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Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports Graphics G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and Intel Xeon 6 processors. G7 instances deliver up to 2.1X better performance…
Try Google Antigravity → https://g.dev/cloud/antigravity-homepage Explore Google Skills on GitHub → https://goo.gle/3UN4MWQ What exactly is an agent harness, and why is it the secret to fully autonomous coding? If your…
Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 spec, along with column default values, deletion vectors, and row lineage. Upgrade existing V2 tables or create new V3 tables with built-in…
AWS today announced the general availability of AMD-based R8a and M8a database instances for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS, powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors. R8a is a memory-optimized instance family…
Today, AWS announces system-managed materialized views for Apache Iceberg. Materialized views let you precompute an expensive query once and reuse the result across engines. Because this result is an open Iceberg table…
Today, AWS expanded the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) commands for the Agent Toolkit for AWS with two new capabilities that make it easier to keep agent skills up to date. Customers can now run aws agent-toolkit…
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports metadata pre filtering, delivering up to 5x higher recall on filtered searches. Filters evaluate before similarity search so scoped queries return more relevant results. Ideal for RAG,…
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports pre-filtering, which evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective. S3 Vectors also adds a…
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating new workspaces with Grafana version 13.2. This release brings features from open-source Grafana versions 13.0 to 13.2, including Git Sync for dashboards, dynamic dashboards,…
Today, AWS announces the availability of UltraFast mode for GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Ultrafast is a premium speed tier for GPT-6 Astra built for workloads where speed matters most. According to OpenAI,…
AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports scaling logs, which record how AWS PCS scales the compute node groups in your cluster. Each log entry records one state transition for one compute node—for example,…
Amazon Aurora serverless now scales in even larger steps, adding up to 16 ACUs to its current capacity within a second and continuing to scale up to 256 ACUs as your workload grows. With this launch, your workload will…
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this…
Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving…
Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads. Each vCPU in R8a database instances corresponds…
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support M8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads. Each vCPU in M8a database…
We're excited to announce in-region support for Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock in the UK (London) Region. Customers who need to process data within the United Kingdom, including those…
Replication lag during a change data capture (CDC) migration can be counterintuitive: the source is busy, yet replication falls behind and WAL piles up. This post shows how to resolve PostgreSQL replication lag with…
Learn how to use AWS DMS and a Db2 gateway server on Amazon EC2 to migrate and replicate data from an on-premises IBM Db2 database on z/OS to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. This post covers configuring the gateway, creating…
AWS Continuum for Penetration Testing now available in 6 additional Regions AWS Continuum for Penetration Testing (AWS Security Agent) is a managed security service that enables AWS customers to conduct penetration…