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GCP – .NET 5.0 on Google Cloud
A unified .NET .NET 5.0 was released just a few days ago with many new features, improvements, C# 9 support, F# 5 support, and more. .NET 5.0 is the first release of the unified .NET vision that was announced last year. Going forward, there will be just one .NET targeting Windows, Linux, macOS, and more. […]
Azure – Azure Site Recovery – Support for increased disk size in Azure VM disaster recovery is now generally available
Protect Azure VMs with increased disk sizes. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup and AWS Organizations bring cross-account backup feature
AWS Backup now supports cross-account backup, enabling AWS customers to securely copy backups across accounts within their AWS Organizations. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Europe(London) and Canada(Central) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, CPU-based machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management introduces new policy defaults for IAM user passwords
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now introduces new policy defaults for passwords of IAM users. This policy improves the default security for all AWS customers by ensuring customers set stronger passwords for IAM users in their AWS accounts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Textract now supports AWS Key Management Service
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract printed text, handwriting, and data from virtually any document. Today, we are pleased to announce that Amazon Textract supports encryption of its asynchronous API output stored in your Amazon S3 buckets using your own AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Customer Master Keys […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling announces support for multiple launch templates for Auto Scaling groups
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you configure your Auto Scaling group with multiple launch templates when you use a MixedInstancesPolicy and specify multiple instance types. After EC2 Auto Scaling released support for multiple instance types within a single Auto Scaling group, customers have been looking for ways to launch different instance types using different […]
AWS – Introducing the AWS Network Firewall – a new managed service to deploy network security across your Amazon VPCs with just a few clicks
AWS Network Firewall is a new AWS-managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all of your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). The service can be set up with just a few clicks and scales automatically with your network traffic, so you don’t have to worry about deploying and managing any […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Fleet now supports deleting instant type fleets
You now have an option to delete an instant type EC2 Fleet. All running instances associated with it will be terminated and the fleet will be deleted. Read More for the details.