Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports physical data migration via Oracle Recovery Manager cross-platform Transportable Tablespaces (RMAN XTTS). As of today, you can migrate sets of tablespaces to RDS for Oracle using Oracle RMAN XTTS to simplify movement of large amounts of data and reduce application downtime for a physical data […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.13, 10.5.20, 10.4.29, and 10.3.39. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in Nigeria by launching a new edge location in Lagos. Customers in Nigeria can expect up to 20% improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a highly distributed and […]

Amazon Location Service now supports geofence metadata, allowing customers to associate up to three types of additional information (metadata) to a virtual perimeter of a real-world geographical area known as a geofence. With metadata, developers can enrich their applications with properties about each geofence, such as building floor, area designation, route ID, etc., to address […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6i and R6i instances are available in AWS Region Middle East (UAE). These instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. […]

Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-four.  Read More for the details.

Today, Amazon Location Service added support for places categories, allowing developers to request, filter, or group places based on specific categories such as coffee shops or restaurants. Developers can use places categories to improve the relevance of their searches, increase the accuracy of their location-based insights, and improve their customer experience. For example, a developer […]