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AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx now supports FIPS 140-2 validated endpoints
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, now offers Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to help you protect sensitive information. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive […]

AWS – Announcing CDK Support for AWS Chalice
AWS Chalice now integrates with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). With CDK integration, you can now combine the familiar, decorator-based APIs of Chalice to write your application code with the entire CDK constructs to define your service infrastructure. This enables you to deploy your serverless application as a single, cohesive stack using the CDK. […]

AWS – Resource Groups Tagging API launches ResourceARNList parameter for the GetResources operation
The GetResources operation of the Resource Groups Tagging API helps you return all the tagged or previously tagged resources located in the specified region in an AWS account. The GetResources operation now supports the ResourceARNList parameter. This new parameter accepts a list of up to 100 Amazon Resource Names (ARNs), and returns a list of the specified […]

AWS – Amazon ECS announces increased service quotas for tasks per service and services per cluster
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today increased the default service quotas for ECS tasks per service and services per cluster. You can now launch up to 5,000 tasks per service and 5,000 services per cluster, an increase from 2,000 each. Read More for the details.

AWS – New AWS IoT Device Client simplifies onboarding to AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device Defender
AWS IoT is excited to announce the launch of the AWS IoT Device Client. This provides a free, open-source, and modular device-side reference implementation written in C++ that you can compile and install on Embedded Linux based IoT devices, allowing you to easily access AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, and AWS IoT Device […]

Azure – Azure Boards – New enhancements to Delivery Plans 2.0
In this sprint, we’re enhancing Delivery Plans 2.0 with new condensed views and rollup information. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Cloud SQL freed Arcules to keep building
Editor’s note: Arcules, a Canon Company, delivers the next generation of cloud-based video monitoring, access control, and video analytics—all in one unified, intuitive platform. Here, we look at how they turned to Google Cloud SQL’s fully managed services so they could focus more of their engineers’ time on improving their architecture. As the leading provider […]

AWS – Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android now support screen share
The Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android now enables developers to support screen sharing in their iOS and Android applications. The Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS and Android support screen share as a second video stream, in addition to the audio and camera video stream. Screen sharing for the Amazon Chime SDKs for iOS […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports version 10.5.8
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB version 10.5.8 in all AWS regions. This release includes fixes to bugs in MariaDB 10.5.7 affecting point-in-time restore, data replication, and tables with triggers that caused database crashes and data corruption. To read more about this version, please see the release notes for MariaDB […]