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AWS – Amazon EMR Managed Scaling is now Spark shuffle data aware
Amazon EMR Managed Scaling automatically resizes EMR clusters for best performance and resource utilization. Today, we are excited to announce a new capability in Managed Scaling that prevents it from scaling down instances that store intermediate shuffle data for Apache Spark. Intelligently scaling down clusters without removing the instances that store intermediate shuffle data prevents job […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13.6, 12.10, 11.15, 10.20 and Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL 1.2.0
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 13.6, 12.10, 11.15, and 10.20. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade and how to […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds option for easy monitoring set up
Now you can easily set up monitoring, alarms and dashboards for many of your resources and workloads automatically in CloudWatch. The new one-click option on the CloudWatch Getting Started page provides customers a convenient means to launch CloudWatch Application Insights. Once launched, Application Insights will discover the underlying resources in your account or Resource Group […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Conditional Access
Azure Data Explorer launches support for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Node.js 16 in Azure Functions
Azure Functions support for Node.js 16.x is now generally available in Azure Functions runtime 4.0 on all hosting plans. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Sweden Central
Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
Cross-region snapshot copy allows you to copy disk snapshots to any region for disaster recovery. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Edge Device Image Builder
Edge Device Image Builder assists device builders and OEMs by providing a guided experience to build secure and customized Windows IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 device images. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Cognitive Search implements debug sessions
Streamline your Cognitive Search operations with debug sessions for building, testing, and modifying skillsets. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB
The Always Encrypted feature brings client-side encryption capabilities to Azure Cosmos DB and allows you to put an extra level of protection on your sensitive data. Read More for the details.