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AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports predictive scaling in six more regions
Customers can now enable predictive scaling for their Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) in six more regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). Predictive Scaling can proactively scale out your ASGs to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
With this launch, Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. VPC Reachability Analyzer allows you to diagnose network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) by analyzing your network configurations. For […]
AWS – Aurora DSQL now supports resource-based policies
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports resource-based policies, enabling you to simplify access control for your Aurora DSQL resources. With resource-based policies, you can specify Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals and the specific IAM actions they can perform against your Aurora DSQL resources. Resource-based policies also enable you to implement Block Public Access (BPA), which […]
GCP – 5 ad agencies used Gemini 2.5 Pro and gen media models to create an “impossible ad”
The conversation around generative AI in the enterprise is getting creative. Since launching our popular Nano Banana model, consumers have created 13 billion images and 230 million videos1. Enterprises can combine Gemini 2.5 Pro with our generative media models – Lyria, Chirp, Imagen, and Veo – to bring their ideas to life. To us, generative […]
GCP – How the Max Planck Institute is sharing expert skills through multimodal agents
Effective monitoring and treatment of complex diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease depends on understanding the underlying biological processes, for which proteins are essential. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is a powerful method for studying these proteins in a fast and global manner. Yet the widespread adoption of this technique remains constrained by technical complexity as mastering […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family now supports changing identity provider type on a server
AWS Transfer Family now enables you to change your server’s identity provider (IdP) type without service interruption. This enhancement gives you more control and flexibility over authentication management in your file transfer workflows, enabling you to adapt quickly to changing business requirements. AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers over SFTP, FTP, FTPS, AS2, […]
AWS – New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance
Today, Amazon announced two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics that provide insight into when your application exceeds the I/O performance limits for your EC2 instance with attached EBS volumes. These two metrics, Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check, monitor if the driven IOPS or throughput is exceeding the maximum EBS IOPS […]
AWS – AWS Lambda increases maximum payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB for asynchronous invocations
AWS Lambda increases asynchronous invocations maximum payload size from 256 KB to 1 MB, allowing customers to ingest richer, complex payloads for their event-driven workloads without the need to split, compress, or externalize data. Customers invoke their Lambda functions asynchronously using either Lambda API directly, or by receiving push-based events from various AWS services like […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio supports Amazon Athena workgroups
Data engineers and data analysts using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio can now connect to and run queries with pre-existing Amazon Athena workgroups. This feature enables data teams to run SQL queries in SageMaker Unified Studio with the default settings and properties from existing Athena workgroups. Since Athena workgroups are used to manage query access and […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides granular permissions for conversation recordings and transcripts
Amazon Connect now provides granular permissions to access conversation recordings and transcripts in the UI, giving administrators greater flexibility and security control. Contact center administrators can now separately configure access to recordings and transcripts, allowing users to listen to calls while preventing unauthorized copying of transcripts. The system also provides flexible download controls, enabling users […]