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AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure monitor for containers now supports Pods & Replica set live logs in AKS resource view
View live logs of your pods & replica-sets in Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) resource view. Filter, search, and troubleshoot your pods and replica-sets. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization
AWS Proton has made two new fields, service_instance and service_instance_name, available as inputs for the Jinja parametrization of templates. Template writers can use these fields to name individual resources in the template without requiring additional inputs from developers. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines
AWS Proton now allows you to define services that do not include pipelines, giving developer and platform teams flexibility in defining, provisioning, and deploying their services. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton now supports tagging capabilities
AWS Proton now supports tagging of AWS Proton resources and tag-based access control. AWS Proton also tags all provisioned resources automatically with identifiers. You can now group and control your AWS Proton resources using tags, and track down all AWS resources provisioned through AWS Proton, including their costs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Quicksight Launches Sankey Diagram, Field folders and more
Amazon Quicksight now supports Sankey diagram. Sankey diagram is used to depict a flow from one set of values to another like customer journey, cash flows, process flow, or analysis of an energy system. For example, a Sankey diagram can show the path a web visitor takes from one page to the next on a […]

GCP – 5-ish ways to get your data into Cloud Storage
Would you rather listen than read? Check out our new tech blog podcast. So you’ve created your buckets, and now you want to use the power of the cloud to serve your content. With a can-do attitude and the details of this post, you’ll learn how to get your data into Cloud Storage with a variety […]

AWS – AWS Shield Advanced now supports resource tagging
AWS Shield Advanced now supports tagging of protected resources and protection groups. You can use tagging to restrict the ability to create or modify protections to sensitive resources via IAM policies, or to organize and track your AWS Shield Advanced costs at the tag level. Resource tagging allows you to define custom names for protected […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports creation and management of add-ons using AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to create and manage EKS add-ons using AWS CloudFormation. EKS add-ons provide lifecycle management for Kubernetes operational software, making it easy to consistently start and update common and critical add-on software for your EKS clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender now supports CloudFormation
AWS IoT Device Defender now supports AWS CloudFormation for creating and configuring AWS IoT Device Defender resources such as scheduled audits and Security Profiles in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Read More for the details.