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Azure – Azure Maps Creator v1 will be retired on 6 September 2021
Transition to Azure Maps Creator v2 by 6 September 2021 Read More for the details.
Azure – Limited preview: Migrate your Azure Data Lake Storage from Gen1 to Gen2 using the Azure Portal
Use this simple experience to migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Service Bus support for large messages
You can now send and receive message payloads of up to 100MB in Azure Service Bus premium tier namespaces. Read More for the details.
AWS – Mark individual best practices as not applicable within the AWS Well-Architected Tool
The AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) now offers the ability for customers and AWS Partners to mark individual best practices as not applicable during their workload review. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Certificate Manager provides expanded usage of imported ECDSA and RSA Certificates
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now allows you to import Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) X.509 certificates of additional key types and key sizes, including Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) and RSA 3072 and 4096 keys and bind them with integrated services like Amazon CloudFront and Application Load Balancer. Previously, you could use AWS […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports ECDSA certificates for HTTPS connections to viewers
Starting today, you can use Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) P256 certificates to negotiate HTTPS connections between your viewers and Amazon CloudFront. As noted by NIST, ECDSA certificates can provide comparable security strength with smaller key sizes than RSA. As a result, conducting TLS handshakes with ECDSA certificates requires less networking and computing resources […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Principal Store for secure search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lightsail now offers object storage for storing static content
Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to store your static content such as images, videos or HTML files in an object storage that can be used for your websites and applications. Lightsail object storage can be associated to your Lightsail CDN distribution with a few simple clicks, making it quick and easy to accelerate […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder now supports parameters in components for creating custom images
Image Builder components, which are a set of documents that enable image customization in EC2 Image Builder, now support parameters as an input in the image build process. You can now reuse your existing component investments in EC2 Image Builder to create different custom images by easily passing component parameters, such as installation directory or […]