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AWS – Introducing EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation for EC2 Spot Instances
Starting today, you can proactively rebalance your workloads running on EC2 Spot Instances without having to wait until the Spot Instance receives a two minute Instance interruption notice. You now have access to a new feature called “EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation”, a signal that notifies you when a Spot Instance is at elevated risk of […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now supports AWS Wavelength Zones
Starting today, Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations are now supported with AWS Wavelength Zones. Customers can now reserve capacity for their Amazon EC2 instances for any duration. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Marketplace enables vendor-provided cost allocation tags, enhancing visibility into software costs for analysis, allocation, and optimization
Today, AWS Marketplace announced the ability for independent software vendors (ISVs) to provide tags corresponding to the metered usage of their software. Customers can enable the vendor provided tags as cost allocation tags to gain visibility into third-party software spend. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports StackSet instance operations
AWS Service Catalog now supports Stack Set instance operations. With this new feature, end-users can control the individual instances for their StackSets, within the constraints specified by their AWS Service Catalog administrator. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EventBridge is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications using data from a variety of data sources. Amazon EventBridge enables you to build event-driven architectures that are loosely coupled and distributed. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server in Azure VM and SAP HANA
Soft Delete for Azure Backup for SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports German, Italian and 2 more AWS regions for streaming audio
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce German and Italian language support for streaming audio. We are also announcing availability of Amazon Transcribe streaming in the EU (London) and EU (Frankfurt) regions. These new languages […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch launches Metrics Explorer
Amazon CloudWatch launches Metrics Explorer – a tag-based dashboard tool that enables customers to filter, aggregate, and visualize operational health and performance metrics by tags. Metrics Explorer provides customers with a flexible troubleshooting experience, allowing them to build their tag-based application health dashboards, identify correlations, and quickly analyse their operational data to pinpoint issues. These […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub adds five new integrations and a new consulting partner
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with 3CORESec, Cloudtamer, Prowler, StackRox, and ThreatModeler. Further, Amazon GuardDuty’s integration with AWS Security Hub is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). Lastly, AllCloud is now an AWS Security Hub APN Consulting Partner. This brings the total number of AWS service and AWS Partner Network (APN) Technology Partner integrations […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports single-instance deployments of SQL Server on Windows and Linux
You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to perform single-instance deployments of Microsoft SQL Server on Windows Server and Ubuntu Server. Read More for the details.