Tag: SysAdmin

Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in three additional AWS Regions - US-East-2 (Ohio), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), and AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo). Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to access database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) managed Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers. With this launch, customers in the EU and Japan with in-region data residency requirements can easily migrate on-premises Oracle Exadata applications to AWS. With this expansion, AWS customers can run OCI Exadata Database Service, OCI Autonomous Database on Dedicated Infrastructure, and OCI Autonomous Recovery Service in five Regions - US-East-1 (N.Virginia), US-West-2 (Oregon), US-East-2 (Ohio), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), and AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo). To use these services, request a private offer from Oracle through the AWS Marketplace, and

Amazon Bedrock now supports NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B model, NVIDIA's latest breakthrough in efficient language modeling that delivers high reasoning performance, native tool calling support, and extended context processing with 256k token context window. This model employs an efficient hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture to ensure higher throughput than its predecessors for agentic and coding workloads, while maintaining the reasoning depth of a larger model. With explicit reasoning controls and higher accuracy enabled by advanced reinforcement learning techniques and multi-environment post-training at scale, this model is ideal for enterprises, startups, and individual developers building multi-agent workflows, developer productivity tools, processes automation, and for scientific and mathematical reasoning analysis, amongst others. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano on Amazon Bedrock is powered by Project Mantle, a new distributed inference engine for large-scale machi

Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) redirection, allowing users to authenticate to websites using their local FIDO2 security keys, biometric authenticators, and platform authenticators while browsing in their WorkSpaces Secure Browser session. This feature is compatible with Chromium-based browser on users’ local devices, such as Google Chrome 136 (or later) or Microsoft Edge 137 (or later). It is not supported on non-Chromium-based browsers such as Safari or Firefox. WebAuthn redirection helps users enjoy seamless and secure authentication on websites within their WorkSpaces Secure Browser sessions. This feature supports FIDO2 security keys, passkeys, and platform authenticators like Windows Hello or Touch ID. To enable the feature, administrators must activate WebAuthn redirection in Secure browser’s portal settings and configure the local browsers using the WebAuthenticationRemoteDesktopAllowedOrigins policy. This configuration

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. Customers can create Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters in this region starting today. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to more quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you spend more time building innovative streaming applications and less time managing Kafka clusters. Amazon MSK offers two types of Apache Kafka provisioned broker - Standard brokers and Express brokers. Standard brokers offer the most flexibility to configure your cluster’s performance. You can configure availability,

MiniMax-M2 is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, providing customers with immediate access to deploy this efficient open-source model in minutes. With SageMaker JumpStart, you can quickly discover, evaluate, and deploy MiniMax-M2 using either SageMaker Studio's intuitive interface or the SageMaker Python SDK for programmatic deployment. MiniMax-M2 redefines efficiency for agents. It's a compact, fast, and cost-effective MoE model (230 billion total parameters with 10 billion active parameters) built for elite performance in coding and agentic tasks, all while maintaining powerful general intelligence. To learn more about deploying foundation models with SageMaker JumpStart, deployment options with the SDK, and best practices for implementation, refer to our documentation. MiniMax-M2 is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pa

Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces enhanced secret sorting capabilities in the Secrets Manager console and for ListSecrets API. You can now sort secrets by name, last changed date, last accessed date, and creation date—expanding beyond the previous creation date-only option. Secrets Manager is a fully managed service that helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, application credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. This enhancement improves secret discovery by providing flexible sorting options across multiple dimensions through both Secrets Manager console and APIs. The new sorting capabilities are available in Secrets Manager console and ListSecrets API in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. For a list of regions where Secrets Manager is available, see the

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL Innovation Release 9.5 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Innovation Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. You can deploy MySQL 9.5 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment which provides the benefits of a fully managed database, making it simpler to set up, operate, and monitor databases. MySQL 9.5 is the latest Innovation Release from the MySQL community. MySQL Innovation releases include bug fixes, security patches, as well as new features. MySQL Innovation releases are supported by the community until the next innovation minor, whereas MySQL Long Term Support (LTS) Releases, such as MySQL 8.0 and MySQL 8.4, are supported by the community for up to eight years. Please refer to the MySQL 9.5 release notes an

AWS Transform now supports automatic network conversion from hybrid data centers, eliminating manual network mapping for environments running both VMware and non-VMware workloads. The service now analyzes VLANs and IP ranges across all exported source networks and maps these to AWS constructs like Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), subnets, and security groups. AWS Transform for VMware is an agentic AI-powered service that automates the discovery, planning, and migration of VMware workloads, accelerating infrastructure modernization with increased confidence. The service extends support to hybrid data centers by analyzing exported data from application mapping tools such as modelizeIT to automatically generate Infrastructure as Code and provision AWS networking resources. This feature is available in all AWS Transf

Starting today, AWS End User Messaging customers can use AWS generative AI to review their phone number registrations, so you can submit to mobile carriers correctly the first time. With the registration reviewer (preview), AWS will provide you feedback on your registration form checking the message sample, opt-in description, use-case, help and stop messages, etc., helping you submit an accurate and complete registration. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. Developers can integrate messaging to support uses cases such as one-time passcodes (OTP) at sign-ups, account updates, appointment reminders, delivery notifications, promotions and more. Support for generative AI registration reviewer is available in all AWS Regions where End User Messaging is available, see the

Amazon Redshift now allows you to run create MV and refresh MV commands from multiple Amazon Redshift data warehouses. This update also allows you to create an MV on shared MVs. Finally, this release now supports concurrency scaling of the create materialized view (MV) data definition language (DDL) command. With this update, you can now scale the create MV DDL command whenever your main Amazon Redshift data warehouse cluster or workgroup runs out of resources simply by enabling concurrency scaling in your Amazon Redshift account. You can start using these new capabilities immediately in all AWS regions where Amazon Redshift is available to scale your workload and build resilient analytics applications with predictable Service Level Agreements. To get started, refer to the Concurrency Scalin