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AWS – AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Wavelength in London
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Vodafone 4G/5G network in London. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), enterprises, and developers can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in London to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and users in the United Kingdom. Read More for the details.

Azure – New Azure private MEC solution announced
Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC) enables operators and systems integrators to simplify the consumption of secure and private 5G networks, and to easily deliver ultra-low-latency networking, applications, and services at the enterprise edge. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager enables granular access control with additional managed permissions
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) helps you securely share your resources across AWS accounts within your organization or organizational units (OUs) in AWS Organizations, and now also with IAM roles and IAM users for supported resource types. Also with this release, AWS RAM now provides additional managed permissions that you can use to define access […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports more flexibility for CAs shared across accounts
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) has extended support for sharing CAs via Resource Access Manager (RAM). Customers can now share CAs across accounts to issue certificates defined as client only TLS and server only TLS, as well as fully customizable certificates. Customer’s can also choose to share a CA to allow issuance of CA […]

AWS – Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes Version 1.4.0 with Ingress Enhancements
AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes v1.4.0 is now available and includes support for enhanced ingress traffic management capabilities. The AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes provides a way to configure and manage AWS App Mesh using Kubernetes directly. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services […]

Azure – General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—May 2021
May updates include device template DTDL editing, displaying external content on dashboards, other UI and doc enhancements, and CDE parity with CDE v1. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Australia
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in Australia Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud Run: A story of serverless containers
Mindful Containers is a fictitious company that is creating containerized microservice applications. They need a fully managed compute environment for deploying and scaling serverless containerized microservices. So, they are considering Cloud Run. They are excited about Cloud Run because it abstracts away the cluster configuration, monitoring, and management so they can focus on building the […]

AWS – Amazon Polly Launches a new German Neural Text-to-Speech voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) version of Vicki, a German Polly voice. Now, Amazon Polly customers can enjoy Vicki either as an NTTS or a Standard German voice. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules now generally available
Start using or migrating to the new Azure Monitor Agent and Data Collection Rules in your production environments to leverage key new capabilities and save on ingestion costs. With support for private links and direct proxies coming soon, you would be able to use these features without compromising on your networking requirements. Read More for […]