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AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now available in Hyderabad and Dubai Regions
AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server workloads in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)and Middle East (UAE) Regions. We are also announcing support for additional languages within AWS Launch Wizard, including Chinese (traditional and simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains
Amazon Route 53 offers domain name registration services, previously supporting 315 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) while providing easy integration with other AWS services. We are excited to announce the recent addition of 14 additional TLDs that you can now register with Route 53: .actor, .airforce, .bet, .degree, .games, .gives, .gmbh, .group, .press, .site, .space, .tech, .store, […]

AWS – VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in 2 additional regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in AWS Europe (Zurich) region and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. The addition of these 2 regions expands the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS to a total of 25 regions globally, enabling customers to have a faster and more efficient way to migrate […]

AWS – Announcing preview of JSON protocol support for Amazon SQS
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces a preview of JSON protocol support, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and […]

AWS – AWS announces Public IP Insights, a new feature of VPC IP Address Manager
Public IP Insights is an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) feature that provides a unified view of all public IPv4 addresses, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze and audit public IPv4 addresses used across AWS services, in your AWS account. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Database Encryption SDK for Amazon DynamoDB now generally available
Today, we announce the general availability of AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst supports deployments to Elastic Kubernetes Service
Today, Amazon Web Services announces support for deploying to Kubernetes clusters running on Elastic Kubernetes Service from an Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, […]

AWS – AWS Wickr offers federated data retention for internal and external conversations
AWS Wickr now offers Data Retention that extends to both internal and external communications in a Wickr network. A Wickr network administrator can configure and apply Data Retention to all in-network conversations. This includes shared media and files, as well as conversations with guest users, external teams, and other partner networks to help meet internal, […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances, Amazon EC2 M7gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks now support the G5 instance family in the South America (São Paulo region
Amazon SageMaker Studio launched support for the ml.G5 GPU instance family in the South America region (São Paulo). Customers using ml.G5 instances in Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks can leverage up to 3.3x faster performance for machine learning training compared to ml.G4dn instances. This makes them a high performance and cost-efficient solution for interactive model training […]