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AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink introduces custom maintenance windows in preview
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports UpdateApplicationMaintenanceConfiguration in preview. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics periodically patches the underlying infrastructure of applications with OS and container-image security updates to meet AWS compliance and security goals during the default maintenance windows in each region. You can use UpdateApplicationMaintenanceConfiguration via the CLI or the API to choose […]

GCP – This week’s stories from Google Cloud: April 30, 2021
Here’s a round-up of the key stories we published the week of April 30, 2021. Introducing Open Saves: Open-source cloud-native storage for games Open Saves is a brand-new, purpose-built single interface for multiple storage back ends that’s powered by Google Cloud and developed in partnership with 2K. Now, development teams can store game data without […]

AWS – AWS RoboMaker announces support for Robot Operating System (ROS) 2 Foxy and Gazebo 11
AWS RoboMaker, now supports ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy (ROS 2 Foxy), which is the latest long-term support (LTS) release for ROS 2, and its compatible simulation engine, Gazebo 11, and Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) operating system. Read More for the details.

AWS – New Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
AWS RoboMaker has released a new feature that enables developers to open a desktop session to the IDE and run graphical tools to interact with simulations. AWS RoboMaker IDE provides a cloud robotics workspace that is preconfigured with the essential tools to start building and testing robot applications without needing to provision additional hardware. This […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Implementation: AWS Blueprints
We are delighted to announce the addition of AWS Blueprints to the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. AWS Solutions Implementations help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Monitron Service is Now Available in the Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end system that uses machine learning (ML) to detect abnormal conditions in industrial equipment, enabling you to implement predictive maintenance and reduce unplanned downtime. It includes sensors to capture vibration and temperature data from equipment, a gateway device to securely transfer data to AWS, the Amazon Monitron service that analyzes the data […]

AWS – Amazon Connect reduces 26 rates in Latin America
Amazon Connect is announcing 26 telephony rate reductions for customers in Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Colombia from the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP deployments with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 and RHEL 8.2
AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to deploy SAP workloads using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.2. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate now allows you to configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate now lets you configure the size of ephemeral storage for your Tasks up to a maximum of 200GiB. All ephemeral storage on AWS Fargate continues to be encrypted by default with service-managed keys. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 Image Builder supports Auto Scaling launch template
Now on EC2 Image Builder, you can create a new version of your EC2 Auto Scaling launch template that references your latest Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Using Image Builder pipeline, you can easily create these new launch template versions with the latest AMI to be used across all your AWS regions. Read More for the […]