Amazon Web Services (AWS) is thrilled to announce the new Amazon EKS Service Delivery specialization to highlight AWS Partners with consulting offerings that have demonstrated proven capabilities to architect, run, and operate containerized workloads on Amazon EKS. Amazon EKS Delivery partners play a crucial role in the customer journey as customers navigate modernization of legacy […]

AWS Cloud Control API has expanded its availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Cloud Control API is a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) that is designed to make it easy for developers to manage their cloud infrastructure in a consistent manner and leverage the latest AWS capabilities faster. Using Cloud Control […]

Amazon QuickSight launches new capability for account administrators to use Customer Managed Keys (CMK) to encrypt and manage SPICE datasets. Previously, QuickSight fully manages the protection of customer-data stored inside of the QuickSight service. Using the new Customer Managed Keys (CMK) capability will benefit QuickSight users to 1/ be able to revoke access to SPICE datasets with […]

Hive users run Metastore check command with the repair table option (MSCK REPAIR table) to update the partition metadata in the Hive metastore for partitions that were directly added to or removed from the file system (S3 or HDFS). When run, MSCK repair command must make a file system call to check if the partition […]

Amazon Redshift introduces a new way to work on multiple SQL queries by organizing them into a single Notebook with documentation, visualization, and collaboration capabilities. The new SQL Notebook interface available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor v2 allows users such as data analysts and data scientists to run data analytics more efficiently by keeping relevant queries […]

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R5b instance types for Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model, featuring up to 4x the RAM per vCPU of existing R5b instance classes to better fit your workloads. Many Oracle database workloads require high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth but can safely reduce the number of vCPUs […]

We are excited to announce the general availability of i4i.metal instance for VMware Cloud on AWS. Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, i4i.metal instance is powered by 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Ice Lake processor with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over i3 instances. This new […]

AWS Local Zones are now available in Hamburg and Warsaw—the first AWS Local Zones launch in Europe. You can now use AWS Local Zones in these metro areas to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Read More for the details.