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AWS – MiniMax-M2 is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
MiniMax-M2 is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, providing customers with immediate access to deploy this efficient open-source model in minutes. With SageMaker JumpStart, you can quickly discover, evaluate, and deploy MiniMax-M2 using either SageMaker Studio’s intuitive interface or the SageMaker Python SDK for programmatic deployment. MiniMax-M2 redefines efficiency for agents. It’s a compact, fast, […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager announces improved secret sorting capabilities
Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces enhanced secret sorting capabilities in the Secrets Manager console and for ListSecrets API. You can now sort secrets by name, last changed date, last accessed date, and creation date—expanding beyond the previous creation date-only option. Secrets Manager is a fully managed service that helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.5 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL Innovation Release 9.5 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 9.5 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment which provides the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch extends automatic telemetry configuration to six critical AWS services
Amazon CloudWatch now allows customers to automatically configure telemetry across their AWS Organization for six critical AWS services: AWS CloudTrail Management Events, AWS CloudTrail Data Events, Amazon Route 53 Resource Query Logs, Amazon EKS Control Plane logs, Network Load Balancer access logs, and AWS WAF WebACL Logs. This enhancement to CloudWatch enablement rules helps organizations […]
AWS – AWS Transform enables network conversion for hybrid data center migrations
AWS Transform now supports automatic network conversion from hybrid data centers, eliminating manual network mapping for environments running both VMware and non-VMware workloads. The service now analyzes VLANs and IP ranges across all exported source networks and maps these to AWS constructs like Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, and security groups. AWS Transform for VMware […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift supports four new materialized view (MV) features on data shares
Amazon Redshift now allows you to run create MV and refresh MV commands from multiple Amazon Redshift data warehouses. This update also allows you to create an MV on shared MVs. Finally, this release now supports concurrency scaling of the create materialized view (MV) data definition language (DDL) command. With this update, you can now […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser enables branding customization
Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports branding customization, enabling you to create a consistent, branded experience that helps you align with your organization’s visual identity. This feature allows you to customize the sign-in and session loading screens that appear to your end users by modifying visual elements and text content to maintain brand consistency across […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud now supports direct job submission from the Deadline Cloud Monitor
AWS Deadline Cloud now lets you submit rendering jobs directly from the Deadline Cloud Monitor desktop application. This new feature makes it easier to submit renders for applications that don’t have built-in Deadline Cloud plugins or submission scripts, expanding compatibility with content creation tools and streamlining your rendering workflows. Previously, you needed the command line […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports IPv6 for WebRTC
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (Amazon KVS) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing for WebRTC. This release introduces dual-stack endpoint support, enabling developers to use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to stream video from millions of devices. The dual-stack support is designed to ensure that existing IPv4 implementations continue to work reliably while gaining […]
AWS – Amazon ECS Service Connect enhances observability with Envoy Access Logs
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect now supports Envoy access logs, providing deeper observability into request-level traffic patterns and service interactions. This new capability captures detailed per-request telemetry for end-to-end tracing, debugging, and compliance monitoring. Amazon ECS Service Connect makes it simple to build secure, resilient service-to-service communication across clusters, VPCs, and AWS […]
