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Azure – General availability: Azure Route Server
Azure Route Server enables network appliances to exchange route information with Azure virtual networks dynamically. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview of Private Link Network Security Group Support
Network Security Group support on Private Endpoint (PE) will allow you to improve granular security requirements for traffic destined to a private endpoint. This will assist in meeting specific compliance and security requirements for managing your PE powered workloads. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview of Private Link UDR Support
User Defined Routes support on Private Endpoint will make configuring custom routes to traffic destined to a Private Endpoint easier for your large workloads. Learn more about how to use this feature in select regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports migrating multiple databases in one task using MongoDB as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands functionality by adding support for migrating multiple databases in one task using MongoDB and Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now group multiple databases of a MongoDB cluster and migrate them using one DMS task to any AWS DMS supported targets including […]

AWS – Amazon Monitron launches a new ethernet gateway device
Today, we are announcing the launch of Amazon Monitron Gateway (Ethernet), a new gateway device that allows customers to use their ethernet network to connect Monitron to the internet. The ethernet gateway joins the Wi-Fi gateway that was launched in December 2020, giving customers even more options for Amazon Monitron internet connectivity. Amazon Monitron is an […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports new minor versions 10.5.12, 10.4.21, 10.3.31, 10.2.40
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.12, 10.4.21, 10.3.31, and 10.2.40. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB […]

Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps August 2021 updates
With August updates, we added support for environment variables in Linux scale set agents. Now you can change the working directory of a Linux agent to use a faster drive than the OS drive. In addition, you can set a proxy to be used by the agent. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud improves Healthcare Interoperability on FHIR
The Importance of Interoperability In 2020 hospital systems were scrambling to prepare for COVID-19. Not just the clinicians preparing for a possible influx of patients, but also the infrastructure & analytics teams trying to navigate a maze of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. By default these EHRs are not interoperable, or able to speak to […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it […]
GCP – Traffic Director explained!
If your application is deployed in a microservices architecture then you are likely familiar with the networking challenges that come with it. Traffic Director helps you run microservices in a global service mesh. The mesh handles networking for your microservices so that you can focus on your business logic and application code, and that doesn’t […]