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Azure – General availability: ExpressRoute Global Reach Pricing Reduction
ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits together to make a private network between your on-premises networks. The data transfer price for this offering is now 50% lower. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Key Rotation and Expiration Policies for Azure Storage
Access Key Expiration and Policy support for Azure Storage Accounts Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions
Starting today, Amazon EMR Studio is available in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, and Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch releases a C# client library for Embedded Metric Format
CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format enables you to ingest complex high-cardinality application data in the form of logs and easily generate actionable metrics from them. It has traditionally been hard to generate actionable custom metrics from your ephemeral resources such as Lambda functions, and containers. By sending your logs in the Embedded Metric Format, you can […]

Azure – Azure Maps Creator is now generally available
Azure Maps Creator provides an end-to-end solution for private indoor maps. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune
Starting today, you can launch your RDF/SPARQL or Apache TinkerPop graph application using R5d instances on Amazon Neptune. The R5d instance type is based on the Amazon EC2 Nitro System and includes local NVMe-based SSD block level storage. Neptune R5d instances introduce a lookup cache that leverages the low-latency NVMe SSD storage to improve read […]

AWS – AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings
AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify the settings for your streaming extract-transform-and-load (ETL) job in the visual job editor. This feature allows you to optimize your AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs for your use case. You can choose the window size for reading data from the data stream, whether to detect the schema […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster
Amazon Neptune has simplified the console experience for creating Neptune clusters and Neptune notebooks. The new experience allows you to provision a new cluster and a new notebook instance at the same time. Now, customers only need to take one step to get started with Amazon Neptune. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Backint Agent version 1.04 now available
AWS Backint Agent version 1.04 is now available in all commercial regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps Delivery Plans 2.0
With this update, we are including changes to Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. You can now get total capacity for all teams in an iteration. In addition, we are previewing support for templates in the YAML editor. Read More for the details.