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AWS – AWS CDK Construct Library for Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now generally available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct library for Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. This construct library allows developers to programmatically create, configure, and manage scheduled tasks using infrastructure as code with their preferred programming language, simplifying the process of building event-driven applications. The EventBridge Scheduler […]

AWS – AWS CDK L2 Construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now generally available
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) L2 construct for Amazon Cognito Identity Pools. This library enables developers to programmatically define and deploy Identity Pool resources using familiar programming languages, making it easier to grant users secure access to AWS services in their applications. With this […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront supports VPC Origin modification with CloudFront Functions
In November 2024, CloudFront Functions introduced origin modifications, allowing you to conditionally change origin servers on each request. Starting today, you can now use this capability with VPC Origins and origin groups, enabling you to create even more sophisticated routing policies for your applications delivered from CloudFront. You can now create dynamic routing policies that […]

AWS – Announcing enhanced autoscaling for Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion pipelines
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports enhanced autoscaling capabilities, allowing pipelines to scale dynamically based on additional parameters, including Amazon SQS queue size, persistent buffer lag, and the number of incoming HTTP connections. These enhancements improves upon the existing scaling mechanism, which previously relied only on memory and CPU utilization, providing a more comprehensive and responsive […]

AWS – IAM Identity Center extends sessions and TIP management capabilities for customers with Microsoft AD
AWS IAM Identity Center enhanced its session management and trusted identity propagation (TIP) capabilities for customers that connect Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as their identity source. The enhanced capabilities help customers manage user sessions, scale their use of AWS applications, such as Amazon Q Developer Pro, and implement use cases, such as for analytics, with […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 additional visual ETL transforms
Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker now offers 9 new built-in transforms: “Derived column”, “Flatten”, “Add current timestamp”, “Explode array or map into rows”, “To timestamp”, “Array to columns”, “Intersect”, “Limit” and “Concatenate columns”. Visual ETL in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building ETL flows and authoring flows with Amazon Q Developer. With these […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy announces TLS 1.3 support for PostgreSQL on Aurora and RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol for Proxy connections to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and RDS for PostgreSQL database instances. TLS 1.3 provides improved security through stronger cryptographic algorithms and simplified handshake process as compared to older TLS versions. With this release, RDS Proxy can […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats
Amazon Connect now allows supervisors to take additional actions on in-progress chats directly from the Amazon Connect UI, accelerating issue resolution and improving customer satisfaction. For example, supervisors can now end chats with inactive customers or reassign chats to specific agents or queues. To learn more, please refer to the help documentation or visit the […]

GCP – Instance Replication now available for Filestore
We are excited to announce Filestore Instance Replication on Google Cloud, which helps customers meet their business continuity goals and regulatory requirements. The feature offers an efficient replication point objective (RPO) that can reach 30 minutes for data change rates of 100 MB/sec. Our customers have been telling us they need to meet regulatory and […]
GCP – Google, Bytedance, and Red Hat make Kubernetes generative AI inference aware
Over the past ten years, Kubernetes has become the leading platform for deploying cloud-native applications and microservices, backed by an extensive community and boasting a comprehensive feature set for managing distributed systems. Today, we are excited to share that Kubernetes is now unlocking new possibilities for generative AI inference. In partnership with Red Hat and […]