale their M2M applications. Cognito supports applications that access API data with machine identities. Machine identities in user pools are clients […]
GCP – Evolving Ray and Kubernetes together for the future of distributed AI and ML
Ray is an OSS compute engine that is popular among Google Cloud developers to handle complex distributed AI workloads across CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs. Similarly, platform engineers have long trusted Kubernetes, and specifically Google Kubernetes Engine, for powerful and reliable infrastructure orchestration. Earlier this year, we announced a partnership with Anyscale to bring the best […]
GCP – Announcing the General Availability of Smarter, AI-powered Cost Anomaly Detection
Last year, we announced the public preview of Cost Anomaly Detection, an AI-powered product designed to eliminate one of the biggest anxieties of using the Cloud: unexpected costs. The goal was to provide a safety net that automatically identifies unusual spikes in spending, helping you catch issues before they become financial problems. Today, we are […]