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AWS – CloudWatch Database Insights adds support for Aurora Limitless PostgreSQL
CloudWatch Database Insights announces support for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless databases. Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience designed for DevOps engineers, application developers, and database administrators (DBAs) to expedite database troubleshooting and gain a holistic view into their database fleet health. Database Insights consolidates logs and metrics from your […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 Profiles now available in three additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Route 53 Profiles is available in Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions. Route 53 Profiles allows you to define a standard DNS configuration (Profile), that may include Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ) associations, Route 53 Resolver rules, and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply this […]

AWS – Amazon ECS increases container exit reason message to 1024 characters
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has extended the length of the container exit reason message from 255 to 1024 characters. The enhancement helps you debug more effectively by providing more complete error messages when containers fail. Amazon ECS customers use container exit reason messages to troubleshoot their running or stopped tasks. Error messages can […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus launches query insights and control capabilities
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service, now provides the capability to identify expensive PromQL queries, and limit their execution. This enables customers to monitor and control the types of queries being issued against their Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspaces. Customers have highlighted the need for tighter governance controls for […]

AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 4 foundation models now in Amazon Bedrock
The next generation of Anthropic’s Claude models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, are now available in Amazon Bedrock, representing significant advancements in AI capabilities. These models excel at coding, enable AI agents to analyze thousands of data sources, execute long-running tasks, write high-quality content, and perform complex actions. Both Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R7i and M7i instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports R7i and M7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors, available only on AWS. R7i and M7i instances are available in sizes up to 48xlarge, or 50% larger than the previous generation R6i and M6i instances. M7i […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility
Today, AWS Control Tower introduces a new ‘Enabled controls’ page, helping customers track, filter, and manage their enabled controls across their AWS Control Tower organization. This enhancement significantly improves visibility and streamlines the management of your AWS Control Tower controls, saving valuable time and reducing the complexity of managing enabled controls. For organizations managing hundreds […]

AWS – AWS HealthImaging now supports DICOMweb series level metadata retrievals
Today, AWS HealthImaging announces support for retrieving the metadata for all DICOM instances in a series via a single API action. This new feature extends HealthImaging’s support for the DICOMweb standard, simplifying integrations and improving interoperability with existing applications. This launch significantly reduces the cost and complexity of retrieving series level metadata, especially when DICOM […]

AWS – AWS HealthImaging launches DICOMweb QIDO-RS search and enhanced data management
AWS HealthImaging announces rich hierarchical search per the DICOMweb QIDO-RS standard as well as an improved data management experience. With this launch, HealthImaging automatically organizes image sets into DICOM Study and Series resources. Incoming DICOM SOP instances are automatically merged to the same DICOM Series. Rich DICOMweb QIDO-RS search capabilities make it easier to find […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora reduces cross-Region Global Database Switchover time to typically under 30 seconds
Amazon Aurora for MySQL and Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL now offer faster Global Database cross-Region switchover, reducing recovery time for read/write operations to typically under 30 seconds and enhancing availability for applications operating at a global scale. With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages […]