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AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Kafka and Amazon MQ event sources in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MSK, self-manged Apache Kafka and Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ as event sources in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This gives customers more choices for how they want to send messages to Lambda. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on […]

AWS – Monitor the health of your Amazon IVS channels with multiple hosts
Amazon IVS now offers developers the ability to monitor the health of live streams with multiple hosts. Hosts are connected to each other using the stage resource, which allows them to exchange audio and video with each other in real time. This release gives developers building with Amazon IVS the tools needed to better understand […]

AWS – AWS announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized, a new configuration that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. Aurora I/O-Optimized offers improved performance, increasing throughput and reducing latency for customers’ most demanding workloads. With Aurora I/O-Optimized, there are zero charges for read and write I/O operations—you […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL support for Graviton3 based R7g instance family
AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement and up to 20% price-performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Aurora depending on […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports enabling Cluster Mode configuration on existing clusters
You can now update your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster configuration to enable cluster mode without needing to rebuild you cluster, migrate data, or affect application availability. Cluster mode allows you to scale beyond the performance limitations of a single shard Redis cluster. For more information about cluster mode in ElastiCache for Redis, see the […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS App Mesh now supports AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access AWS App Mesh APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your data through public internet. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges. See the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CodeWhisperer now available as extension in JupyterLab and Amazon SageMaker Studio
Today, we’re excited to announce that data scientists can use CodeWhisperer for no additional charge to generate real-time code suggestions for Python notebooks in JupyterLab and Amazon SageMaker Studio. With CodeWhisperer, you can write a comment in natural language that outlines a specific coding task in English and CodeWhisperer will recommend one or more code […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for document ID that is auto-generated by Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose customers can now send data to Amazon OpenSearch Service using OpenSearch Service auto-generated document ID option. This configuration option enables write-heavy operations, such as log analytics and observability, to consume fewer CPU resources at the OpenSearch domain, resulting in improved performance. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Service Management Connector now supports provisioning with Terraform
Starting today, customers can use AWS Service Catalog to enable self-service provisioning of Terraform configurations in the AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow. These Terraform products will render as ServiceNow Service Catalog items that can leverage approvals and business workflows within ServiceNow. Customers can now use AWS Service Catalog as the single tool to organize, […]