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AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports instance refresh for standby and scale-in protected EC2 instances
Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of instance refresh to support instances on standby or protected from scale in. For instances on standby, you now have the options to terminate them, ignore them altogether, as well as the current option to wait until they return to in service. For protected instances, you now […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh now supports rollback
Today, we are excited to announce the ability to roll back an EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh feature allows you to replace instances in an Auto Scaling group on a rolling basis. With today’s launch, you can use rollback to undo changes an instance refresh made when it fails. Read […]

AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports large worker sizes to run more compute or memory intensive workloads
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. An EMR Serverless application internally uses workers to execute your workloads and you can configure different worker configurations based on the […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now automates deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation and SAP S/4HANA 2022
AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of SAP S/4HANA Foundation applications, and SAP S/4HANA 2022. This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA 2020 and 2021. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Region Europe (Zurich). X2idn instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in price performance compared to previous generation X1 instances. The X2idn instance is built on the […]

AWS – AWS Cloud Map increases default limit
AWS Cloud Map increases default limit of service instances that can be registered in a namespace with API calls discovery from 2,000 to 20,000. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M6i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6i instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Jakarta). These instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect expands support for event notifications in Amazon EventBridge
AWS Elemental MediaConnect has expanded the availability of event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. You can now see notifications for flow, source, and output state changes to more closely monitor your live broadcast operations. You can also use EventBridge to build event-driven applications to correct issues that may be impacting your MediaConnect flows. Read More for the […]

AWS – Announcing Network of Bots for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex introduces Network of Bots that enables enterprises to deliver a unified user-experience across multiple bots present in […]
AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new AWS regions
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now access Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) AWS regions in the Console Mobile App. Read More for the details.