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AWS – AWS Lake Formation is now available in the Europe (Milan) region
You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Europe (Milan) region. Read More for the details.
AWS – You now can restore Amazon DynamoDB table backups as new tables in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
You can use Amazon DynamoDB backup and restore to create on-demand and continuous backups of your DynamoDB tables—and then restore from those backups. You also can restore DynamoDB table backups as new tables in other AWS Regions. Starting today, you can restore table backups as new tables in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong […]
AWS – AWS Ground Station is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of AWS Ground Station to the Africa (Cape Town) region. This is now the seventh region within the AWS Global Infrastructure Network and the second region in the Southern hemisphere to offer AWS Ground Station. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 14 new controls to AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard
AWS Security Hub has released 14 new automated security controls for the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard related to AWS EC2 (EC2.7 and EC2.8), Amazon EMR (EMR.1), AWS KMS (KMS.1 and KMS.2), Amazon RDS (RDS.4, RDS.5, RDS.6, RDS.7, and RDS.8), Amazon S3 (S3.6), and AWS Secrets Manager (SecretsManager.1 and SecretsManager.2). Security Hub now supports […]
Azure – New maintenance control features
Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already available manual updates. Additionally, we are adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on Virtual Machine Scale Sets […]
AWS – Amazon RDS M6g and R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors: In preview and now supported on more database versions
AWS Graviton2-based database instances in preview for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now support more database versions. Graviton2 M6g and R6g database instances deliver better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based database instances. You can launch these database instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. With this launch, Graviton2 […]
AWS – New course on Coursera and edX: Building Modern Applications on AWS
AWS Training and Certification has launched a new course with three programming language options: Building Modern Java Applications on AWS, Building Modern Node.js Applications on AWS, and Building Modern Python Applications on AWS. Read More for the details.
Azure – COPY command now generally available in Azure Synapse Analytics
The COPY command can now automatically parse your files to calculate file splits and can evenly distribute data chunks across the Synapse SQL compute nodes for parallel ingestion. Read More for the details.
Azure – Windows IoT Microsoft Edge Kiosk Mode in public preview
Microsoft Edge can now be run in Kiosk mode on Windows IoT Read More for the details.
Azure – New MERGE command for Azure Synapse Analytics
Users can now synchronize two tables in a single step, streamlining the data processing using a single step statement while improving code readability and debugging. Read More for the details.