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AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database introduces Global Database Failover
Amazon Aurora now supports Global Database Failover, a fully managed experience for performing a cross-Region database failover to respond to unplanned events such as a regional outage. With Global Database Failover, you can convert a secondary region into the new primary region in typically a minute and also maintain the multi-region Global Database configuration. To […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 10.11 for up to 40% higher transaction throughput
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB major version 10.11, the latest long-term maintenance release from the MariaDB community. Amazon RDS for MariaDB 10.11 includes performance improvements that enable up to 40% higher transaction throughput than prior versions. You can deploy RDS for MariaDB 10.11 on RDS Optimized Read and Optimized Write enabled instance classes for […]

AWS – AWS PrivateLink announces support for user defined IP on VPC endpoints
You can now choose IP addresses for your AWS PrivateLink VPC endpoints. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed, private connectivity service that enables customers to share and access services including AWS services, third-party services, and internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private. Read More for the […]

GCP – What is Multimodal Search: “LLMs with vision” change businesses
What if large language models (LLMs) had “vision”, the ability to understand the meaning of images? Just like we have seen the innovation with LLMs with chatbots and text data, the ability would make another huge impact on businesses by letting LLMs look at and organize millions of images in enterprise IT systems. In this […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab supports SageMaker Distribution
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab now supports the SageMaker Distribution image. Studio Lab customers have often asked for an environment that comes pre-installed with popular libraries including PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras, and an easier way to migrate their Studio Lab environment to Amazon SageMaker Studio. SageMaker Distribution fulfills both of […]

AWS – AWS Application Migration Service now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) region
Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to migrate and modernize your applications in Israel (Tel Aviv) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, customers can deploy their stack sets to and from this newly supported AWS Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) region
AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Israel (Tel-Aviv) region, bringing AWS Firewall Manager to a total of 30 AWS commercial regions, 2 GovCloud regions, and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Sagemaker Data Wrangler now supports S3 access points
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports S3 access points for previewing and importing data to SageMaker Data Wrangler and as a destination for data exported from SageMaker Data Wrangler. Preparing high quality data for ML is often complex and time consuming as it requires aggregating data across various sources and formats using different tools. With SageMaker […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert now available in the Osaka and Melbourne regions
AWS Elemental MediaConvert is now available in both the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Australia (Melbourne) regions, giving customers two additional options for configuring and submitting MediaConvert jobs using the console or API endpoints. Read More for the details.