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AWS – Announcing General Availability of AWS Fault Injection Simulator, a fully managed service to run controlled experiments
AWS Fault Injection Simulator is a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS that makes it easier to continuously improve an application’s performance, observability, and resiliency. Read More for the details.
AWS – New digital course: Amazon S3 Cost Optimization
We’re excited to announce a free digital course: Amazon Simple Storage Service Cost Optimization. This advanced 60-minute course explores techniques and tools you can use to optimize your Amazon S3 costs. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations engineers, it includes interactive lessons and video demonstrations. Read More for the details.
Azure – Brazil South Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in the Brazil South region. These three new zones provide customers with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.
GCP – Albertsons Companies helps customers find COVID-19 vaccines with Business Messages
Since the release of initial COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020, online searches for vaccines have surged. While vaccines are becoming more broadly available, many people still have questions about eligibility criteria, as well as where and how vaccine appointments can be made. Meanwhile, for some vaccine administrators, there is no centralized process or call center […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces Amazon ECS Exec – a simple, secure, and auditable way for customers to execute commands in a container running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or AWS Fargate. ECS Exec gives you interactive shell or single command access to a running container making it easier to debug […]
AWS – AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager
AWS Config now supports three new AWS Config managed rules to help you verify that your secrets in AWS Secrets Manager are configured in accordance with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. AWS Config records and evaluates configurations of your AWS resources. AWS Config managed rules are predefined rules that AWS Config uses to evaluate […]
AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports provisioning cost monitors and alert subscriptions via AWS CloudFormation templates. You can now set up Cost Anomaly Detection via JSON or YAML commands, enabling quick, consistent, and scalable configurations across AWS accounts. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), North America (Montreal), and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics and machine learning, is now available in the following three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul) North America (Montreal) South America (Sao Paulo) Read More for the details.
AWS – Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces bundle management APIs are now available for customers to perform WorkSpaces bundle operations via command-line interface (CLI). The new set of APIs support creation, deletion, and image association operations for WorkSpaces bundles. These APIs are intended for use by WorkSpaces administrators who want to automate WorkSpaces management workflows. Read More for the details.
GCP – Reduce Deprecation Stress: Understand SDK Dependencies in Google Maps Platform
To improve Google Maps Platform for developers and end users, sometimes we need to deprecate existing functionality. For example, last year when many establishments closed temporarily to limit the spread of COVID-19, we introduced the business_status field to describe a place’s status in a non-binary way and deprecated the permanently_closed field because it cannot accurately […]