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AWS – AWS Control Tower now provides bulk account update
AWS Control Tower now includes the ability for you to update up to 300 accounts in a registered AWS organizational unit (OU) with a single click from the AWS Control Tower console. This is particularly useful in cases where you update your AWS Control Tower landing zone and must also update your enrolled accounts to […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now extends governance to existing OUs in your AWS Organizations
You can now extend AWS Control Tower governance to existing AWS organizational units (OUs) from within the AWS Control Tower console. This feature allows you to bring your top-level OUs and included accounts under AWS Control Tower governance. When you register an Organizational Unit, AWS Control Tower will perform a series of checks to ensure […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now adds Fluent Bit support for container logs from Amazon EKS and Kubernetes
AWS announces the availability of Fluent Bit support for Amazon CloudWatch, a fully managed, pay-as-you-go monitoring and observability service for resources running on AWS and on-premises. CloudWatch Container Insights and Log Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your container logs collected from the Fluent Bit processor. Container Insights also provides access to the […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now available in Canada, Frankfurt, London, Stockholm and Singapore AWS Regions
AWS Control Tower is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). AWS Control Tower is also available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). With this launch, AWS Control Tower is now available […]

GCP – Eventarc brings eventing to Cloud Run and is now GA
Back in October, we announced the public preview of Eventarc, as new eventing functionality that lets developers route events to Cloud Run services. In a previous post, we outlined more benefits of Eventarc: a unified eventing experience in Google Cloud, centralized event routing, consistency with eventing format, libraries and an ambitious long term vision. Today, […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12
Starting today, you can perform an in-place upgrade of your Amazon Aurora database cluster from PostgreSQL major version 11 to 12. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports major version 12. PostgreSQL 12 includes better index management, improved partitioning capabilities, and the ability to execute JSON path queries per SQL/JSON specifications. It also enables nondeterministic collations that support case-insensitive and accent-insensitive comparisons for ICU provided collations, most common-value statistics for improved query plans, creation of generated […]

Azure – Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement
Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview. New deployments will no longer be available but we will continue to support existing deployments until April 28, 2021. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Marketplace announces support for multiple Private Marketplace catalogs
Today, AWS Marketplace announced support for multiple Private Marketplace catalogs, which allows customers to create unique sets of approved software available in AWS Marketplace for different AWS accounts within their organization. Before today, customers were limited to one Private Marketplace catalog per AWS account structure. This launch expands AWS Marketplace’s Private Marketplace functionality to empower […]
GCP – Introducing Sqlcommenter: An open source ORM auto-instrumentation library
Object-relational mapping(ORM) helps developers to write queries using an object-oriented paradigm, which integrates naturally with application code in their preferred programming language. Many full-stack developers rely on ORM tools to write database code in their applications, but since the SQL statements are generated by the ORM libraries, it can be harder for application developers to […]