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AWS – AWS Verified Access achieves FedRAMP High and Moderate authorization
AWS Verified Access is a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud Regions and a FedRAMP Moderate authorized service in the AWS US East and US West commercial regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP compliance requirements can now leverage AWS Verified Access to enable secure VPN-less access to corporate […]

AWS – Announcing support of AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0
Today, we announce support for AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0 for Apache Spark jobs. AWS Glue Data Catalog views with AWS Glue 5.0 allows customers to create views from Glue 5.0 Spark jobs that can be queried from multiple engines without requiring access to referenced tables. AWS Glue is a serverless, […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M8g and R8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton4-based M8g database instances in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), and Europe (London) Regions and R8g database instances in Europe (Ireland), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% […]

AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces CodeBuild and Commands rule for stage level condition
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipeline introduces CodeBuild rule and Commands rule that customers can use in their stage level condition to gate a pipeline execution. You can use CodeBuild rule to start a CodeBuild build or Commands rule to run simple shell commands before exiting a stage, when all actions in the stage have completed […]

AWS – Meta’s Llama 3.2 models are now available for fine-tuning in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now supports fine-tuning for Meta’s Llama 3.2 models (1B, 3B, 11B, and 90B), enabling businesses to customize these generative AI models with their own data. Llama 3.2 models are available in various sizes, from small (1B and 3B) to medium-sized multimodal models (11B and 90B). Llama 3.2 11B and 90B models are the […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection now available in AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions
Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection is now automatically available in AWS GovCloud (US) and China Regions. This capability allows you to identify sophisticated, multi-stage attacks targeting your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. You can now use new attack sequence findings that cover multiple resources and data sources over an extensive time period, allowing you to […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports Internet Protocol version 6
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). Customers now have the option of using either IPv6 or IPv4 when sending requests over dual-stack public endpoints. Kinesis Data Streams allows users to capture, process, and store data streams in real time at any scale. IPv6 increases […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless Streaming jobs is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless Streaming jobs, which enables you to continuously analyze and process […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless achieves FedRAMP High authorization
Amazon EMR Serverless is now a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now leverage EMR Serverless to run Apache Spark and Hive workloads. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it […]