Amazon Athena has updated its data source connectors with new optimizations that can improve performance and reduce cost when querying data that does not reside in Amazon S3. Available today, the updated connectors use dynamic filtering and new predicate push down optimizations to perform more operations in the underlying data source, rather than in Athena, which […]

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis data tiering on Graviton2-based R6gd nodes now supports auto scaling to automatically adjust capacity to maintain steady and predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your cluster horizontally by adding or removing shards or replica nodes. ElastiCache for Redis data tiering uses AWS Application Auto Scaling to […]

Today, AWS released new version 1.28 of AWS Copilot with support of a new Static Site pattern, that makes it easier to deploy single page web applications on AWS. AWS Copilot is a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easier for customers to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications on AWS by providing common application […]

AWS Compute Optimizer now supports external performance metrics from 4 observability partners: Datadog, Dynatrace, Instana, and New Relic in 5 additional regions – Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan).  Read More for the details.

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides the capability to fine-tune a large language model, particularly a text generation model on a domain-specific data set. Customers can now fine-tune models with their custom data set to improve performance in specific domains. For example, this blog describes how to use domain adaption to fine tune a GPT-J […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. […]

Amazon Cognito now offers a new console experience that makes it even easier for customers to manage Amazon Cognito identity pools and add federated sign in for customers’ applications to get access to AWS resources. Customers that wish to opt in to the new, streamlined experience can do so by navigating to the Amazon Cognito […]