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AWS – Amazon QuickSight enables role-based access control to data sources that connect to Amazon S3 and Athena
Amazon QuickSight now enables you to add role-based access policies to QuickSight data sources that connect to Amazon S3 and Amazon Athena. With this launch of the Run-as IAM Role for S3 and Athena, QuickSight account administrators will be able to provide an IAM Role to individual S3 or Athena data sources in their QuickSight […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are available in additional AWS Region Europe (Stockholm). These instances are optimized to efficiently run memory bandwidth-bound, data-intensive high performance computing (HPC) workloads, such as finite element analysis and seismic reservoir simulations. With EC2 Hpc6id instances, you can lower the cost of your HPC workloads while taking advantage of […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family announces AWS CloudFormation support and enhanced monitoring capabilities for AS2
You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage AWS Transfer Family resources for AS2 including servers, connectors, partner profiles, and certificates. AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to configure the entire stack of AS2 resources required to initiate and test an end-to-end AS2 message exchange. Additionally, you can now access Amazon CloudWatch metrics […]

AWS – Amazon Detective adds the ability to export data from Summary page panels and search results
Amazon Detective now supports the ability to export data from Summary page panels and search results in comma-separated values (CSV) format. You can use this new capability to export data from the Detective management console and enrich your security investigations by manipulating the data using other AWS services, third-party applications, or spreadsheet programs that support […]

AWS – AWS App Runner now supports HTTP to HTTPS redirect
AWS App Runner now redirects incoming HTTP based requests to an App Runner service endpoint to HTTPS. Until now, incoming requests to an HTTP endpoint failed with timeout status response. Now, you can use both HTTP and HTTPS endpoints from your client to access your application running on App Runner. App Runner will redirect the […]

AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.25
Kubernetes 1.25 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.25. Starting today, you can create new 1.25 clusters or upgrade your existing clusters to 1.25 using the Amazon EKS console, the eksctl command line […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS increases the number of provisioning tasks quota to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) has increased the “Tasks in PROVISIONING state per cluster“ service quota to deliver a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience. Customers who need to launch a large number of tasks (>300) in their Amazon ECS clusters will now see their cluster infrastructure scale faster. Read More for the details.

GCP – Building streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud
Many customers build streaming data pipelines to ingest, process and then store data for later analysis. We’ll focus on a common pipeline design shown below. It consists of three steps: Data sources send messages with data to a Pub/Sub topic. Pub/Sub buffers the messages and forwards them to a processing component. After processing, the processing […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.