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Azure – Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview
Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage. Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types
Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types – C6gd, M6gd, R6gd, C6gn,C5a, C5ad, d3, d3en, m5zn and R5b. These instances are supported in all commercial regions where the instances are available. Amazon EMR 5.33 ships with Apache Hudi 0.7.0, ApacheFlink 1.12.1, PrestoDB 0.245 and Zeppelin 0.9.0. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Textract achieves FedRAMP compliance
Amazon Textract has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization, approved by the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB), for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Additionally, Amazon Textract is now authorized in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions under FedRAMP Moderate. Read […]

GCP – What no-code automation looks like with AppSheet
As developers, we talk about automation in the context of technology as often as your friends might talk about Bitcoin — and for good reason: automation has spanned the farthest corners of cloud computing, from infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and DevOps to machine learning and even billing management. It’s making life easier for infrastructure […]

AWS – You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity
You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane APIs—GetRecords and GetShardIterator—to monitor and investigate item-level changes in your DynamoDB tables. Previously, you could use CloudTrail to log DynamoDB Streams control-plane activity (and not data-plane activity) on your DynamoDB tables. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite
Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions
Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov Read More for the details.

AWS – Now visualize and report patch compliance using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager
IT admins and security teams can now view, analyze, and report on the patch compliance of their environment from a single dashboard using Patch Manager. The Patch Manager dashboard provides you with enhanced reporting capabilities and integrates key patching information such as non-compliant instances and instances never scanned for patches into a single pane of […]

AWS – Amazon Rekognition launches tagging support for collections, stream processors, and Custom Labels
You can now assign tags to Amazon Rekognition resources such as collections, stream processors, and Custom Labels models. Tags are key value pairs which enable you to control access to your AWS resources. You can easily identify, classify, or categorize your Amazon Rekognition resources as you create them, giving you a convenient way to ensure […]
AWS – AWS Chatbot now expands coverage of AWS Services monitored through Amazon EventBridge
AWS Chatbot customers can now receive notifications in chat channels from an expanded range of AWS services through Amazon EventBridge. AWS Chatbot allows users to monitor and interact with AWS resources directly from Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. Read More for the details.