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AWS – Announcing New CloudWatch Metrics for Capacity Monitoring on AWS Outposts
Today we are announcing the availability of two new CloudWatch metrics for capacity monitoring on AWS Outposts. The new metrics are UsedInstanceType_Count and AvailableInstanceType_Count. These new metrics provide insight into the number of instance types that are currently in use and available on Outposts. These metrics are available along with the other CloudWatch capacity monitoring […]
AWS – AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas
AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), increases the default service quotas (also commonly known as limits) for On-Demand and Spot resource counts. You can now launch up to 500 concurrent ECS tasks and EKS pods running on Fargate […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 releases self-guided workshop to deploy the End User Computing dashboard
Amazon AppStream 2.0 released a self-guided workshop that enables customers to use AWS services to build and deploy the End User Computing dashboard. You can provide the dashboard to your help desk staff so that they can view details for your AppStream 2.0 fleets, monitor autoscaling activities, and manage user streaming sessions without having to […]
GCP – Are you an Elite DevOps performer? Find out with the Four Keys Project
Through six years of research, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team has identified four key metrics that indicate the performance of a software development team: Deployment Frequency – How often an organization successfully releases to production Lead Time for Changes – The amount of time it takes a commit to get into production Change […]
Azure – General availability: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database in additional regions
The zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL Database is now generally available in these additional regions: Canada Central, West US 2, and North Europe. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation now supports StackSets Resource Type in the CloudFormation Registry
AWS CloudFormation has expanded the CloudFormation Registry to include the StackSets resource type. StackSets is a CloudFormation feature that allows you to centrally manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and regions in a single operation. You can now model, provision, and manage your stack sets resources alongside other AWS resources through CloudFormation […]
AWS – Announcing event logging and self-upgrade capabilities in SSM Agent, with new version 3.0
AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) version 3.0 logs agent start and update events, and you can make these events trigger actions via alarms in Amazon CloudWatch. Additionally, in SSM Agent version 3.0, you can elect to have SSM Agent self-upgrade when the previously installed version of the agent is deprecated. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 2.5.4 / 2.6.1 / 3.2.4 / 3.3.1 now generally available
Newer patches 2.5.4 / 2.6.1 / 3.2.4 / 3.3.1 are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For detailed release notes visit our version documentation. You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation. […]
Azure – Azure Private Link Services available in China
Azure Private Link now includes multiple new services available in all China Regions Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MSK now supports SASL/SCRAM authentication with usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) can now authenticate Apache Kafka clients using usernames and passwords for new clusters, secured by AWS Secrets Manager. Username and password authentication uses SASL/SCRAM (Simple Authentication and Security Layer/Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism), a popular authentication mechanism supported by Apache Kafka. By storing credentials in AWS Secrets […]