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AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.6.0
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.6.0 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.6.0 includes several bug fixes and new features that improve performance. Some key features include native APIs to manage client quotas (KIP-546) and explicit rebalance triggering to enable advanced consumer usecases (KIP-568). For a […]
Azure – Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway in public preview
Take advantage of multiple new enhancements and features that are now available in Azure VPN Gateway. Read More for the details.
AWS – Pause and Resume Workloads on I3, M5ad, and R5ad Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation
You can now hibernate newly-launched EBS-backed Amazon EC2 I3, M5ad, and R5ad 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. By using hibernation, […]
Azure – Microsoft plans to establish new cloud datacenter region in Austria
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to follow. Read More for the details.
GCP – Meeting the need for speed with a cloud data warehouse
In our work with Google Cloud customers, we hear great stories of growth, change, and cloud success. We worked closely with Trendyol Group, a fast-growing e-commerce company based in Turkey, on their data warehouse migration project. Trendyol employs about 2,000 people, and the company’s e-commerce site gets about 50 billion page views per year, 5 […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches port overrides
AWS Global Accelerator announces the ability to override the destination ports used to route traffic to an application endpoint. This allows you to map a list of external destination ports — that your users send traffic to — to a list of internal destination ports that you want an application endpoint to receive traffic on. […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD
AWS Security Hub is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region operated by Sinnet and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.
AWS – Use existing Cognito User Pools & Identity Pools for your Amplify project
With today’s Amplify CLI release, you gain the ability to import existing Amazon Cognito resources into your Amplify project. Just run the “amplify import auth” command and Amplify CLI will automatically configure all your Amplify-provisioned resources (GraphQL APIs, S3 buckets and more) to be authenticated with your designated existing Cognito User Pool or Identity Pool. […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry in Preview
Today, we are announcing the availability in preview of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. Part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application monitoring. With AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry, you can instrument your […]
AWS – Now customize your Session Manager shell environment with configurable shell profiles
Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now enables you to customize the shell environment by specifying the commands to run at the start of a session. Using this feature, you can tailor the shell experience to the needs of your users or your organization, by adding customizations such as changing the default shell […]