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Azure – General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.9
Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.9. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Payment Profiles for customizing AWS payment preferences
Payment Profiles is a new payments feature that allows you to customize your payment preferences by AWS service provider (also known as “seller of record”). Using Payment Profiles, you can automatically pay your AWS bills from different service providers using payment methods you choose. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds Support for Log Filter Expressions
Amazon CloudWatch agent has added support for configurable log filter expressions. Customers can install and configure the CloudWatch agent to collect system and application logs from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), on-premises hosts, and containerized applications and send them to CloudWatch. This new configuration option is intended for users who want to collect only log events […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for Configurable Log Group Retention
Amazon CloudWatch agent now allows you to specify how long CloudWatch will retain log events. You can install and configure CloudWatch agent to collect system and application logs from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), on-premises hosts, and containerized applications and send them to CloudWatch. This new configuration option is intended for users who want to apply […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds Support for NVIDIA GPU Metrics
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports the collection of NVIDIA GPU performance metrics from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) accelerated computing instances running Linux. GPU-based instances provide access to NVIDIA GPUs with thousands of compute cores. You can use these instances to accelerate scientific, engineering, and rendering applications. Customers can install and configure CloudWatch agent to collect […]

AWS – AWS Amplify announces the general availability of The Authenticator UI Library for Flutter
AWS Amplify is announcing the general availability of the Authenticator UI library for Flutter. Using the Authenticator UI library, Flutter developers can create a login/registration experience in minutes. When a developer adds the Authentication category and sets the authorization and verification attributes from the Amplify CLI or Amplify Studio, the Authenticator login/registration forms are displayed […]

AWS – AWS App Mesh introduces Agent for Envoy
AWS App Mesh introduces Agent for Envoy, a new component that monitors Envoy proxies and helps keep them healthy. Agent for Envoy also facilitates Envoy connection draining, helping make your applications more resilient to failures. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate […]

AWS – AWS App Runner adds a Java platform
AWS App Runner now supports a Java language platform for building and running Java based web applications. The Java language platform on App Runner launched with two Amazon Corretto runtimes – Corretto 11 and Corretto 8. Both runtimes add the Maven and Gradle tools to your application’s container in addition to the respective Corretto runtime […]

AWS – AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) schemas
AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) schemas, enabling customers to use Protobuf schemas to govern the evolution of streaming data and centrally control data quality from data streams to data lake. Glue Schema Registry provides Apache-licensed serializers and deserializers for Protobuf that integrate with Java applications developed for Apache Kafka/Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache […]
AWS – Amazon S3 accelerates integrity checking of requests by up to 90%
Amazon S3 accelerates integrity checking of requests by up to 92%. For the first time in the cloud, you can choose from four supported checksum algorithms for data integrity checking on your upload and download requests. In addition, enhancements to the AWS SDK and S3 API significantly improve checksum efficiency, increasing the performance and reducing […]