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AWS – Amazon Location adds Suggestion capability
Today, Amazon Location Service is adding Suggestions functionality. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Monitor containers insights preview version for Azure Red Hat OpenShift v4.x will be retired by 31 May 2022
Transition to Container Insights by 31 May 2022. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.13, 10.4.22, 10.3.32, 10.2.41
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.13, 10.4.22, 10.3.32, and 10.2.41. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB […]

GCP – Cross-region and cross-project event routing with Eventarc and Pub/Sub
With event-driven architectures, it’s quite common to read events from a source in one region or project and route them to a destination in another region or another project. Let’s take a look at how you can implement cross-region and cross-project event routing in Google Cloud. Cross-region event routing is straightforward in Google Cloud, whether […]

AWS – AWS End-of-support Migration Program (EMP) Now Supports Assisted Packaging for applications without installation media
AWS EMP now supports packaging for end-of-support (EOS) Windows Server applications where installation media is not available, through a guided user interface (UI) experience. With today’s release of the Guided Reverse Packaging (GRP) feature, customers can input files and folders related to the application and the tool will automatically search for dependencies such as registry […]

AWS – AWS Toolkit for VS Code adds support for Amazon ECS Exec for troubleshooting Amazon ECS
The AWS Toolkit for VS Code now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to connect to Amazon ECS containers and issue commands using Amazon ECS Exec. This allows VS Code users to directly interact with containers, such as running commands in or get a shell to an ECS container running on an Amazon EC2 instance […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports application-level cost reporting
Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces a new feature for customers to report and visualize the cost of their applications through integration with AWS Cost Explorer. Application Manager is a central hub on AWS to create, view and operate applications from a single console. With Application Manager, customers can discover and manage […]

Azure – Azure Machine Learning – December 2021 general availability
A new feature now available in general availability includes Manage Azure Machine Learning resource using Hashicorp Terraform Read More for the details.

GCP – 5 key metrics to measure Cloud FinOps impact in your organization in 2022 and beyond
Value of Establishing a Baseline for Metrics As organizations continue to leverage cloud investments to drive their business growth and top line revenue, business, finance, and technology executives need to become increasingly connected in their efforts to deliver strong business outcomes. More than ever before, executives need to quantify the value of their investments in […]
GCP – Cloud IDS for network-based threat detection is now generally available
As more and more applications move to the cloud, cloud network security teams have to keep them secure against an ever-evolving threat landscape. Shielding applications against network threats is also one of the most important criteria for regulatory compliance. For example, effective intrusion detection is a requirement of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard […]