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Azure – Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines now generally available
Azure offers trusted launch as a seamless way to bolster the security of Generation 2 VMs. Designed to protect against boot kits, rootkits, and kernel-level malware, trusted launch is comprised of secure boot, virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), and boot integrity monitoring. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration
General availability of Azure API Management to publish events in Event Grid. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Run Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service
An automated solution template to run Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), jointly developed with Oracle, is now available in the Azure Marketplace. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on ARO and AKS
Automated solution templates to run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), jointly developed with IBM, are now available in the Azure Marketplace. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager increases secrets limit to 500K per account
AWS Secrets Manager now supports a limit of up to 500,000 secrets per account per region, up from 40,000 secrets in the past. This simplifies secrets management for software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) applications that rely on unique secrets for large numbers of end customers. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports exporting database logs to Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts can now export database logs to Amazon CloudWatch. You can now monitor all of your Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts database instances from the same single pane of glass as your Amazon RDS database instances in our AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Corretto 17 Support Roadmap Announced
On September 16th we announced GA of Corretto 17. Today, we are pleased to announce that we will be providing Long-Term Support (LTS) for Corretto 17 until September 2028. We will also be moving to a new 2-year cadence for Corretto LTS releases, along with the rest of the OpenJDK community, as of this release. […]
AWS – Amazon DevOps Guru increases coverage of Amazon EKS metrics and adds metric view by cluster
Amazon DevOps Guru now supports additional metrics at the node and pod-level for clusters managed by Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Read More for the details.
Azure – Automatic VM guest patching is now generally available
Automatic VM guest patching provides safe and automatic patching for virtual machines to simplify update management and maintain security compliance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: ExpressRoute FastPath improvements
ExpressRoute FastPath now supports more network scenarios, enabling customers with more complex Azure environments to unlock the benefits of FastPath. Read More for the details.