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AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches advanced configurations to optimize SQL performance
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces support for advanced configurations to improve the performance of Spark SQL queries. This launch enables you to customize Spark properties and compute sizes for SQL queries at runtime, offering increased flexibility to meet your performance, scale, and cost requirements. With AWS Clean Rooms, you can configure Spark properties—such as shuffle […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers adds telemetry metrics to all server SDKs and game engine plugins
Today, Amazon GameLift Servers launched the addition of built-in telemetry metrics across all server SDKs and game engine plugins. Built on OpenTelemetry, an open source framework, Amazon GameLift Servers telemetry metrics enable game developers to generate, collect, and export critical client-side metrics for game-specific insights. With this release, Amazon GameLift Servers can now be configured […]
AWS – Introducing the Capacity Reservation Topology API for AI, ML, and HPC instance types
AWS announces the general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Reservation Topology API. It joins the Instance Topology API in enabling customers to efficiently manage capacity, schedule jobs, and rank nodes for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing distributed workloads. The Capacity Reservation Topology API gives customers a unique per-account hierarchical view of […]
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for Amazon Corretto 25
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now enables customers to build and deploy Java applications using Amazon Corretto 25 on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform. This latest platform support allows developers to leverage the newest Java 25 features while benefiting from AL2023’s enhanced security and performance capabilities. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service that provides the ability to […]
GCP – Master multi-tasking with the Jules extension for Gemini CLI
Tasks like fixing minor bugs, patching vulnerabilities, or updating dependencies can interrupt your workflow and drain productivity, whether you’re deep in a coding session or just starting your day. With the new Jules extension for Gemini CLI we announced yesterday, you can delegate tasks to Jules using the /jules command right from Gemini CLI. Jules […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds anomaly detection
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service now supports anomaly detection. Anomaly detection applies machine-learning algorithms to continuously analyze time series and surfaces anomalies with minimal user intervention. You can use anomaly detection to isolate and troubleshoot unexpected changes in your metric behavior. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Anomaly Detection currently […]
AWS – Introducing the Amazon OCSF Ready Specialization
We are excited to announce the Amazon OCSF Ready Specialization that recognizes AWS Partners who have technically validated their software solutions to integrate with OCSF-compatible Amazon services with proven customer success in production environments. The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) is an open-source initiative that simplifies how security data is normalized and shared across your […]
AWS – Announcing an AI agent context pack for AWS IoT Greengrass developers
AWS announces the release of a new AI agent context package for accelerating edge device application development using AWS IoT Greengrass. AWS IoT Greengrass is an IoT edge runtime and cloud service that helps developers build, deploy, and manage device software at the edge. The context package includes ready-to-use instructions, examples, and templates – enabling […]
AWS – AWS Serverless MCP Server now supports tools for AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESM)
The AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server now supports specialized tools for AWS Lambda event source mappings (ESM), helping developers configure and manage ESMs more efficiently. These new tools combine the power of AI assistance with Lambda ESM expertise to streamline how developers set up, optimize, and troubleshoot event-driven serverless applications built on Lambda. […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds single-action database snapshot copy across AWS Regions and accounts
AWS Backup now supports copying database snapshots across AWS Regions and accounts using a single copy action. This feature supports Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB snapshots. It eliminates the need for sequential copying steps. You can use cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copies to protect against incidents like ransomware attacks and Region […]
