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Azure – Azure Blob storage – Inventory generally availability
Administrators can enable a daily or weekly inventory to be created to gain understanding of their blobs and containers. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication during instance connectivity operations
Starting today, AWS customers can use ED25519 keys to prove their identity when connecting to EC2 instances. ED25519 is an elliptic curve based public-key system commonly used for SSH authentication. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transfer Family expands compatibility for FTPS/FTP clients and increases limit for number of servers
AWS Transfer Family now supports configuring a client side externally accessible IP address on an FTPS/FTP server, allowing clients behind a firewall or a NAT router to connect to the server. Additionally, customers can now easily scale up their workloads by creating up to 50 servers within AWS Transfer Family in a single AWS account […]

GCP – Unlocking Application Modernization with Microservices and APIs
If you build apps and services that your customers consume, two things are certain: You’re exposing APIs in some form or the other. Your apps are made by multiple functions working together to deliver products and services. As you scale up and grow, your enterprise architecture can benefit from a sound strategy for both API […]

AWS – Fully customizable action space now available in AWS DeepRacer Console
Today, we are excited to announce AWS DeepRacer model action space is now fully customizable. AWS DeepRacer is the fastest way to get started with machine learning (ML) through a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning, a 3D racing simulator, and a global racing league. Until now, AWS DeepRacer customers were […]

GCP – Build a reinforcement learning recommendation application using Vertex AI
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a form of machine learning whereby an agent takes actions in an environment to maximize a given objective (a reward) over this sequence of steps. Applications of RL include learning-based robotics, autonomous vehicles and content serving. The fundamental RL system includes many states, corresponding actions, and rewards to those actions. Translate […]

AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code. Developers can use Amazon CodeGuru Profiler to understand the runtime behavior of their applications, identify and remove code inefficiencies, improve performance, and significantly decrease compute costs. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 – v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support
During July, 2021, 6 new versions of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, .NET and Go were released (v1.111.0 through v1.116.0). With these releases, CDK Pipelines is generally available with a new API which makes it easier to define multi-environment deployment pipelines for cloud applications in all shapes and sizes. Additionally, the […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances
AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager, a capability in AWS Systems Manager (SSM) that helps you streamline and scale your remote server management processes, now offers the ability to generate at-a glance reporting on your SSM Managed Instances. The new feature enables you to customize the Fleet Manager information panel in which you can view alerts, […]