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AWS – AWS WAF Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Starting today, AWS WAF is available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in South America (Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US) 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 […]

AWS – AWS OpsHub for AWS Snow Family is now available for Linux
AWS OpsHub now supports the Linux operating system. AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in AWS OpsHub, you have the full functionality […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports parallel apply when using Redshift as a target during on-going replications
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded its functionality by supporting parallel apply when using Redshift as a target during on-going replications. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. By […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty adds three new threat detections to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
Amazon GuardDuty introduces three new threat detections that inform you when data residing in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets is accessed from an IP address associated with known malicious actors on the internet. These threat detections are available to customers that have enabled S3 protection in GuardDuty, and represent the latest in a […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in South America (Sao Paulo)
Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) region. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower
High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Logicworks, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. High-Governance Foundation with AWS Control Tower accelerates the design and build-out of cloud architecture that can scale to support multiple teams, applications, or tenants. Customers that request this consulting offer will […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports MariaDB version 10.4
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MariaDB version 10.4. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from any AWS DMS supported sources to MariaDB 10.4 databases, and from MariaDB 10.4 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Automation Python 3 runbook support is now available in public preview
Execute Python 3 runbooks in Cloud Sandbox and Hybrid Worker. Read More for the details.
GCP – Application rationalization: Why you need to take this first step in your migration journey
Application rationalization is a process of going over the application inventory to determine which applications should be retired, retained, reposted, replatformed, refactored or reimagined. This is an important process for every enterprise in making investment or divestment decisions. Application rationalization is critical for maintaining the overall hygiene of the app portfolio irrespective of where you […]