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AWS – Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts are now available on AWS Outposts
Today, we are announcing support for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Dedicated Hosts on AWS Outposts, which makes it easier for customers to bring their existing software licenses and workloads that require a dedicated physical server to their Outpost Racks. In addition, customers now have greater flexibility in instance type deployment and more granular placement […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports multiple staging and target accounts
We are excited to announce that AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) has added support for multiple staging and target accounts. Today you can replicate and protect up to 300 source servers per AWS account. By using multiple staging and target accounts, you can now also recover up to 3,000 replicating source servers into any target AWS […]

GCP – Cloud Storage as a File System in Vertex AI Workbench Notebooks
Cloud Storage as a File System in Vertex AI User Managed Notebooks What if I told you there is no need to `gsutil cp -r `? If you’ve developed machine learning models before, you know that data quality and governance issues are predominant. When developing models, you’ll spin up a Vertex AI Workbench Jupyter Notebook […]

Azure – Generally available: Budget alert supports action groups with common alert schema
Azure cost management budget alert now supports action groups with common alert schema. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Switzerland North Availability Zones
Three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Bastion IP based connection
You can now use Azure Bastion to connect to on-premises resources over ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site VPN Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Athena connector for Amazon Lookout for Metrics
AWS Lookout for Metrics announces the launch of the Athena connector, a new connector in Lookout for Metrics that allows you to query data from various data sources such as Data Lake on AWS, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift to ingest into Amazon Lookout for Metrics for anomaly detection. The Athena connector reduces the need to setup complex […]

AWS – AWS DataSync adds support for Amazon EFS security features
AWS DataSync now provides additional security options when moving data to and from Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). AWS DataSync is an online data movement service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data between on-premises, edge, or cloud storage and AWS Storage services. Amazon EFS is a serverless, fully elastic file system that makes […]

Azure – General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry
You can now browse for Microsoft artifacts and container images on the Microsoft Artifact Registry website. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts
AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts so you can try products before you buy them. Previously, customers would either need to commit to a contract before trying the product, or go to third-party websites for free trials offered by software vendors directly. Read More for the details.