Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink introduces enhanced snapshots
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports enhanced snapshots, a capability that lets you capture, export, and restore application state across Apache Flink applications and AWS Regions, so you can run blue/green deployments, easily migrate self-managed workloads to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink without losing state, and keep backup in a...
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Genie ZeroOps is available in Beta
Genie ZeroOps is now in beta, providing automated monitoring for jobs, pipelines, and tables. It detects failures and data quality issues, investigates root causes, and proposes fixes.
You can track table-level data lineage in Knowledge Catalog for BigQuery pipelines
You can track table-level data lineage in Knowledge Catalog for BigQuery pipelines. For more information, see Track data lineage . This feature is generally available (GA).
BigQuery generative AI functions now support the gemini-4-hydrogen model
BigQuery generative AI functions now support the gemini-4-hydrogen model. This model is generally available .
[In preview] Public Preview: SQL performance monitoring for Azure SQL Managed Instance
The public preview of Microsoft-managed performance monitoring for Azure SQL Managed Instance is now available. Customers monitoring business-critical SQL Managed Instance workloads often rely on custom scripts and disconnected monitoring tools. This requ
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 4 Hydrogen available in web app, mobile app, Workflow Builder, and AI developer tools
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is generally available (GA) for the Gemini Enterprise web app, mobile app, Workflow Builder, and AI developer tools. Location availability : Supported in global , us , and eu multi-regions, with data residency and ML processing support in us and eu . For more information, see Data residency for Gemini Enterprise .
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.8 Flash regional availability in Canada and Japan
Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available (GA) in Canada and Japan. Location availability : Supported in the Canada and Japan in-country regions with in-region at-rest data residency (DRZ) and machine learning processing (MLP). App availability : Turned on by default in the web app for the Canada and Japan regions.
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Amazon MSK now supports TLS 1.3 for data in transit
Amazon MSK now supports TLS 1.3 for data in transit in provisioned clusters. This update improves encryption security and helps meet compliance requirements.
Managed Prometheus collectors now support Amazon MSK consumer-group metrics
Managed Prometheus collectors now automatically discover and collect Kafka exporter and consumer-group lag metrics from Amazon MSK clusters. This enables monitoring of streaming application health and performance.
Amazon MSK Connect now supports updating connector plugins and worker configurations
Amazon MSK Connect now allows in-place updates for custom connector plugins and worker configurations. This eliminates the need to delete and recreate connectors, preserving committed offsets during updates.
Amazon MSK Connect now supports pausing and resuming connectors
Amazon MSK Connect now allows users to pause and resume connectors in place, preserving configuration and offsets without needing to delete and recreate them.
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports interface VPC endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink , providing private connectivity from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).
AWS Transform now supports Apache Kafka migration assessments for Amazon MSK
You can now use AWS Transform agentic migration assessments to evaluate the migration of on-premises Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) .
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data.