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AWS – AWS announces enhanced custom line item controls for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor customers gain greater flexibility when using custom line items. Customers can now create service-specific custom line items scoped at either one AWS service or to a set of selected AWS service and can choose how these line items are presented in the pro forma billing artifacts, such as Bills Page, […]
GCP – Introducing Gemini 3 Flash: Intelligence and speed for enterprises
Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. Gemini 3 Flash builds on the model series that developers and enterprises already love, optimized for high-frequency workflows that demand speed, without sacrificing quality. It allows enterprises to process near […]
AWS – Amazon ECR Public now supports PrivateLink for US East (N. Virginia) SDK Endpoint
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Public now supports PrivateLink for the US East (N. Virginia) SDK endpoint, providing enhanced network security and private connectivity for customers. This update allows customers to access this ECR Public SDK endpoint through a private network connection, reducing exposure to the public internet. With this enhancement, customers can now establish […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in Europe (Zurich)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g, R8g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and R8g and M8g instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. They are built on the […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces new OI2 instances
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces OI2 instances, expanding the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family. The new OI2 instances delivers up to 9% higher indexing throughput compared to OR2 instances and up to 33% over I8g instances in our internal benchmarks. The new OI2 OpenSearch Optimized instances use the same architecture as the OR2 instances, leveraging best-in-class cloud […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a new multi-tier storage
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers a new multi-tier storage option powered by OpenSearch Optimized Instances. This new architecture combines Amazon S3 cloud technology with local instance storage to deliver improved durability and performance. The new multi-tier architecture features two tiers: hot and warm. The hot tier handles frequently accessed data, while the warm tier leverages […]
AWS – AWS Security Incident Response is now available in ten additional AWS Regions
AWS Security Incident Response is now available to customers in ten additional opt-in AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Zurich, Milan, Spain), Middle East (UAE, Bahrain). You can now use these additional regions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from security events faster and more effectively. AWS […]
AWS – AWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing
Today, AWS Payment Cryptography announced a significant price reduction of up to 63% for API requests across existing tiers and introduced a new fourth tier. This change unifies pricing across all regions and enables customers to migrate higher volume workloads to the service without being worried about pricing. As part of this update, we moved […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management Commands now supports dynamic payloads
AWS IoT Device Management commands now supports dynamic payload functionality, enabling developers to create reusable command templates with placeholders that can be replaced with different values during command execution. The enhancement also includes parameter validation rules to verify that parameter values conform to specified criteria before execution. With this update, developers can now set parameters […]
