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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 […]

AWS – AWS Managed Microsoft AD increases directory sharing limits
AWS has increased the account sharing limits for AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory sharing, allowing customers to share their directories with significantly more AWS accounts. The Standard Edition limit has increased from 5 to 25 accounts, while the Enterprise Edition limit has expanded from 125 to 500 accounts. These enhanced limits remove previous technical constraints […]

AWS – Amazon VPC now supports IPv4 ingress routing for large IP Pools
Amazon VPC now allows customers to route inbound internet traffic destined for large pools of public IP addresses, to a single elastic network interface (ENI) within a VPC. Prior to this enhancement, internet gateways only accepted traffic destined to public IP addresses that were associated with network interfaces in the VPC. There are limits to […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 11.4.8, 10.11.14 and 10.6.23
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 11.4.8, 10.11.14 and 10.6.23. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]

AWS – CloudFormation Hooks Adds Managed Controls and Hook Activity Summary
WS CloudFormation Hooks now support managed proactive controls, allowing customers to validate resource configurations against AWS best practices without writing custom hook logic. Customers can select controls from the AWS Control Tower Controls Catalog and apply them during CloudFormation operations. This helps reduce setup time, avoid manual errors, and improve the completeness and consistency of […]

AWS – SageMaker HyperPod now supports fine-grained quota allocation of compute resources
SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports fine-grained compute quota allocation of GPU, Trainium accelerator, vCPU, and vCPU memory within an instance. Administrators can allocate fine-grained compute quota across teams, optimizing compute resource distribution and staying within budget. Data scientists often execute LLM tasks, like training or inference, that do not require entire HyperPod instances, leading […]
GCP – Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies
Managing large model artifacts is a common bottleneck in MLOps. Baking models into container images leads to slow, monolithic deployments, and downloading them at startup introduces significant delays. This guide explores a better way: decoupling your models from your code by hosting them in Cloud Storage and accessing them efficiently from GKE and Cloud Run. […]