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AWS – AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based Envoy Images
AWS App Mesh now supports ARM64-based images with Envoy. With App Mesh-optimized ARM64 Envoy images, customers now get enhanced deployment flexibility and platform support to suit their requirements. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of […]

GCP – Edge computing—a paradigm shift that goes beyond hybrid cloud
Whether with the cloud or within their own data centers, enterprises have undergone a period of remarkable consolidation and centralization of their compute resources. But with the rise of ever more powerful mobile devices, and increasingly capable cellular networks, application architects are starting to think beyond the confines of the data center, and looking out […]

AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now includes an SMS simulator feature
Amazon Pinpoint now includes an SMS simulator feature that you can use to test how your application handles different SMS sending scenarios. With this feature, you can simulate deliveries by sending SMS messages to a destination phone number that Amazon Pinpoint provides. This enables you to see see examples of message delivery receipts per destination […]

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.