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Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Australia Southeast region
Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Australia Southeast. With this release Australia Southeast is now the second region within the Australian sovereign area to become available (joining Australia East). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Label Detection makes it easy for customers to detect thousands of objects, scenes, actions, or concepts found in an image or video based on its contents. For example, a […]
AWS – AWS License Manager announces distribution to AWS Organizations ID for AWS Marketplace customers
Today, AWS announced that AWS Marketplace customers can now distribute to their AWS Organizations ID using Managed entitlements in AWS License Manager. AWS Marketplace uses Managed entitlements to enable buyers to govern, track, and distribute entitlements from a centrally managed license. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012
AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables customers to upgrade SQL Server 2012 or later on Amazon EC2. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will reach extended end-of-support on 7/12/2022. Customers can use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to easily upgrade SQL Server 2012 to newer supported versions such as SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019. The […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now HIPAA eligible
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation service, is now AWS Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible, allowing healthcare and life science customers to build analytics and machine learning solutions for HIPAA workloads in conjunction with other HIPAA-eligible AWS services. Customers are able to leverage DataBrew’s 250+ no-code transformations to clean and normalize healthcare […]
Azure – Azure Automation support for User Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
Use user-assigned identities for Azure Automation runbook jobs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud Armor: enhancing security at the edge with Adaptive Protection, expanded coverage scope, and new rules
Cloud Armor, Google Cloud’s DDoS defense service and web-application firewall (WAF) helps customers protect their websites and services from denial of service and web attacks every day using the same infrastructure, network, and technology that has protected Google’s own internet-facing properties from the largest DDoS attacks reported. To stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape, […]
GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Jobs & reservation model
So far in our BigQuery Admin Reference Guide, we’ve discussed theBigQuery resource modeland talked through the different types of tables and routines. This week, we’re talking about execution and workload management resources within the hierarchy – jobs, commitments, reservations and assignments. As always, we’ll include links back to the documentation so you can walk through […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports custom time windows for Scheduled Events
Amazon EC2 now provides customers the flexibility to specify weekly recurring time window(s) for Scheduled Events that reboot, stop or terminate EC2 instances. AWS schedules infrequent events, such as a reboot, stop, or termination, for EC2 instances when it detects irreparable failure of the underlying host or when it must perform tasks such as maintaining […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Implementation: Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS
Today we are launching Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS into the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS is a serverless solution that provides a user interface for managing data in your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems. Deploying this solution allows you to seamlessly browse any EFS file […]