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AWS – Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports single-node clusters on bare metal
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere single-node clusters on bare metal. With single-node Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters, the cluster management components run alongside your applications on a single bare metal server. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) 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 Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Osaka). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS Anywhere now supports cluster lifecycle automation with GitOps and IaC tools like Terraform
We are excited to announce support for full cluster lifecycle automation through GitOps or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform for Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A). Previously, the only mechanism for customers to perform full EKS-A cluster lifecycle operations such as provisioning, updates, and deletion was by using an Amazon command-line-interface (CLI) tool “eksctl”. Now, […]

AWS – AWS announces Amazon EKS Anywhere on Nutanix
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Nutanix with AHV Virtualization, which expands the choice of infrastructure options for customers running Kubernetes on-premises. Nutanix enhances the list of deployment options for Amazon EKS Anywhere customers, which already includes bare metal servers, VMware vSphere, and Apache […]

GCP – Document AI adds three new capabilities to its OCR engine
Documents are indispensable parts of our professional and personal lives. They give us crucial insights that help us become more efficient, that organize and optimize information, and that even help us to stay competitive. But as documents become increasingly complex, and as the variety of document types continues to expand, it has become increasingly challenging […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in 22 regions, including Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan). Read More for the details.

AWS – PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
PartiQL—a SQL-compatible query language—for Amazon DynamoDB is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports speech to text in 2 new languages: Swedish and Vietnamese
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports batch transcription in two new languages – Swedish and Vietnamese. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports X2iedn instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS now supports X2iedn DB instances for RDS for MySQL and on RDS for PostgreSQL. The X2iedn instances are ideal for read-intensive and high throughput write workloads. X2iedn instances support recently announced features such as Amazon RDS Optimized Writes and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys posts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Amazon Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances in four additional regions
We are excited to announce support for the Amazon Graviton2 instance family in four additional regions. Supported instance types include general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g and R6GD) instances. Support for C6g, M6g, R6g and R6gd is available in the Europe (Paris) region. In addition, the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America […]