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Azure – Generally available: Switzerland North Availability Zones
Three new zones provide you with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Bastion IP based connection
You can now use Azure Bastion to connect to on-premises resources over ExpressRoute and Site-to-Site VPN Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Athena connector for Amazon Lookout for Metrics
AWS Lookout for Metrics announces the launch of the Athena connector, a new connector in Lookout for Metrics that allows you to query data from various data sources such as Data Lake on AWS, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift to ingest into Amazon Lookout for Metrics for anomaly detection. The Athena connector reduces the need to setup complex […]
AWS – AWS DataSync adds support for Amazon EFS security features
AWS DataSync now provides additional security options when moving data to and from Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). AWS DataSync is an online data movement service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data between on-premises, edge, or cloud storage and AWS Storage services. Amazon EFS is a serverless, fully elastic file system that makes […]
Azure – General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry
You can now browse for Microsoft artifacts and container images on the Microsoft Artifact Registry website. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts
AWS Marketplace introduces free trials for SaaS contracts so you can try products before you buy them. Previously, customers would either need to commit to a contract before trying the product, or go to third-party websites for free trials offered by software vendors directly. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IAM now supports WebAuthn and Safari browser for multi-factor authentication with security keys
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) standard for strong and phishing-resistant authentication across all supported browsers. WebAuthn is part of the FIDO2 set of specifications that succeed FIDO U2F API, enabling secure multi-factor authentication with security keys based on public key cryptography. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing granular instance sizing for Cloud Spanner, now run production workloads for as low as $40/month
Cloud Spanner is a relational database service that offers industry leading 99.999% availability, and near unlimited scale to handle even the most demanding of workloads. For these reasons, customers in various industries trust Spanner for their workloads with significant throughput requirements. We have heard from our customers that they would like to standardize on Spanner […]
AWS – AWS AppSync simplifies GraphQL API development with expanded GraphQL Utility Helper Library
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage GraphQL and Real-time APIs, allowing developers to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources via a single API endpoint. With GraphQL, special functions called Resolvers are used to implement business logic linking or “resolving” types, […]
AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager achieves ISO and SOC compliance
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) can now be used for workloads subject to Service Organization Control (SOC) compliance and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 27701 standards. Now, customers in finance, healthcare, and other regulated sectors can get insights into the security processes and controls […]