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AWS – Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in 10 additional AWS regions
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), Mexico (Central) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. With the Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling feature, you can now support thousands of concurrent […]
GCP – Accelerating cloud migrations to Google Cloud with Searce to drive profitable growth
As companies transition past legacy infrastructure and set themselves up for growth in AI, multi-cloud, and platform engineering requirements, many are looking to Google Cloud for its reliability, performance, and cost benefits. To achieve successful migrations, especially at the enterprise level, organizations need a seasoned partner with a deep understanding of platform modernization, automation, and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore). The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall enhances application layer traffic controls
AWS Network Firewall, a managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for your Amazon VPCs, now provides enhanced default rules to handle TLS client hellos, and HTTP requests split across multiple packets. This update introduces new application layer drop and alert established default stateful actions, enabling customers to maintain security controls […]
AWS – Research and Engineering Studio on AWS 2025.09 is now available
Today we’re announcing Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS 2025.09, which brings support for fractional GPUs, simplified AMI management, and enhanced deployment flexibility. This release also expands regional availability to include four additional AWS commercial Regions. Research and Engineering Studio on AWS is an open source solution that provides a web-based portal for administrators […]
AWS – Billing View now supports cost management data from multiple organizations
Today, AWS announces the general availability of new capabilities within AWS Billing and Cost Management that enable customers to manage their AWS spend across multiple organizations through a single AWS account. Customers can now share custom billing views containing cost management data with other AWS accounts outside their organization. Additionally, customers can combine multiple custom […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports resource tags when monitoring vended metrics
Today, Amazon CloudWatch announces support for a new tag-based telemetry experience to help customers monitor their metrics and set up their alarms using AWS resources tags. This new capability simplifies monitoring cloud infrastructure at scale by automatically adapting alarms and metrics analysis as resources change. DevOps engineers and cloud administrators can now create dynamic monitoring […]
GCP – GPUs when you need them: Introducing Flex-start VMs
Innovating with AI requires accelerators such as GPUs that can be hard to come by in times of extreme demand. To address this challenge, we offer Dynamic Workload Scheduler (DWS), a service that optimizes access to compute resources when and where you need them. In July, we announced Calendar mode in DWS to provide short-term […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 18.0 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18.0 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest PostgreSQL features while leveraging the benefits of a fully managed database service. This preview environment provides you a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new PostgreSQL 18.0 capabilities before they become generally […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Allowed AMIs setting adds new parameters for enhanced AMI governance
Allowed AMIs, the Amazon EC2 account-wide setting that enables you to limit the discovery and use of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) within your Amazon Web Services accounts, adds support for four new parameters — marketplace codes, deprecation time, creation date and AMI names. Previously, you could specify accounts or owner aliases that you trust in […]