Amazon Custom for SQL Server now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances.

Today we are announcing a new capability for AWS Entity Resolution to help customers protect their datasets. You can now use AWS PrivateLink with AWS Entity Resolution to establish private connectivity between your data tables and your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your organization’s traffic to the Internet, so your data remains encrypted in transit and at rest. This improvement is especially helpful for customers that require this capability to meet their organization’s security and data protection requirements.

Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.8, MacOS Monterey, and MacOS Ventura. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch instances with both security-related and other types of updates across your infrastructure for a variety of common operating systems, including Windows Server, Amazon Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). For a full list of supported operating systems, see the Patch Manager prerequisites user guide page . 

Today, AWS Marketplace announces the general availability of an enhanced private offer user experience to improve ease of use across different product types and pricing models. AWS Marketplace sellers can now directly view and manage active agreements in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP) Agreements tab for AMI, container, SaaS, and professional services products with all pricing types.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) enhanced tasks scheduling to make customers’ applications even more resilient to unpredictable load spikes. Now, Amazon ECS will first start a healthy replacement for each unhealthy task, that failed to pass a container or load balancer health check, before terminating it. This enhancement increases the resilience of customers’ applications with no additional efforts or configuration.

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TON – The Biden-Harris administration, through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), today announced the designation of 31 Tech Hubs in regions across the country. This is …

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GlobalFoundries  has been awarded $35 million in federal funding from the U.S. government to accelerate the manufacturing of GaN-on-silicon ICs at its facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. With the funding, …

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