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AWS – Amazon ECS extensions for AWS CDK is now generally available
The Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) extensions module that extends the service construct in AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), is now generally available. The new Amazon ECS service construct for AWS CDK supports extensions that automatically add additional capabilities such as AWS App Mesh or FireLens to your containerized services using familiar programming […]

AWS – Move database migration tasks from one replication instance to another
Starting today, you can easily move your database migration tasks from one replication instance to another. To move, select the migration task and provide the target replication instance details. You can access this feature using AWS DMS Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. Once the migration task is moved to the target replication instance, you […]

AWS – AWS Migration Hub now includes network visualization to simplify and accelerate migration planning
Customers using the AWS Migration Hub to discover, plan, and track their migrations now have access to Migration Hub network visualization. Migration Hub network visualization is for migration experts and non-experts who want to quickly organize and validate their on-premises discovery data, and to build their migration plan. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing Video On Demand on AWS Foundation
Video on Demand on AWS Foundation solution provisions the AWS services required to build scalable, distributed VOD processing and delivery workflows. This solution is designed to help you quickly get started encoding video files with AWS Elemental MediaConvert. It can be easily customized and used as the starting point to create a more complex workflow. […]

AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches a new Edge location in Thailand
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through the new AWS edge location in Bangkok, Thailand. With this new edge location, AWS Global Accelerator further improves Internet performance for users in Thailand. AWS Global Accelerator is now available in more than 90 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 20 AWS Regions. Read […]

AWS – AWS KM – based Encryption is Now Available in Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). It provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to build, train, tune, debug, deploy, and monitor models. Starting today, you can encrypt your Amazon SageMaker Studio storage volumes with customer master keys […]

Azure – Cognitive Services Speech adds new Neural TTS voices and general availability of Neural TTS in containers
Speech service adds 10 new neural Text to Speech (TTS) voices and announces general availability of Neural TTS in containers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA backup – User management improvements
The permissions required by a Azure Backup user for SAP HANA backup is now much simpler and automatically handled by a simple script from Azure Backup. Read More for the details.

Azure – HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes with Premium Data Lake Storage Gen2 is now generally available
With Premium Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 support for accelerated writes HDInsight HBase cluster, customers can now have increased read performance compared to standard storage and also take advantage of Hierarchical namespace feature of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Read More for the details.
AWS – Pause and Resume Workloads on T3 and T3a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation
You can now hibernate newly-launched EBS-backed Amazon EC2 T3 and T3a instances. Hibernation provides you with the convenience of pausing your workloads and resuming them later from the saved state. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop lid — your application will start right from where it left off. Read More for the […]