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AWS – Announcing custom payment schedules for AWS Marketplace Channel Partner private offers
AWS Marketplace now supports custom payment schedules for private offers, giving Channel Partners the ability to add margins on private offers with installment plans. Channel Partners can now adjust each scheduled payment individually, either through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal or the AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Previously, Channel Partners could only apply a uniform percentage […]

AWS – Amazon FSx now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on FSx Service APIs
Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the Amazon FSx Service APIs. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 […]

GCP – BigQuery datasets now available on Google Cloud Marketplace
We are excited to announce the availability of datasets on Google Cloud Marketplace through BigQuery Analytics Hub, opening up new avenues for organizations to power innovative analytics use cases and procure data for enterprise business needs. As a centralized procurement platform, Google Cloud Marketplace offers access to a wide array of enterprise applications, foundational AI […]

AWS – AWS WAF Console adds new top insights visualizations in additional regions
AWS WAF’s console dashboard now includes richer visualizations that give you insights into the top sources of traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US). With this feature, customers with CloudWatch logging destinations can view a new top insights section within the all traffic dashboard. Customers previously used the all traffic dashboard, a default dashboard that populates […]

AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now offers improved error messages and AWS CloudTrail logging for provisioning issues
AWS IAM Identity Center now provides improved error messages to simplify troubleshooting when syncing users and groups. You can also build automated monitoring and auditing for these errors using the AWS CloudTrail logs. IAM Identity Center helps you securely connect your workforce identities and manage their access centrally across AWS accounts and applications. With improved […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports delivering logs to Amazon S3 and Amazon Data Firehose, in addition to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Additionally, customers now receive 50 KB of MediaTailor logs per ad inserted (50,000 KB per 1,000 ads inserted) for free when delivering to supported destinations. Customers delivering MediaTailor logs to CloudWatch logs benefit from advanced […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2025 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the January 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, […]

AWS – Amazon MSK expands Express Brokers to 10 more AWS Regions
Amazon MSK has added support for Express brokers in all AWS Regions where Amazon MSK offers Graviton3 based M7g instances. You can now benefit from Amazon MSK Express brokers in ten additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (London), Canada […]

AWS – Cost Optimization Hub supports more EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations
Cost Optimization Hub now supports idle EC2 Auto Scaling group recommendations and rightsizing recommendations for EC2 Auto Scaling groups with scaling policies and multiple instance types. It also allows you to easily filter and aggregate EC2 Auto Scaling group cost optimization opportunities separately from standalone EC2 instances, making it easier to identify EC2 Auto Scaling groups […]
AWS – AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code now supports Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) now includes Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). This integration allows customers to use VS Code to view, create and manage Amazon DocumentDB resources. To get started, you can download the latest AWS-Toolkit extension from VSCode marketplace or update your AWS-Toolkit extension if you already have it installed in […]