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AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.26
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.26. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.23. Read More for the details.

GCP – BigQuery Explainable AI now in GA to help you interpret your machine learning models
Explainable AI(XAI) helps you understand and interpret how your machine learning models make decisions. We’re excited to announce that BigQuery Explainable AI is now generally available (GA). BigQuery is the data warehouse that supports explainable AI in a most comprehensive way w.r.t both XAI methodology and model types. It does this at BigQuery scale, enabling […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds service monitoring for Microsoft Active Directory and SharePoint
Now you can easily and automatically setup monitoring, alarms and dashboards for your Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft SharePoint setups running on AWS with CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a service that helps customers monitor and troubleshoot their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature adds automatic discovery of Active Directory […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports failback automation
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports automated, scalable failback to vCenter servers. The new DRS Mass Failback Automation client (DRSFA client) offers additional flexibility and speed for large-scale failback. It allows you to fail back multiple vCenter servers to your primary vCenter environment at the same time. Using the DRSFA client, you can fail […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables you to take action in third-party applications through webhooks
AWS Systems Manager now enables you to send notifications or take actions in third-party tools and applications using outbound webhooks. Outbound webhooks offer a simplified way to integrate with many of the tools you use, such as Slack. Now you can invoke an outbound webhook as a step in your Automation runbook to easily integrate […]

AWS – Now remediate operational issues faster by executing AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks from Slack
AWS Systems Manager Automation now allows you to execute runbooks from Slack to perform operational tasks, resolve issues, and take actions safely in your AWS environment using AWS Chatbot. You can now search for Automation runbooks, provide the necessary inputs, and execute the runbook directly from Slack channels. You can also track the progress and […]

AWS – Now DynamoDB can return the throughput capacity consumed by PartiQL API calls to help you optimize your queries and throughput costs
Amazon DynamoDB supports PartiQL – a SQL-compatible query language that lets you query, insert, update, and delete table data in DynamoDB. Now DynamoDB PartiQL APIs support ReturnConsumedCapacity, an optional parameter that returns the total read and write capacity consumed, along with statistics for the table and any indexes involved in an operation, to help you optimize […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio extension now supports Visual Studio 2022
Download and install the Azure IoT Edge tools for Visual Studio extension that includes latest features and .NET 6 support in Visual Studio 2022. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Outposts now FedRAMP authorized
Today we are announcing AWS Outposts is now FedRAMP Moderate authorized for US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and FedRAMP High authorized for GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East). Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Charlotte, Detroit, Los Angeles and Minneapolis
Today, we are announcing the availability of four new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Charlotte, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. Wavelength Zones are now available in 17 major cities in the US, including the previously announced cities of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, New York City, […]