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Azure – Custom AKS policy support – now public preview
Azure Policy and AKS teams announce the public preview of custom policy support for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. With this feature is enabled, you can create and assign custom policy definitions and constraint templates to their AKS clusters, see enhanced error state information for troubleshooting, use embedded constraint template inside policy definitions, and more. […]

Azure – General availability: Update in policy compliance for Azure Kubernetes Policies
Azure Kubernetes policies now surface error states to you, providing important information about potential errors in your environment. Read More for the details.

AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2021.2
NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.

AWS – NICE DCV releases web client SDK 1.0.3
NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps users to securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.

GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Recap
Over the past few weeks, we have been publishing videos and blogs that walk through the fundamentals of architecting and administering your BigQuery data warehouse. Throughout this series, we have focused on teaching foundational concepts and applying best practices observed directly from customers. Below, you can find links to each week’s content: Resource Hierarchy [blog]: […]

AWS – Amazon Polly offers full support in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into speech, extends its offering to the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Ayanda, Polly’s first South African English Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voice, as well as full support for the entire portfolio of Amazon Polly’s Neural and Standard voices in […]

AWS – AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink in previously unsupported Availability Zones
AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink in previously unsupported Availability Zones in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (São Paulo), Canada (Central), and EU (London) regions. With this launch, AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink in all Availability Zones in […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports M5d, R5, and P3dn instances for SageMaker Studio Notebooks
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports Amazon EC2 M5d, R5, and P3dn instances. Customers can launch SageMaker Studio Notebooks with these instances types in the regions where they are available. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Monitor support for Availability Zones
Azure Monitor support for Availability Zones (AZ) is now available on West US 2 and East US 2. Currently, only workspaces created on dedicated clusters can have AZ support, by selecting to use Availability Zones when creating the cluster. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation adds support for PCI-DSS v3.2.1 Security Standard
AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation solution is a reference implementation that includes a library of automated security response and remediation actions to common security findings. The solution makes it easier for customers to resolve common security findings and improve their security posture in AWS. Read More for the details.