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AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools now supports hibernating instances and returning instances to Warm Pools on scale-in
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools now support two new features: you can now hibernate your Warm Pool instances and you can configure your Auto Scaling group to return running instances to a Warm Pool on scale-in. With Warm Pools, you can scale out faster by bringing instances into service from a pre-initialized pool of […]

Azure – Public preview: Elastic and Azure Spring Cloud integration
Monitor every step of your cloud journey with the integration of Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic and instrument Spring Boot applications. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise
Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise includes fully managed VMware Tanzu components to help you ship faster as well as long term support for Spring projects to unlock Spring’s full potential. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for .NET 6
AWS Lambda now supports .NET 6 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with .NET 6 can take advantage of new features such as improved logging, simplified function definitions using top-level statements, and improved performance using source generators. Using .NET 6 also lets you take advantage of […]

Azure – Public preview: WordPress enhancements for App Service
Improvements include a new image, multiple hosting plans, better performance, and simplified configuration. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure NetApp Files – application consistent snapshot tool v5.1
Application consistent snapshot tool is a command-line tool for simplifying data protection for third-party databases in Linux environments. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure NetApp Files new region and cross-region replication
Azure NetApp Files is now available in an additional Australia region and supports a new cross-region replication pair. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. It is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Direct enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing
Manage your enrollment hierarchy, view account usage, and monitor costs directly from the Azure Cost Management and Billing menu on the Azure Portal (for direct enterprise agreement customers on commercial cloud). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snowcone SSD is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central) and South America ( Sao Paulo)
The AWS Snowcone solid state drive (SSD) is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions adding to our growing list of regions already offering Snowcone SSD including AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and US West (San Francisco) Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific […]