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AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge) of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Canada (Central) regions. Additionally, High Memory instances with 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in Canada (Central) region and High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family now supports post-upload processing of partially uploaded files
AWS Transfer Family now supports post-upload processing of partially uploaded files using managed workflows, offering customers even more control in defining and executing file-processing steps for both complete and incomplete file uploads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Managed Microsoft AD is now available on Windows Server 2019
Starting today, all new AWS Directory Service for Microsoft AD (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) directories run on Windows Server 2019. For current customers with existing directories, you can simply update with just a few clicks or programmatically via API. With this feature, you can initiate updates for existing directories when it’s most convenient, avoiding peak […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 adds Service Quotas for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
Starting today, we are adding service quotas for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). You will now see three new quotas in the EC2 section on the Service Quotas console page. The first quota is for the total number of AMIs within your AWS account, the second quota is for the total number of public AMIs within […]

GCP – All 123 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘22
We loved hosting Google Cloud Next ‘22 this week in cities around the world and are excited to share our favorite moments and announcements. We kicked off our 24-hour livestream broadcast with an opening keynote in New York City, then moved west to share our “Top 10 Cloud Predictions” developer keynote from the Google Cloud […]

AWS – AWS Glue introduces Git integration
AWS Glue now offers integration with Git, the widely-used open source version control system. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that uses reusable jobs to perform extract, transform, and load (ETL) tasks on data sets of nearly any scale. With this feature, customers can use GitHub and AWS CodeCommit to maintain a history of changes […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 14.4 version
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, AWS has updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.4. PostgreSQL 14.4 fixes an issue that could cause silent data corruption when using the CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY commands. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Predictive Scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. To see the list of all […]

AWS – AWS Cloud Map is available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region
AWS Cloud Map is now available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. 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, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports event filtering for Amazon MSK, Self-Manged Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources
AWS Lambda now supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ. With event pattern content filtering, customers can write complex rules so that their Lambda function is only invoked to process meaningful events. This helps reduce traffic to customers’ Lambda functions, simplifies code, and […]