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AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now HIPAA eligible to help you run healthcare workloads more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible to help you run healthcare workloads more easily. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud AI in the developer community
Editor’s note: This post features third party projects built with AI Platform. At Google I/O on May 18, 2021 Google Cloud announced Vertex AI, a unified UI for the entire ML workflow, which includes equivalent functionality from the AI Platform and new MLOps services. Most of the sample code and materials introduced in this post […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.0
You can now launch Apache Airflow 2.0 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.0 is the latest version of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports storing CRLs in private S3 buckets
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports using S3 Block Public Access when storing certificate revocation links (CRL) in S3 buckets. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR 6.3 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.1
Amazon EMR 6.3 release version now supports Apache Spark 3.1.1 and provides runtime performance improvements with EMR Runtime for Spark. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management
AWS Security Hub now supports a bidirectional integration with Atlassian Jira Service Management (JSM). You can now automatically create and update issues in Atlassian JSM from AWS Security Hub findings. Updates to those issues in Atlassian JSM will be synced with the findings in AWS Security Hub. This integration is available via the AWS Service Management […]

AWS – Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ is now available in a total of 22 regions, with the addition of the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Security Center integration with GitHub Actions, in public preview
GitHub’s integration with Azure Security Center is now in public preview—offering new ways for you to integrate security and compliance into early stages of the software development lifecycle. Read More for the details.

Azure – PowerShell support in Durable Functions is now generally available
PowerShell users can use Durable Functions create serverless workflows to orchestrate complex, long-running automation processes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Introducing new Durable Functions storage provider options
Durable Functions, an extension to the Azure Functions runtime, adds two new storage provider options in public preview. Read More for the details.