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AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SQS announces increased throughput quota for FIFO High Throughput mode
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces an increased quota for a high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 9,000 transactions per second, per API action in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt) regions. For Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service enhanced homogeneous migrations now supports MariaDB
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) makes homogeneous migrations simpler with built-in native database tooling. Today, in addition to supporting MySQL and PostgreSQL, this feature now supports MariaDB. Built-in native database tooling with homogeneous data migrations provides simple and performant like-to-like migrations with minimal downtime. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: Azure Monitor container insights offers customizable cost optimization settings
Azure Monitor container insights now allows customers to configure custom collection settings for the Perf, Inventory, InsightsMetrics, and KubeEvents tables to reduce their Log Analytics ingestion. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) is now available in Jakarta region
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Jakarta region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including monitoring, […]

GCP – DevOps Awards winner Kakao Mobility on balancing speed and stability
Kakao Mobility is the leading mobility service provider in South Korea, providing taxi services, turn-by-turn directions, public transport, parking space searching, and real-time traffic information to more than 30M users in South Korea. In this blog post, we’re highlighting Kakao Mobility for the DevOps achievements that earned them the ‘Optimizing for speed without sacrificing stability’ […]

Azure – Public preview: Route Server hub routing preference
Configure hub routing preference to influence path selection for the same on-premises destination prefixes learned over (S2S) VPN, ExpressRoute, and SD-WAN NVAs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports M7g and R7g Graviton3-based nodes
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families. ElastiCache Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price-performance compared to Graviton2. As an example, when running ElastiCache for Redis on an R7g.4xlarge node, you can achieve up to 28% increased throughput (read and write operations per second) and up to 21% improved P99 latency, compared to running […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose in the Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Claude 2 foundation model from Anthropic is now available in Amazon Bedrock
You can now access Claude 2, the latest version of Anthropic’s large language model (LLM), on Amazon Bedrock. Claude 2 can take up to 100,000 tokens in each prompt, meaning it can work over hundreds of pages of text, or even an entire book. Claude 2 can also write longer documents—on the order of a […]