Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports changing durability on existing clusters
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now allows users to enable or disable durability on existing clusters without creating new ones. This supports evolving use cases, such as transitioning from caching to persistent storage for AI agent memory.
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OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now available on Unity Gateway
Databricks now supports the OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra model via Foundation Model APIs on Unity Gateway.
Editing files in Unity Catalog volumes is now generally available
Users can now edit files stored in Unity Catalog volumes directly within the Databricks workspace file editor, eliminating the need for manual downloads and uploads.
Released pg\_pinecone
The pg_pinecone extension is now available, enabling native vector search within PostgreSQL. It allows users to perform vector searches using the local engine or offload indexing to Pinecone for larger datasets.
[Launched] Generally Available: Cost management and tagging for Claude models in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry now provides integrated cost management and tagging for Claude models within Azure Cost Management. This update ensures Claude usage is tracked under the specific Foundry resource rather than as general SaaS spend.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 (Preview)
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now available in preview. This vision-language model is designed for robotics applications, supporting spatial reasoning, agentic code execution, and task orchestration.
xAI's Grok 4.7 is generally available
xAI's Grok 4.7 model is now generally available for production use on global and US multi-region endpoints.
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Amazon Aurora serverless now supports up to 384 ACUs
Amazon Aurora serverless for PostgreSQL now supports up to 384 ACUs, a 50% increase in capacity. This allows for larger workloads while maintaining the ability to scale down to zero during idle periods, which is useful for agentic AI applications.
Amazon Neptune now supports online index rebuild to reclaim storage
Amazon Neptune now supports online index rebuilds, allowing administrators to defragment indexes and reclaim storage space without taking the database offline.
Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Starting today, you can reserve compute capacity for your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS DB instances in one or more Availability Zones for as long as you need it. Reserving capacity helps ensure that DB instance create, restore, scale-compute, and start operations don't fail because of insufficient capacity.
Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating replicas
Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating a replica without deleting its table or data. Global tables provide fully managed, multi-Region, multi-active replication. You can now stop replication to and from a replica and continue using the same table as a single-Region table.
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports online migration with zero downtime
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports online migration from self-managed Valkey and Redis OSS on Amazon EC2 with zero downtime. Zero downtime means zero Errors returned to the client during migration, measured the same way the ElastiCache SLA measures availability.
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports timestamp-based stream processing, enabling you to begin reading stream records from a specific point in time. Previously, you could only start from the oldest retained record (up to 24 hours old) or from new records written after you start consuming the stream.
AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports Aurora PostgreSQL cross-region deployment in 7 more Regions
Today, AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization adds support for cross-region deployment of converted Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL databases and is available in seven additional AWS Regions.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey introduces ElastiCache Insights
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now features ElastiCache Insights, a pre-built dashboard in Amazon CloudWatch for your node-based clusters. ElastiCache Insights brings cluster health, memory, compute, network, command throughput, latency, keyspace, and errors into a single view sourced from a set of OpenTelemetry metrics that ElastiCache publishes...