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AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in ten more regions
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the following ten additional regions: Africa (Cape Town) Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Asia Pacific (Osaka) Asia Pacific (Seoul) Canada (Central) Europe (Milano) Europe (Paris) Middle East (Bahrain) South America (São Paulo) US West (N. California) Read More for the details.
Azure – Microsoft Azure Web PubSub service now in public preview
Easily build large-scale real-time messaging applications with WebSockets without the need to manage backend infrastructure. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports High Availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. This new high availability option leverages SQL Server Database Mirroring (DBM) or Always On Availability Groups (AGs) technology. Multi-AZ helps you meet the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads running on SQL Server. The Multi-AZ deployment option provides enhanced availability and […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family now enables you to order, track, and manage long-term pricing Snow jobs
AWS Snow Family now enables you to order, track, and manage long-term pricing Snowball Edge jobs directly from the console or via APIs. Many Snowball Edge customers deploy Snowball Edge devices for one or more years. By paying the device fees upfront, Snowball Edge’s long-term pricing options enable you to use Snowball Edge devices for […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for hierarchical data queries with Recursive CTE
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now adds support for Recursive Common Table Expression (CTE). Starting today, you can use a Recursive CTE on your Redshift cluster to query hierarchical data such as organizational charts where employees reports to other employees (managers), or multi-level product orders where a product consists of many components, which […]
AWS – AWS Instance Scheduler v1.4 adds support for multiple stack deployments and GovCloud US Regions
We’re excited to announce that we’ve updated AWS Instance Scheduler, a reference implementation that makes it easier for customers to control their AWS compute resource capacity and cost by configuring start and stop schedules for their Amazon EC2 and RDS instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – New digital course: Amazon Elastic Block Store Primer
We’re excited to announce an intermediate, 150-minute, digital course: Amazon Elastic Block Store Primer. This free course provides an overview of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), and explores how to balance cost and performance using different volume types. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, and operations engineers, it includes interactive lessons, a self-paced lab, […]
AWS – AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for AWS managed Lambda Layer and other features
Today, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) adds support for an AWS managed Lambda layer in Java, node.js, and Python, providing a simple getting started experience for customers to add the OpenTelemetry SDK and Collector into their AWS Lambda functions for collecting trace data. In addition, ADOT has added support for AWS Systems Manager agent, enabling […]
AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.6.2
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.6.2 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.6.2 includes several bug fixes and security fixes. Version 2.6.2 will replace 2.6.1 as the default recommended version for new clusters created in Amazon MSK. For a complete list of fixes, see the Apache […]
Azure – General availability: Set up Azure Site Recovery with proximity placement groups across hybrid and cloud disaster recovery scenarios
Azure Site Recovery now provides a portal experience to failover VMs or physical servers inside a proximity placement group in the target Azure region. Read More for the details.