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Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high performance S3 storage class for latency-sensitive applications, now supports request metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can use request metrics to track performance and monitor the operational health of applications that use S3 Express One Zone. In addition to existing storage metrics, you can now use request metrics to monitor request counts, data transfer volumes, error rates, and latency measurements at minute-level granularity. These request metrics are available through the CloudWatch console, S3 console, S3 API, and AWS CLI.  CloudWatch request metrics for S3 Express One Zone are available in all  AWS Regions where the storage class is available . For pricing information, visit the  CloudWatch pricing page . To learn more, visit the  S3 Express One Zone overview page  and  documentation . Post Updated...

AWS HealthOmics announces VPC-connected workflows, giving customers the ability to run bioinformatics pipelines that access AWS resources across regions and public internet resources through a customer’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). With this launch, life sciences customers no longer need to migrate their data and dependencies to the same AWS Region as their workflow before running analyses. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps accelerate scientific breakthroughs at scale with fully managed bioinformatics workflows. This launch enables life sciences customers to develop and test bioinformatics workflows more quickly. Customers can design workflows that access publicly-hosted data sets as well as AWS resources in different regions without making changes to the workflow code or migrating data between regions. Customers can use new Configuration APIs to specify a VPC configured to access public internet resources to which HealthOmics can send and receive network traffi...

Amazon Athena now offers Capacity Reservations in additional commercial AWS Regions. Capacity Reservations give you dedicated serverless capacity for your most important workloads. When you use Capacity Reservations, your queries run in isolation from other workloads in your account, and you control how many queries run concurrently. Capacity Reservations is now available in US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Zurich), and Mexico (Central). To learn more, see Manage query processing capacity in the Athena User Guide. Post Updated on March 30, 2026 at 08:30PM

AWS Elemental MediaTailor is now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region. MediaTailor is a personalized ad insertion and channel assembly service that enables video providers to serve targeted ads in live and on-demand video streams using server-side ad insertion (SSAI) and Server Guided Ad Insertion (SGAI), delivering a broadcast-quality viewing experience without the buffering or ad blockers associated with client-side ad insertion. With this expansion, customers serving viewers in Northern Europe can now run ad insertion workloads closer to their audience, reducing ad decisioning latency and improving ad fill rates. Customers using SSAI or SGAI workflows benefit from lower-latency ad stitching and ad tracking closer to their European viewers, and customers already using MediaTailor in Europe (Ireland) gain an additional region for redundancy and increased capacity. To learn more, visit the AWS Elemental MediaTailor product page or the AWS Elemental MediaTailor User Guide...

A customer wanted to know the maximum number of values that can be stored in a single registry key. They found that they ran into problems when they reached a certain number of values, which was well over a quarter million. Okay, wait a second. Why are you adding over a quarter million values to a registry key!? The customer explained that they mark every file in their installer as msidb­Component­Attributes­Shared­Dll­Ref­Count , to avoid the problem described in the documentation . And when I said every file, I really meant every file . Not just DLLs, but also text files, GIFs, XML files, everything. Just the names of the keys adds up to over 30 megabytes. Since their product supports multiple versions installed side-by-side, installing multiple versions of their product accumulates values in the HKEY_ LOCAL_ MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ SharedDLLs registry key. The customer saw the story about problems if you forget to mark a shared file as msidb­Compo...

Amazon OpenSearch Service extends access to Cluster Insights through the AWS Management Console, in addition to the existing OpenSearch UI Dashboards. This launch makes it easier to review performance and resilience recommendations and make necessary configuration changes, all within the same Console. In addition, Cluster Insights now publishes insights as events to Amazon EventBridge. Cluster insights presents curated insights of a cluster’s operational health along with actionable recommendations to help prevent issues before they affect the stability or performance of the cluster. You can continue to use OpenSearch UI Dashboards for more detailed metrics, including index and shard-level data and top-N query analysis. In addition, with this release, you can monitor insights through Amazon EventBridge events. Cluster Insights is available at no additional cost for OpenSearch versions 2.17 or later in all Regions where OpenSearch Service is available. View the complete list of supp...

In this post, we explore how to write Azure service-related unit tests for Spring Boot projects using Docker and Spring Cloud Azure. What is Spring Cloud Azure? Spring Cloud Azure is an open-source project that makes it easier to use Azure services in Spring applications. For more information about this topic, see the user guide . Why use Docker for unit testing? Using Docker for unit testing provides an easy way to test Azure-related features without provisioning real Azure resources. It helps you quickly verify your code changes locally and ensures that your application works as expected before deploying to Azure. Examples Azure Storage Blob Using Docker Compose Add the following dependency to your pom.xml file: <properties> <version.spring.cloud.azure>7.1.0</version.spring.cloud.azure> </properties> <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.azure.spring</groupId> ...

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API. Starting today, customers can use Palmyra Vision 7B from Writer on Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI applications that interpret and generate text from images. With Palmyra Vision 7B on Bedrock, customers can build generative AI applications for visual understanding tasks without managing inference infrastructure. The model has been trained on PixMo, a dataset of 1 million high-quality image-text pairs, and excels in visual question answering and image-text comprehension for enterprise applications. It enables visual understanding tasks such as document analysis, chart interpretation, and image-based question answering. Palmyra Vision 7B can extract handwritten text, classify objects and colors, interpret plots and dashboards, and answer natural-language questions about image content. Typical applications include accessibility fea...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS regions. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation Graviton2-based storage optimized Amazon EC2 instances. I8ge instances use the third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that delivers up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB. They offer up to 60% lower storage I/O latency and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to previous generation Im4gn instances. I8ge instances are storage-optimized instances offering up to 120TB of locally attached NVMe storage. They are ideal for workloads that demand rapid local storage with high random read/write performance and consistently low latency for accessing large datasets. These versatile instances are offer...

AWS HealthImaging now supports fine-grained access control, enabling organizations to securely manage access to medical imaging data at the DICOM study and series levels. Medical imaging workflows are typically organized around DICOM studies, which are stored in AWS HealthImaging as one or more image set resources. Now customers can easily grant users access to all image sets for a set of DICOM Studies or Series with easy-to-maintain IAM policies. Customers can now grant permissions for DICOMweb APIs using DICOM Study Instance UIDs and Series Instance UIDs directly in their IAM policies, eliminating the need to list individual image set ARNs. Customers can now create dynamic, temporary access grants using AWS Security Token Service (STS) session policies with low-latency authentication. This capability provides enhanced protection for Protected Health Information (PHI) by scoping access grants to specific Studies or Series rather than entire data stores. This launch better supports us...

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) and U7i-12TB instances (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Milan). U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7i-12tb instances offer 12TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-8tb instances deliver 448 vCPUs; U7i-12tb instances deliver 896 vCPUs. Both instances support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the  High Memory instances page . Post Updated on March 26, 2026 at 10:30PM

Starting today, customers can deploy their Graviton-based and GPU-accelerated workloads on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances in a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) compliant mode in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. FIPS is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. In the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, Amazon ECS Managed Instances automatically enable FIPS compliance by default. ECS Managed Instances communicate through FIPS-compliant endpoints, use appropriately configured cryptographic modules, and boot the underlying kernel in FIPS mode. Customers with federal compliance requirements can run workloads with FIPS-validated cryptographic modules across a broad range of instance types, including Graviton-based, GPU-accelerated, network-optimized, and burstable performance instances. To learn more about FIPS, refer to  FIPS on AWS and AWS Fargate...

Aspire 13.2 brings TypeScript AppHost support to the same application model that existing Aspire users already know. You still define resources, references, startup dependencies, endpoints, and deployment intent in code. You still get the same dashboard, service discovery behavior, health checks, and deployment artifacts. The difference is the authoring surface: you can now write the AppHost in TypeScript and run it with Node.js. This makes Aspire a natural fit for TypeScript developers. Teams that already live in JavaScript and TypeScript can adopt Aspire without moving AppHost authoring into C#. Prerequisites Node.js 20 or later — runtime for the TypeScript AppHost An OCI-compatible container runtime — Docker Desktop or Podman Aspire CLI — installed via the commands below The .NET 10 SDK is only required when the AppHost is written in C# or when the application graph includes .NET projects Get started in a few commands Install the Aspire CLI, then verify the installa...

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion with GenAI is now available in nine additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney), Europe (Ireland, London, Stockholm, Paris), Canada (Central) and US East (Ohio). This feature leverages Amazon Bedrock foundation models—including Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Claude Sonnet 4—to automate database schema and code conversion, helping organizations accelerate their database modernization initiatives. The regional expansion enables customers to process their migration workloads locally, reducing latency and supporting data residency requirements. DMS Schema Conversion with GenAI automatically converts database schemas and code from Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Sybase to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. By automating the conversion process, the service significantly reduces manual effort and accelerates migration project timelines, enabling database adm...

The landscape of AI development has evolved dramatically. Modern intelligent agents require real-time web access to provide accurate, grounded responses. With the retirement of direct Bing Search API access , developers must transition from direct API integration to agent-based architectures. This article explores how to implement a robust search solution by orchestrating a communication channel between a Semantic Kernel agent and an Azure AI Foundry agent using the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. The Challenge The deprecation of raw Bing Search API endpoints necessitates a new integration pattern. Currently, Bing Grounding capabilities are encapsulated within Azure AI Foundry agents. This creates a service boundary where external agents—such as those built with Semantic Kernel or LangChain—cannot directly invoke Bing search capabilities as a standalone tool. Instead of a direct API call, search functionality must be consumed through an intermediary agent hosted within the Azure AI Fo...