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AWS – AWS HealthOmics introduces third-party Git repository support for workflow creation
AWS HealthOmics announces third-party Git repository integration via AWS CodeConnections for workflow creation, enabling bioinformaticians and researchers to seamlessly connect their existing source code management repositories to HealthOmics. This new capability allows customers to automatically pull workflow definitions, parameter templates, and README files directly from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories without intermediate steps. AWS HealthOmics […]
AWS – Announcing readme file support for AWS HealthOmics workflows
Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces enhanced workflow documentation capabilities with the addition of readme file support. This new feature allows bioinformaticians and researchers to attach comprehensive documentation, implementation details, and diagrams directly to their bioinformatics workflows and workflow versions. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M8g and R8g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g and R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, […]

AWS – AWS Service Reference Information now supports actions for last accessed services
AWS is expanding service reference information to include information about which service actions are supported by the IAM Last Accessed and IAM Access Analyzer Policy Generation features. IAM Last Accessed and Policy Generator features help you journey towards least privilege permissions, and now you can easily reference which service actions are supported by these features […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for quick responses
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for quick responses, enabling customers to deploy and manage quick responses using AWS CloudFormation templates. Quick responses allow contact center agents to access pre-configured messages to respond consistently and efficiently to common customer inquiries. With AWS CloudFormation, administrators can now define and deploy these quick responses across environments in […]

AWS – Announcing Bloom filter support in Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Bloom filters as a new data type in ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey and above. Bloom filters are a space efficient probabilistic data structure that lets you quickly check whether an item is possibly in a set. This new feature is fully compatible with the valkey-bloom module and API compatible with […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available in 22 additional Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available in the US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Thailand), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (London, Milan, Paris, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), Middle East (Bahrain, UAE), and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. Aurora PostgreSQL […]

AWS – AWS Glue now supports Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a data source
AWS Glue now offers a new native connector for Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling data engineers to easily integrate data from this enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) platform. This connector allows AWS Glue users to build efficient extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs that seamlessly connect to Microsoft Dynamics 365 as a […]

GCP – Announcing the new Google Developer Program forums
Building applications is sometimes messy, it’s always iterative, and it often works best when it’s collaborative. As a developer, you regularly experience the frustration of a cryptic error message and the quiet triumph of finding a clever workaround. Either way, finding help or sharing success is best facilitated by a community of builders. That’s why […]

GCP – New Cluster Director features: Simplified GUI, managed Slurm, advanced observability
In April, we released Cluster Director, a unified management plane that makes deploying and managing large-scale AI infrastructure simpler and more intuitive than ever before, putting the power of an AI supercomputer at your fingertips. Today, we’re excited to release new features in preview including an intuitive interface, managed Slurm experience, and observability dashboard that […]