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AWS – AWS Security Incident Response is now available in three additional AWS Regions
AWS Security Incident Response is now available to customers in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo). You can now use these additional regions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events. With AWS Security Incident Response, you can enhance your organization’s overall security posture and […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions
Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 32 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It […]
AWS – Amazon SQS now supports FIPS 140-3 enabled interface VPC endpoint
Amazon SQS now supports VPCE endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program. You can now easily use AWS PrivateLink with Amazon SQS for regulated workloads that require a secure connection using a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module. FIPS compliant endpoints help companies contracting with the US federal government […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes added by the PostgreSQL community. This release also includes […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database now supports PostgreSQL 16.8
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now available with PostgreSQL version 16.8 compatibility, bringing significant improvements and new features. This release contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora Limitless-specific additions such as support for the ltree extension, the btree_gist extension, and improved query performance. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Brisbane, Australia
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the NEXTDC B2 data center near Brisbane, Australia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This site is […]
GCP – Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics
At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced a major step forward in geospatial analytics: Earth Engine in BigQuery. This new capability unlocks Earth Engine raster analytics directly in BigQuery, making advanced analysis of geospatial datasets derived from satellite imagery accessible to the SQL community. Before we get into the details of this new capability and […]
GCP – New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance
BigQuery delivers optimized search/lookup query performance by efficiently pruning irrelevant files. However, in some cases, additional column information is required for search indexes to further optimize query performance. To help, we recently announced indexing with column granularity, which lets BigQuery pinpoint relevant data within columns, for faster search queries and lower costs. BigQuery arranges table […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in two new AWS Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, enabling you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (Bahrain). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache […]