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AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions
AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to replicate secrets across multiple AWS Regions. You can now give your multi-Region applications access to replicated secrets in the corresponding Regions and rely on AWS Secrets Manager to keep the replicas in sync with the primary secret. In scenarios such as disaster recovery, you can read replicated secrets from […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Purview Bulk Edit enhancements
Azure Purview’s bulk editing capability for data assets now supports classifications and contacts along with glossary terms. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Sphere version 21.02 is now available
The 21.02 release includes new features in the Azure Sphere CLI v2 and promotion from Beta to release. Read More for the details.

GCP – Costs meet code with programmatic budget notifications
TL;DR – More than just alerts, budgets can also send notifications to Pub/Sub. Once they’re in Pub/Sub, you can hook up all kinds of services to react to them. You can use the information about the budget along with some code to do just about anything. Programmatic budget notifications can help you automate and fits […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 P4d Instances now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: New Simplified NSX networking experience for Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution helps simplify migration to the cloud by running VMware environments natively on Azure. With the new simplified NSX networking experience, it is now easier for VMware administrators to execute networking operations for Azure VMware Solution from the Azure portal. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3.16xlarge and RA3.4xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and RA3.xlplus in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift RA3.16xlarge and RA3.4xlarge nodes are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. In addition, the smallest RA3 node type, RA3.xlplus, is also now available in five additional AWS regions. RA3.xlplus is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Bombay) and EU (Frankfurt, London, Stockholm), in addition to the previously available regions Asia Pacific […]

AWS – AWS Solutions: Serverless Bot Framework adds Amazon Lex V2 Console and API integration for an improved bot building experience
AWS has updated Serverless Bot Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that automatically sets up a chatbot application with sample interactions. This update enables customers to build and iterate on their chatbots faster. The new functionalities help customers scale the use of their chatbots with additional languages and support for more natural conversations. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions
Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.