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AWS – AWS Backup provides new resource assignment rules for your data protection policies
AWS Backup introduces new resource assignment options that help make it easier to manage data protection of your applications at scale. The new resource assignment options allow you to define your selection criteria using AWS-supported resource types, a combination of AWS tags and Resource IDs, enabling you to automatically identify the AWS resources that store data […]

AWS – Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides customers enhanced visibility into the health of their compute infrastructure. Customers running containerized workloads using Amazon ECS on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or on-premises with Amazon ECS Anywhere can now query the health status of the container runtime (i.e Docker) for their container instances directly from the […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails
AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for detective guardrails to help expedite guardrail management. You can now enable multiple detective guardrails without needing to wait for individual guardrail operations to complete. AWS Control Tower provides customers with out-of-the-box preventive and detective guardrails that you can deploy to increase your security, operational, and compliance posture. Read […]

AWS – Announcing new deployment guardrails for Amazon SageMaker Inference endpoints
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports new model deployment options to update your machine learning models in production. Using the new deployment guardrails, you can easily switch from the current model in production to a new one in a controlled way. This launch introduces canary and linear traffic shifting modes so that you can have granular control over the shifting […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Archive rehydration priority update
Reduce high-priority retrieval costs for Archive Storage by deferring the decision to rehydrate with high priority, then updating the priority while the operation is pending. Read More for the details.

AWS – Manage Access Centrally for CyberArk Users with AWS Single Sign-On
Customers can now connect their CyberArk Workforce Identity (CyberArk) to AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) once, manage access to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable end users to sign in using CyberArk Workforce Identity to access all their assigned AWS accounts. The integration helps customers simplify AWS access management across multiple accounts while maintaining familiar […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches 4 new administration features including IP-based access restrictions and Bring-you-own-role for account setup
Amazon QuickSight now supports 4 new features that make it easier for AWS administrators to secure and roll out Amazon QuickSight to more users and accounts within their organizations – IP-based access restrictions, AWS Service Control Policy-based restrictions, automated email syncing for federated SSO users and bring-your-own-role during QuickSight account sign up. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace announces enhancements to change requests submission experience
AWS Marketplace sellers can now submit multiple, self-service change requests simultaneously using AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP) or AWS Marketplace Catalog API. Now, AWS Marketplace sellers can start multiple self-serve change requests for AMI, Container, Professional Services, and Machine Learning products via AMMP, and via the AWS Marketplace Catalog API for AMI, and Container products. […]

GCP – Using Firestore and Apache Beam for data processing
Large scale data processing workloads can be challenging to operationalize and orchestrate. Google Cloud announced the release of a Firestore in Native Mode connector for Apache Beam that makes data processing easier than ever for Firestore users. Apache Beam is a popular open source project that supports large scale data processing with a unified batch […]
Azure – Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Terraform support is generally available
Generate automated configuration files used with Terraform to automate provisioning and configuration on your Flexible Server for Azure Database for MySQL. Read More for the details.