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AWS – Announcing the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes for Amazon MemoryDB Preview
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for Amazon MemoryDB enables you to define and use MemoryDB resources directly from your Kubernetes cluster. This lets you take advantage of MemoryDB to support your Kubernetes applications without needing to define MemoryDB resources outside of the cluster or run and manage in-memory database capabilities within the cluster. Read More […]

AWS – AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports new version of Puppet Enterprise
AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the current Puppet Enterprise LTS version 2019.8.10. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS now allows you to run commands in a Windows container running on AWS Fargate
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Exec adds support for executing commands in a Windows container running on AWS Fargate. ECS Exec gives you interactive shell or single command access to a running container making it easier to debug issues, diagnose errors, collect one-off dumps and statistics, and interact with processes in the container. Read […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication. With this new feature, SQL Server Agent jobs created, modified, or deleted on the primary instance will be automatically synchronized to the secondary instance in a Multi-AZ configuration. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Announces Data Transfer Price Reduction for AWS PrivateLink, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Client VPN services
Beginning April 1, 2022, the inter-Availability Zone (AZ) data transfer within the same AWS Region for AWS PrivateLink, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Client VPN is free of charge. Previously, customers incurred an inter-AZ data transfer charge for sending data across availability zones while using these networking services. With this pricing change, inter-AZ data transfer […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for role-based access control (RBAC)
Amazon Redshift now supports role-based access control (RBAC), a new enhancement that helps you simplify the management of security privileges in Amazon Redshift. You can use the RBAC feature to control end user access to data at a broad or granular level based on their job role/permission rights and level of data sensitivity. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Power BI
Amazon Redshift now provides native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), which customers can use for authentication and authorization with tools like Microsoft Power BI. You can now use Azure AD to authenticate access to Amazon Redshift and the end users get their permissions based on their group membership defined in Azure AD. Read […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints
Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect to your Azure Data Explorer cluster privately Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs
Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention (LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Diagnostic audit logs for Automation accounts
Forward Azure Automation diagnostic audit logs to Log analytics workspace to keep track of changes at the automation account level. Read More for the details.