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Kubernetes 1.37 is here and Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) keeps pushing past where it started! This release brings DRA Extended Resource support to GA, a milestone the team has been building toward for three straight releases. Several more features graduate to Beta or GA. A fresh batch of alpha features rounds out the release. I'll dive into what's new for DRA in Kubernetes 1.37! What's stable in 1.37DRA Extended Resource support has graduated to GA. This is the mechanism that lets DRA drivers satisfy requests made through the traditional extended resource API, think example.com/gpu in a Pod spec, without requiring a separate device plug…
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AWS Transform for migrations adds Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a generally available storage target for block storage workloads, alongside Amazon EBS. With AWS Transform, you can now migrate block storage directly to FSx for ONTAP as part of the same migration wave that handles compute and networks, eliminating the need for intermediate storage platforms and separate migration tools. Whether migrating from NetApp ONTAP, other block storage platforms, or VMware environments, your data access patterns and operational processes remain unchanged with FSx for ONTAP. Now your workloads run on a fully managed, production-ready shared storage serv…
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Kubernetes v1.37 includes API support for horizontal autoscaling of workloads down to zero replicas. This feature is now Beta and enabled by default. A HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) that uses a suitable object metric or external metric can now scale a workload to zero replicas, then bring it back when the metric changes. Before v1.37, you needed an add-on or external component, or you had to enable the Alpha feature gate, to scale from zero. It is now part of core Kubernetes. Scaling to zero removes the last idle Pod from workloads such as queue consumers and batch processors. The savings are largest when each Pod reserves expensive resource…
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The Web Search built-in server-side tool on Amazon Bedrock is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), helping bring grounded web results to compliance-sensitive government and public-sector workloads. Web Search helps supported OpenAI GPT models ground responses with information from the web. Responses include citations to the sources the model used so users can trace each claim back to its web origin. This can be especially valuable whenever an answer depends on information that changes over time or is more recent than a model's training data, such as current events, recent releases or live pricing. Because the tool runs inside Amazon Bedr…
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Amazon Connect Customer announces the general availability of agentic CX designer, a no-code canvas for designing and deploying AI-powered self-service experiences. You can now build and launch voice and digital experiences that bring agentic and deterministic AI together to transform how you serve customers with the control and reliability enterprises demand. Your business teams users can go from designing conversations and integrating with the systems that run your business, to testing, to launching production-ready experiences in weeks, not months. Agentic CX designer gives you the clarity of a flowchart with the power of a large language…
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AWS Config now supports 60 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Organizations. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you have enabled recording for all resource types, then AWS Config will automatically track these new additions. The newly supported resource types are also available in Config rules and Config aggregators. You can now use AWS Config to monitor the following newly supported resource types in all…
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Starting today, AWS Lambda supports SnapStart for functions packaged as container images, reducing startup times from several seconds to as low as sub-second. Lambda SnapStart is an opt-in capability that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable applications without provisioning resources or implementing complex performance optimizations. Customers deploy Lambda functions with container images to align with their organization's container-based deployment standards, or to package larger dependencies up to 10 GB. However, larger container images can experience startup times of several seconds as Lambda downloads image la…
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports 18 additional SQL trace flags that you can enable through database parameter groups. Trace flags are configuration switches that modify SQL Server engine behavior — such as query optimizer cardinality estimation, lock escalation, statistics management, and memory handling — to allow database administrators to fine-tune performance and address workload-specific challenges. With this expansion, you have greater flexibility to optimize and stabilize your SQL Server workloads directly within your managed RDS environment. The newly supported trace flags include: 647, 652, 1448, 3654, 4138, 4139, 7745, 8285, 8780…
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Now generally available, Amazon Quick lets you build custom applications by simply describing them in natural language. Create project trackers, customer dashboards, and training portals in minutes instead of months. Whether you're a product manager, finance lead, HR partner, or ops analyst, you can now turn ideas into fully functional apps without writing any code. Tell Quick what you need, and it builds a live, connected application with real-time data from your existing business systems. Quick connects directly to the tools and data your business already uses, including Salesforce, Jira, Asana, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace,…
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Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, to give you a complete view of your database fleet in a single console. Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights is a database observability solution that provides a curated experience to help you monitor database fleet health, diagnose issues, and resolve performance bottlenecks. With support for self-managed databases, you use the Amazon CloudWatch agent to collect health and performa…
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I am excited to announce that etcd RangeStream is graduating to beta in Kubernetes v1.37. Paired with etcd v3.7, it reduces the memory the API server and etcd need to read a large collection, and makes peak usage more predictable. The cost of large readsThe API server serves most list and watch requests from its in-memory watch cache. Populating that cache requires reading a resource's full state from etcd, at startup and on every re-initialization. For a resource with many objects, or large ones, such as Pods, that read is expensive. The API server already paginated these reads, asking etcd for a fixed number of keys at a time rather than t…
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AWS Backup now supports backup and restore of more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account, matching the Amazon S3 bucket quota configured for your account. Previously, AWS Backup for Amazon S3 supported up to 1,000 buckets per account. With this launch, AWS Backup supports backing up all general purpose buckets in your account. Existing backup plans and configurations continue to work with no changes required if you are using default AWS Backup managed policies. For details on the required permissions for custom policies, see the AWS Backup documentation. This capability is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To …
