Category: Amazon RDS

This week’s roundup covers launches across compute, networking, security, and AI. Amazon EC2 introduces new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. AWS Network Firewall announces price reductions. Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts for improved resiliency and workload isolation.

On the security front, AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple, AWS STS adds validation for identity provider claims and Amazon CloudFront introduces mutual TLS support for origins to enforce certificate-based authentication. For AI, Claude Opus 4.6—Anthropic’s most intelligent model—is now available in Amazon Bedrock, bringing industry-leading performance for agentic tasks and complex coding projects. Amazon Bedrock also adds structured outputs for consistent, machine-readable responses that adhere to your defined JSON schemas.

Manage development, testing, and production database workloads more efficiently with new features including Developer Edition support for SQL Server, M7i/R7i instance support with optimize CPU, and expanded storage options up to 256 TiB.

This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]

Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge, where developers can meet, discuss ideas, enjoy lightning talks, win SWAGs at AWS Builder ID Prize Wheel, take a challenge at Amazon Q Developer Coding Challenge, or learn Generative AI at […]

AWS DMS Schema Conversion converts up to 90% of your schema to accelerate your database migrations and reduce manual effort with the power of generative AI.

AWS Console-to-Code generates reusable infrastructure as code from your AWS console actions, supporting Amazon EC2, RDS, and VPC. With a few clicks, get CloudFormation, CDK (TypeScript, Python, Java), or CLI code – a game-changer for streamlining cloud automation workflows.

Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news announcements of the week […]

Near real-time data replication: RDS for MySQL zero-ETL with Redshift streamlines data ingestion with filtering, multiple integrations, and CloudFormation support for customized insights without managing complex pipelines.