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7/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances Starting today, Amazon EC2 gives customers the option to skip the graceful operating system (OS) shutdown during an instance stop or terminate. Previously, customers waited by default for a graceful OS shutdown attempt when stopping or terminating their instances. Customers can now skip the graceful operating system shutdown attempt during stop or terminate for a faster application recovery when instance data preservation is not critical....

7/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports 24xlarge memory-optimized instances Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers 24xlarge memory-optimized instances, providing enhanced performance for demanding time-series workloads. This new instance type is generally available for both Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments, as well as Multi-AZ Read Replica clusters, enabling customers to scale their time-series database solutions.\n The 24xlarge instance delivers 96 vCPU, 768 GiB of memory, and up to 40 Gbps of enhanced network bandwidth....

7/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon SQS introduces fair queues for multi-tenant workloads Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now offers fair queues, a new feature that mitigates noisy neighbor impact in multi-tenant standard queues. When one tenant (such as a customer, client application, or request type) sends too many messages or has messages that require longer processing time, fair queues help keep other tenants’ messages flowing without long delays....

7/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) through AWS PrivateLink with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. This launch extends IPv6 compatibility, previously available only for public endpoints, to VPC endpoints across all AWS commercial Regions.\n Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of distributed systems, microservices, and serverless applications....

7/17/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports linked servers with Oracle OLEDB Driver version 21.16 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports linked servers with Oracle OLEDB Driver version 21.16.\n Linked servers allow customers to access external datasources from within their Amazon RDS for SQL Server database. Linked servers with Oracle OLEDB can be used in SQL Server Standard or Enterprise Editions, and with SQL Server 2017, 2019, or 2022 to read data from and run commands against remote Oracle database servers using Oracle Database Version 18c, 19c or 21c....