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Azure – General availability: Increased connection limit for VPN Gateways
VPN Gateways can now support up to 100 Site-to-Site/VNet-to-VNet connections for some VPN Gateway SKUs. Read More for the details.

Azure – Dynamic allocation for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse now generally available
Expanded options for autoscale for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse are now available through dynamic allocation of executors. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection on metric math expressions
Amazon CloudWatch now supports anomaly detection based on metric math expressions. Amazon CloudWatch anomaly detection allows you to apply machine-learning algorithms to continuously analyze system and application metrics, determine a normal baseline, and surface anomalies with minimal user intervention. CloudWatch metric math allows you to aggregate and transform metrics to create custom visualizations of your […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports cross account registration of model versions
Amazon SageMaker Model Registry, the purpose-built service which enables customers to catalogue their ML models, now supports cross account registration of model versions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS for Windows now supports ECS Exec
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Amazon ECS Exec for workloads running on Windows operating systems. Amazon ECS Exec, launched in March 2021, makes it easier for customers to troubleshoot errors, collect diagnostic information, interact with processes in containers during development, or get “break-glass” access to containers to debug critical issues encountered in production. […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCv3-series now available in Europe West and North
Confidential computing DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Europe West and Europe North. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now delivers strong consistency automatically for all applications
Amazon S3 on Outposts now delivers strong read-after-write and list-after-write consistency for any storage request at no additional cost. Read More for the details.

GCP – Microservices architecture on Google Cloud
The evolution of technologies such as containerization, container orchestration, and cloud-native serverless services has given us the ability to develop distributed solutions based on microservices architectures that are both more scalable and more reliable. Click to enlarge What is microservices architecture? Microservices architecture (often shortened to microservices) refers to an architectural style for developing applications. […]

AWS – AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in preview
Today, we are announcing the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags, which will enable you to move faster and safer while releasing new features to your customers. Feature flags allow you to release features to your applications, independent of code deployments. Development teams often coordinate application feature releases along with a large-scale marketing event and […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL major version 8.0. MySQL 8.0 includes improved performance functionality from enhancements such as instant DDL to speed up the overall process of creating and loading a table and its associated indexes and SKIP LOCKED and NOWAIT options to avoid waiting for other transactions to release row locks. MySQL […]