Amazon RDS Multi AZ

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) PostgreSQL Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports major version upgrades. 

Starting this week, RDS PostgreSQL is possible to upgrade multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys from major version 13.4 and above and 14.5 and above to 15.4 with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console.

PostgreSQL 15.4 offers several performance and feature benefits that include SQL standard "MERGE" command for conditional SQL queries, performance improvements for both in-memory and disk-based sorting, and support for two-phase commit and row/column filtering for logical replication. 

PostgreSQL 15 release also adds support for new extension pg_walinspect, and server-side compression with Gzip, LZ4, or Zstandard (zstd) using pg_basebackup. 

Amazon Bedrock

Pinecone is now available (private preview) as a Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) for building GenAI applications.

With this release, we can quickly and effortlessly integrate your enterprise data when building search and GenAI applications. This workflow is called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and with Pinecone, it aids in providing relevant, accurate, and fast responses from search or GenAI applications to end users. 

With Pinecone as a Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock, GenAI applications are ready to build with:

• Highly performant: Speed through data in milliseconds. Leverage metadata filters and sparse-dense index support for top-notch relevance, ensuring quick, accurate, and grounded results across diverse search tasks.
• Cost effective at scale: Start for free on the starter plan and seamlessly scale usage with transparent usage-based pricing. Add or remove resources to meet your desired capacity and performance, upwards of billions of embeddings.
• Enterprise ready: Launch, use, and scale your AI solution without needing to maintain infrastructure, monitor services, or troubleshoot algorithms. Pinecone meets the security and operational requirements of enterprises.