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AWS Glue adds large and memory-optimized workers in Spain region
AWS Glue has expanded its offerings in the Europe (Spain) region by introducing large and memory-optimized worker types. These new options, including G.12X, G.16X, R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X, enhance capabilities for complex data processing, aggregations, and memory-intensive Spark operations. Customers in the region can now leverage these resources for higher-volume data processing and intricate transformations, accessible via Glue Studio, notebooks, or APIs.
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Amazon Keyspaces expands to AWS Malaysia and Thailand regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions. This expansion allows customers in the region to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and meet data residency requirements. The service offers features like point-in-time recovery and Multi-Region replication, enabling highly scalable, low-latency applications without managing Cassandra clusters.
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SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet job retries
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now automatically provisions AWS Glue connectors across subnets, enhancing data pipeline resilience. This feature reduces unplanned downtime and SLA breaches by enabling automatic job retries on alternate subnets during failures, without manual engineer intervention. It's available for all SageMaker Unified Studio users in supported AWS Regions.
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Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 Generally Available
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports community MySQL 8.4, aligning version numbers and simplifying operations. This release enhances security defaults, enforcing TLS and updating authentication plugins, while also introducing automated upgrade prechecks for smoother transitions. It is available globally for users seeking high performance and availability with full MySQL compatibility.
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Amazon DocumentDB Serverless available on version 8.0
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on version 8.0, offering an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration. This feature can reduce costs by up to 90% by scaling capacity based on application demand, benefiting users managing database costs. Version 8.0 also includes significant performance improvements and enhanced compatibility with MongoDB API versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0. Serverless is available for new and existing clusters, with an upgrade path from version 5.0.
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SageMaker Unified Studio adds data quality rule authoring and evaluation
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports authoring and evaluating data quality rules, leveraging AWS Glue Data Quality. This integration allows data professionals to define rules, assess data quality in catalog tables and ETL jobs, and identify issues early to prevent bad data from impacting downstream workflows. The feature is available in all SageMaker Unified Studio regions for both IAM Identity Center and IAM-based domains.
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AWS releases ExtendDB, an open-source DynamoDB API adapter
AWS has launched ExtendDB, an open-source project implementing the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. This allows developers to use the DynamoDB programming model in environments outside of AWS, such as on-premises or developer laptops, without code rewrites. The initial release supports PostgreSQL as a backend and is available under the Apache 2.0 license, inviting community contributions. ExtendDB is beneficial for local development, testing, and deploying DynamoDB-compatible workloads in diverse environments.
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Amazon MWAA Adds Support for Apache Airflow 3.2
Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow 3.2, offering new data-aware scheduling and developer productivity enhancements for data pipelines on AWS. This update allows for more precise pipeline control through asset partitioning and improves human-in-the-loop capabilities with enhanced audit history. The new version is available for new environments and upgrades from Airflow 2.11+ via the AWS Management Console.
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AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations expand to Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, simplifying data pipelines and reducing latency for analytics and ML workloads. This feature supports data replication from various sources to analytics data stores with automatic schema mapping and change data capture. It benefits data engineering teams by reducing infrastructure management overhead and enabling near real-time data replication.
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Amazon Redshift supports ALTER TABLE and writes for Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift now allows writing directly to Apache Iceberg tables via the AWS Glue Data Catalog and supports ALTER TABLE DDL statements for schema modifications. This simplifies data pipelines by enabling transformations in the data lake that are queryable by any engine, eliminating the need to delete and recreate tables. These enhancements ensure cross-engine interoperability with engines like EMR and Athena and are available in all AWS Regions.
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