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AWS – Resource control policies (RCPs) are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS Organizations is making resource control policies (RCPs) available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. RCPs help you centrally establish a data perimeter across your AWS environment. With RCPs, you can centrally restrict external access to your AWS resources at scale. RCPs are a type of authorization policy in AWS […]
AWS – New Open-Source AWS Advanced PostgreSQL ODBC Driver now available for Amazon Aurora and RDS
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) ODBC Driver for PostgreSQL is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition database clusters. This database driver provides support for faster switchover and failover times, Aurora Limitless, and authentication with AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), or Federated Identity. The Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7g and R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton3-based M7g database instances in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Middle East (UAE), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Zurich) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. R7g is now supported in Middle East (Bahrain), South America (Sao […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports R7i database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility and PostgreSQL compatibility now supports R7i database instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. R7i database instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i and R7i database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M7i database (DB) instances in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), South America (Sao Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. R7i DB instances are now supported in South America (Sao Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. M7i and R7i […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports T4g database instances in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g database instances in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) region. T4g database instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance, with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. For complete information on pricing and regional […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports R7g database instances in additional AWS Regions
AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Middle East (Bahrain) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Aurora depending on database engine, version, and workload. Graviton3 processors offer several improvements […]

AWS – Amazon ECR adds support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) announces IPv6 support for API and Docker/OCI endpoints for both ECR and ECR Public. This makes it easier to standardize on IPv6 and remove IP address scalability limitations for your container build, deployment, and orchestration infrastructure. With today’s launch, you can pull your private or public ECR images via the […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports R8g database instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. Graviton4-based instances provide up to […]

GCP – Create chatbots that speak different languages with Gemini, Gemma, Translation LLM, and Model Context Protocol
Your customers might not all speak the same language. If you operate internationally or serve a diverse customer base, you need your chatbot to meet them where they are – whether they’re searching for something in Spanish or Japanese. If you want to give your customers multilingual support with chatbots, you’ll need to orchestrate multiple […]