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AWS – AWS IoT Core’s Apache Kafka action now supports username and password authentication for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)
Customers using the AWS IoT Core Apache Kafka action to connect their IoT applications to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters can now use usernames and passwords to authenticate their rules. The Apache Kafka action for AWS IoT Core evaluates inbound messages and delivers them to your Amazon MSK or self managed […]

AWS – AWS Audit Manager now supports CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new standard framework
AWS Audit Manager now supports the CIS Benchmark for CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark v1.3.0, Level 1 and 2 as a new prebuilt standard framework. This framework adds to the existing prebuilt frameworks provided in Audit Manager. With this release, you can launch an assessment from this framework with just a few clicks. Audit […]

Azure – General availability: Enhanced Azure Dashboards experience for pinned Log Analytics parts
Log Analytics enhances pinned parts Azure Dashboards experience. Read More for the details.

GCP – Road to recovery: How Google Cloud is helping states get the COVID-19 vaccine to more people
Since the beginning stages of the pandemic, state and local governments have turned to technology to help deliver essential services to their residents, whether it’s unemployment assistance or access to COVID-19 testing. Now, state and local leaders are shifting their focus to getting vaccines to more people through mass vaccination initiatives. In February, we announced […]

GCP – The past, present and future of custom compute at Google
Since our inception more than two decades ago, Google has designed and built some of the world’s largest and most efficient computing systems to meet the needs of our customers and users. Custom chips are one way to boost performance and efficiency now that Moore’s Law no longer provides rapid improvements for everyone. Today, we […]

AWS – AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version
AWS Fargate platform version 1.4.0 is now the LATEST version. All new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks or ECS Services that use the Fargate launch type and have the platformVersion parameter set to LATEST or not specified will run on platform version 1.4.0. The new version has features such as Amazon Elastic File […]

Azure – HBv3-Series VMs now generally available in East US, South Central US, and West Europe
HBv3-series VMs for HPC now available in the East US, South Central US, and West Europe regions Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
AWS Proton introduces delete validations for templates in-use, ensuring that dependent resources are not orphaned if a template version is inadvertently deleted. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS reduces cluster creation time by 40%
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has reduced new cluster creation time by 40%, enabling you to create an EKS cluster in 9 minutes or less, on average. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in additional 9 regions
Starting today, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is available in the following 9 regions: US West (N. California) EU (London) EU (Paris) EU (Milano) Africa (Cape Town) Middle East (Baharain) Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Read More for the details.