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New capabilities to optimize costs and improve scalability on Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Oracle

By Dustin Ward

Managing database environments demands a balance of resource efficiency and scalability. Organizations need flexible options across their entire database lifecycle, spanning development, testing, and production workloads with diverse storage and compute requirements. To address these…

Introducing Database Savings Plans for AWS Databases

By Dustin Ward

Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Savings Plans, customers have been able to lower the cost of running sustained workloads while maintaining the flexibility to manage usage across accounts, resource types, and AWS Regions. Today,…

Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re expanding Amazon CloudWatch capabilities to unify and manage log data across operational, security, and compliance use cases with flexible and powerful analytics in one place and with reduced data duplication and costs. This…

New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing a fundamental shift in how AWS Support helps customers move from reactive problem-solving to proactive issue prevention. This evolution introduces new Support plans that combine AI-powered capabilities with Amazon Web Services (AWS)…

Amazon OpenSearch Service improves vector database performance and cost with GPU acceleration and auto-optimization

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing serverless GPU acceleration and auto-optimization for vector index in Amazon OpenSearch Service that helps you build large-scale vector databases faster with lower costs and automatically optimize vector indexes for optimal trade-offs between…

Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance

By Dustin Ward

Today, I’m excited to announce that Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available with significantly increased scale and production-grade performance capabilities. S3 Vectors is the first cloud object storage with native support to store and…

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