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Which hosting does your website or web app need? A plain-language comparison of shared hosting, VPS, cloud platforms and managed services.
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Kubernetes is powerful but not always necessary. A practical comparison with App Service, Cloud Run, ECS and plain VMs to help small teams choose.
Cloud Cost Optimisation: A Practical Checklist for Startups and SMEs
Cloud bills grow quietly. These are the checks that usually cut 20 to 40 percent of waste without hurting performance or reliability.
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Origin Range Requests: Serving large files without range-request tuning
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Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now supports persistent chat across linked AWS Regions
Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now provides customers a mechanism to deliver long, persistent chat experiences across linked AWS Regions. With this capability, end users can resume previous conversations with full context, metadata, and transcripts carried over across Regions, eliminating the need for end users…
AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now support 1:1 NAT
AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now provide managed one-to-one network address translation (NAT) directly on their attachments, through integration with Regional Private NAT Gateway. This enables customers to connect private networks that share the same IP address ranges without renumbering either network, deploying…
Amazon Corretto October 2026 Quarterly Updates
On October 22, 2026 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 27.0.1.0.10, 25.0.5.0.9, 21.0.13.0.10, 17.0.21.0.10, 11.0.33.0.9, and 8u512 are now available for download . Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Visit…
Amazon MWAA now available in Mexico (Central) Region
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA) Provisioned environments are now available in the Mexico (Central) Region (mx-central-1). Amazon MWAA Serverless was already available in this Region, and customers can now also use Amazon MWAA Provisioned environments for their Apache Airflow workflows. Amazon MWAA…
Amazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percent
Amazon EMR announces a reduction of 30 percent in the EMR charge added to EKS when running EMR on EKS. This price decrease applies to both the per-vCPU-hour charge and the per-GB-hour charge, while the underlying Amazon EKS charges remain unchanged. All EMR workloads running…
Amazon Connect Customer now supports customizing the Customer Profiles app on the agent workspace
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Expanding Claude availability and deployment choice on Google Cloud
Every organization has unique requirements for building and scaling generative AI. At Google Cloud, we are committed to giving developers model choice and architectural flexibility to run workloads however they need. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of an Anthropic-managed deployment option for Claude Models…
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities. Continuum for code vulnerabilities discovers, validates, prioritizes, and remediates code vulnerabilities at machine speed. Continuum for code vulnerabilities builds a context graph from your AWS environment, including resource topology, identity relationships, and network…
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces intelligent ingestion for logs and documents in Amazon S3
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now offers intelligent ingestion, a fully managed feature that turns logs and documents stored in Amazon S3 into searchable content in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (NextGen) collections . With intelligent ingestion, you can set up ingestion with a few clicks in the AWS…
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
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Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports a 5-second default refresh interval
Starting today, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless reduces the default refresh interval to 5 seconds for both search and vector collections. The refresh interval controls how quickly newly ingested documents become available for search. By lowering the default from 10 seconds to 5 seconds, newly written data…
AWS CloudFormation now simplifies stack update rollback operations
AWS CloudFormation now makes it simpler to complete an update rollback and get back to deploying. An update rollback returns your stack to a known good state. Starting today, if some resources cannot roll back automatically, force rollback enables you to complete the rollback in…