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Amazon Aurora DSQL Goes GA: Distributed, PostgreSQL-Compatible Serverless Database
Amazon has recently announced the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a PostgreSQL-compatible, serverless, and distributed database. The new managed service is designed to support active-active high availability and multi-region strong consistency.
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AWS Introduces Open Source Model Context Protocol Servers for ECS, EKS, and Serverless
AWS has launched open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on GitHub to supercharge AI development within Amazon ECS, EKS, and Serverless environments. These specialized tools equip developers with real-time, context-specific insights, enhancing application deployment, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency. Empower your cloud experience today!
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Virt8ra Sovereign Cloud Expands with Six New European Providers
Virt8ra is a groundbreaking European initiative aiming to establish a sovereign, interoperable cloud ecosystem, countering US cloud dominance. With significant expansion, now inclusive of six new providers, and a focus on open-source technology, Virt8ra promotes data localization and vendor independence, paving the way for an innovative digital future across Europe.
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Azure AI Search Unveils Agentic Retrieval for Smarter Conversational AI
Microsoft’s Azure AI Search unveils agentic retrieval, a cutting-edge query engine that enhances conversational AI answer relevance by up to 40%. This dynamic system leverages conversation history and parallel subquery execution, paving the way for sophisticated knowledge retrieval. Currently in public preview, it offers adaptive search strategies tailored for evolving enterprise needs.
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AWS Launches Centralized Product Lifecycle Page: Transparency and Consolidating Deprecation Info
AWS has launched its Product Lifecycle page, a centralized hub for tracking service availability changes, deprecations, and end-of-support timelines. This initiative streamlines communication, enhances customer confidence, and aligns with other hyperscalers, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The page offers clear rationales and transition plans, ensuring a smooth process for customers.
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Azure AI Foundry Agent Service GA Introduces Multi-Agent Orchestration and Open Interoperability
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry Agent Service has launched with robust, scalable features for building and managing AI agents. This versatile, use-case-agnostic platform supports multi-agent orchestration and integrates seamlessly with tools like Logic Apps and SharePoint. Developers can effortlessly create intelligent ecosystems for diverse applications, boosting productivity and innovation.
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Azure Logic Apps Introduces "Agent Loop" for Building AI Agents in Enterprise Workflows
Microsoft's Build conference unveiled Agent Loop, a transformative feature in Azure Logic Apps enabling developers to embed AI agents into enterprise workflows. Leveraging over 1,400 connectors, it allows for creating autonomous and conversational agents for tasks like loan approvals and customer support, streamlining operations, and enhancing decision-making.
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AWS Transform GA: Agentic AI Automates Mainframe and VMware Modernization on AWS
AWS Transform, now generally available, is an innovative AI service designed to streamline enterprise mainframe and VMware modernization. Leveraging generative AI, it automates legacy systems' transformation into cloud architectures. With specialized multi-agent AI, it enhances code analysis and application migration.
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Llama 4 Scout and Maverick Now Available on Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart
AWS recently announced the availability of Meta's latest foundation models, Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, in Amazon Bedrock and AWS SageMaker JumpStart. Both models provide multimodal capabilities and follow the mixture-of-experts architecture.
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Cloudflare Enhances Developer Experience with Vite Plugin and React Router v7 Support
Introducing Cloudflare's Vite Plugin (v1.0), revolutionizing web app development on Cloudflare Workers! Seamlessly integrate the Workers runtime into the Vite build process, enhance productivity with official React Router v7 support, and streamline deployment workflows. Experience faster builds, efficient hot module replacement, and robust ecosystem support for modern frameworks.
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AWS Lambda Introduces Tiered Pricing for CloudWatch Logs and Expands Logging Destinations
AWS enhances Lambda logging with tiered pricing for Amazon CloudWatch Logs, effective May 1, 2025, reducing costs for high-volume deployments. New destinations like Amazon S3 and Firehose simplify integration and enable advanced analytics. These changes promise significant savings and flexibility for AWS users while emphasizing the need for optimized logging strategies.
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Amazon to Raise AWS Lambda Costs by Charging for Cold Starts
Starting next August, Amazon will begin charging for the AWS Lambda initialization phase for managed runtimes. While the company frames this change as a billing standardization to align with existing behavior, and many in the community view it as a step toward more predictable and unified billing, others see it as a price increase by AWS.
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Neon Serverless Postgres Now Generally Available as an Azure Native Integration
Microsoft and Neon launch Neon Serverless Postgres, now generally available as a native Azure integration, offering developers an innovative, scalable, and cost-effective database solution. With automatic scaling, instant provisioning, and seamless integration, it's designed for enterprises and AI startups alike, enhancing workflows and enabling efficient database management within Azure.
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Google Cloud Announces Rapid Storage for Millisecond-Latency Workloads
At the recent Google Cloud Next 2025, the cloud provider announced Rapid Storage, a new Cloud Storage zonal bucket designed to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. The new storage class provides under 1ms random read and write latency, 20x faster data access, and 6 TB/s of throughput.
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Temporal on AWS Aims to Ease Building Resilient Distributed Systems
Temporal Technologies, the company that created Temporal, an open-source microservices orchestration platform focused on durable execution, has made Temporal Cloud available on the AWS marketplace. By offering their services via AWS, the company aims to simplify the development of resilient distributed systems for large-scale applications.