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GCP – Accelerate Mainframe Modernization with gen AI from Google Cloud and its partners
Modernizing mainframes has been a long and expensive process for too long. Today, we’re launching new solutions that bring the combined strength of Gemini models, and our partners’ technologies and services to accelerate mainframe modernization. Google Cloud generative AI products for mainframe modernization Google Cloud currently offers three products for mainframe customers looking to reimagine […]
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 with support for Ubuntu 24.04 and support for EFA-enabled with Amazon FSx for Lustre
AWS ParallelCluster 3.13 is now generally available. Key features of this release include support for Ubuntu 24.04, an updated Slurm version 24.05.07 and support for Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)-enabled Amazon FSx for Lustre filesystems on official ParallelCluster AMIs. You can use EFA with your FSx Lustre filesystems to achieve higher throughput and complete jobs faster, […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
Today, AWS announces an updated service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Neptune, increasing the Monthly Uptime Percentage for Multi-AZ DB Instance, Multi-AZ DB Cluster, and Multi-AZ Graph from 99.90% to 99.99%. This enhancement reflects AWS’s continued commitment to providing a highly available and reliable graph database service for your mission-critical applications. With this new SLA, […]
AWS – SES Mail Manager now supports incoming connections from customer VPCs via PrivateLink
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces that its Mail Manager email modernization and infrastructure features now accept incoming connections from customer-provisioned Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to Mail Manager Ingress Endpoints. This makes use of PrivateLink connectivity features already provided by AWS. Since Mail Manager launched in mid-2024, VPC connectivity has become the most-requested new feature […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20250220 and 12.22-rds.20250220
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-rds.20250220 and 12.22-rds.20250220. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major […]
AWS – AWS Glue G4 and G8 worker types now available in six new regions
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue G.4X and G.8X workers in the US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), and South America (São Paulo) AWS regions. Glue G.4X and G.8X workers enable you to run your most demanding serverless data integration workloads in these additional […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon SNS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SNS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints. Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables publish/subscribe messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven […]
AWS – Amazon Security Lake now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon Security Lake customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses via new dual-stack endpoints to configure and manage the service. This update addresses the growing need for IPv6 adoption due to the exhaustion of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses caused by continued internet growth. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions expands SDK integrations with Amazon Backup Search and 137 additional APIs
AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for Amazon Backup Search. You can now orchestrate backup discovery and management actions directly in your workflows without writing additional integration code. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers […]
AWS – Amazon Q Business Browser Extension now available to all subscribers
Today, Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon Q Business browser extensions for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Edge to all Q Business subscribers. Now, all Q Business users can supercharge their browsers’ intelligence and receive context-aware, generative AI assistance directly within their web pages. The Amazon Q Business browser extensions enhance […]