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Azure – Backup for Azure Managed Disk is now generally available
Azure Disk Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy. Read More for the details.

Azure – Encryption scopes in Azure Storage now generally available
Encryption scopes enable you to provision multiple encryption keys to manage encryption at the container or blob level. Customers and ISVs can now use a single storage account for multi-tenancy scenarios by provisioning separate encryption keys for each customer. The key that protects an encryption scope may be either a Microsoft-managed key or a customer-managed key in Azure Key Vault. Read More for the details.

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Pipeline Factory
Pipeline Factory is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Mphasis Stelligent, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Pipeline Factory enables DevOps teams to define, build, and publish standardized pipelines that enforce quality, security, and governance throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement […]

AWS – CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region. Using Container Insights, DevOps and systems engineers can monitor, isolate, and diagnose containerized applications and microservices environments through automated dashboards. This helps you visualize the performance and health of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate […]

GCP – Data Lake management just got easier with Dataproc Metastore GA
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Dataproc Metastore. A fully managed, serverless technical metadata repository based on the Apache Hive metastore. Enterprises building and migrating open source data lakes to Google Cloud now have a central and persistent metastore for their open source data analytics frameworks. A completely serverless, no hassle […]

GCP – This bears repeating: Introducing the Echo subsea cable
It’s an old story, but one that bears repeating: Google works hard to build infrastructure that connects people, geographies, and businesses. Today, we’re announcing Google’s investment in Echo, a new subsea cable from the United States to Asia. Echo will run from Eureka, California to Singapore, with a stop-over in Guam, with plans to also […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), enabling applications to achieve the performance of an on-premises machine learning training cluster, with the scalability, flexibility, and elasticity provided by Kubernetes clusters managed by EKS. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports P4d instances
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports adding Amazon EC2 P4d instances as worker nodes to clusters in regions where P4d is available. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon WorkDocs offers additional sharing controls throughout its Android app
Starting today, you are now offered additional file and folder sharing controls on your Amazon WorkDocs Android application. With this release, you can now share a folder as well as edit sharing permissions such as adding or removing members of the shared folder. You can also share a link as well as manage shared links […]
Azure – Public preview: Service Tags for User Defined Routing
Simplify route creation and management by using Service Tags to represent multiple IP ranges in a single route. Utilize over 60 tags representing ranges for Microsoft and Azure service. Read More for the details.