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Azure – Azure Purview available in public preview in South Central US and Canada Central
Azure Purview is now available in the South Central US and Canada Central Azure regions. You can now provision Azure Purview accounts in these regions as a public preview offering. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue Studio now supports reading uncatalogued data from Amazon S3 and inferring its schema
AWS Glue now supports reading data stored in Amazon S3 without first adding it to the AWS Glue Data Catalog. This feature makes it fast to start authoring Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and ELT jobs in AWS Glue Studio by allowing you to use locations and objects in Amazon S3 directly as data sources. […]

AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports 10DLC and toll-free numbers
Amazon Pinpoint now includes the ability to register Ten-Digit Long Codes (10DLC), and purchase toll-free phone numbers. Both 10DLC phone numbers and toll-free numbers are used to send SMS text messages to recipients in the United States. Both of these types of phone numbers enable you to send Application-to-Person (A2P) messages with improved delivery rates […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS messages to US destinations using ten-digit long codes and toll-free numbers
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports ten-digit long codes (10DLC) and toll-free numbers (TFN) for sending SMS text messages from businesses to consumers in the US. These new origination ID types enable SNS customers to send messages using a phone number that is unique to them, and provide improved delivery rates. Read More […]

Azure – Additional IOPS feature for MySQL – Flexible Server in preview
MySQL – Flexible Server supports the provisioning of additional IOPS (preview) so you can provision more IOPS above the complimentary IOPS limit and can increase or decrease the number of IOPS based on workload requirements. Read More for the details.

Azure – New disk bursting metrics
New disk bursting metrics that help you gain insight into your disks IO and bandwidth limits for your provisioned and bursting performance and inform you of how much of your bursting credit have been used. These allow you to see your disk’s limits for performance as well as see how you have been using your […]

Azure – Cross Region Restore of Azure VMs now generally available
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) support using Microsoft Azure Backup. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Application Insights auto-instrumentation for .NET5 App Services
Azure Monitor application insights now offers auto-instrumentation for .NET5 based Windows App Services. Read More for the details.

Azure – Application Insights availability troubleshooting report for URL tests
Azure Monitor Application Insights has released a troubleshooting report for URL ping web tests to help quickly identify the root cause behind a test failure. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Application Insights synthetic monitoring SLA report template
Azure Monitor Application Insights has released a new report template to enable easy reporting of your web tests across Application Insights resources that includes several key features like total application downtime, maintenance data exclusion, and end to end outage identification. Read More for the details.