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AWS – SageMaker JumpStart now provides Stable Diffusion and Bloom models
Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides two additional state-of-the-art foundational models, Bloom for text generation and Stable Diffusion for image generation. Customers can access newly added models through the SageMaker Python SDK APIs and SageMaker JumpStart UI inside SageMaker Studio. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page. Read […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.31
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 8.0.31. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS AppConfig achieves FedRAMP High Authority To Operate
AWS AppConfig, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, has achieved FedRAMP High authority to operate in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. You can now use AWS AppConfig to more quickly and safely update software, and build applications for workloads that require FedRAMP High authorization. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in 20 regions, including Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (Bahrain)
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (Bahrain). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SNS increases the default quota for subscription filter policies by 50x to 10,000 per account
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports a higher default quota for subscription filter policies. With the increased quota, you can now have up to 10,000 subscription filter policies per account, and can apply up to 200 subscription filter policies per topic. By default, topic subscribers receive every message published to a topic. With […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to seamlessly migrate to WSP protocol
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers an API to quickly modify the streaming protocol on your existing WorkSpaces without requiring you to go through migrate WorkSpace process. This feature will allow you to retain the root volumes after you switch your WorkSpaces streaming protocol from PC-over-IP (PCoIP) to WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP) or vice-versa. End users of […]

AWS – AWS Lambda announces Telemetry API, further enriching monitoring and observability capabilities of Lambda Extensions
AWS Lambda now enables Lambda Extensions to collect enhanced monitoring and observability data about your function execution through the new AWS Lambda Telemetry API. The Telemetry API provides a simple interface for extensions to receive logs, platform traces, and function invocation-level metrics directly from Lambda. Today, you can benefit from these enhanced capabilities by utilizing […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, and 11.17 versions and logical replication cache
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, and 11.17. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 2.2. Refer to the Aurora version […]
Azure – Public preview: Upgrade from Azure Front Door Standard to Premium tier
You can now use this feature to upgrade your Azure Front Door Standard profile to Premium tier without downtime. Read More for the details.