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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.

Azure – Public preview: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
This support for BGP community tags on traffic sent from Azure to on-premises over ExpressRoute enables customers to set routing preferences and pursue a greater variety of hybrid network designs. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Bastion Standard SKU
Azure Bastion Standard SKU offers key capabilities for enterprises, unblocking critical customer scenarios. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Ignite, November 2021 public preview announcements
New feature Azure Arc-enabled machine learning inference and data labeling with text classification using ML Assist capabilities are now available in preview in Azure Machine Learning Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces native support for SQLAlchemy and Apache Airflow open-source frameworks
Native support for open source SQLAlchemy (sqlalchemy-redshift) and Apache Airflow frameworks are now available for Amazon Redshift. The updated Amazon Redshift dialect for SQLAlchemy supports the Amazon Redshift open source Python driver. With this release you can use single sign-on with your Identity Provider (IdP) to connect to Redshift clusters and avoid credential management pains. You can […]

Azure – Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Video Analyzer updates in public preview
Azure Video Analyzer now has new cloud-based capabilities that deliver low-latency available in preview. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Applied AI Services | Azure Cognitive Search updates now generally available
Azure Cognitive Search has expanded language and regional availability. Read More for the details.