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AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports UEFI boot when migrating virtual machines to EC2
Amazon EC2 now supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot when migrating virtual machines from on-premise to EC2 without having to convert them to Legacy BIOS. UEFI is a modern firmware that initializes your operating system. Read More for the details.

AWS – Sellers can now manage versions and update information of their AMI and Container products through the AWS Marketplace Catalog API
Today, AWS Marketplace announced that sellers can now manage versions and update product information for AMI and Container products through the AWS Marketplace Catalog API. This launch builds upon a prior release for self-service listing updates through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. Now, sellers can use the Catalog API to automate their workflows for making […]

AWS – AWS Client VPN announces expanded presence inside six AWS Regions
AWS Client VPN has expanded the number of Availability Zones supported inside the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Canada (Central) regions. This expansion gives you more zones to choose from and additional flexibility when associating subnets. This change also increases the number of […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Db2 LUW version 11.5 as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Db2 LUW version 11.5 as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from Db2 LUW version 11.5 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets. Read More for the details.

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 […]