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AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink support for Amazon Textract
Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access Amazon Textract from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents and goes beyond […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports all current versions of Ubuntu
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to deploy patches automatically to instances running any current versions of Ubuntu. Until now, Patch Manager supported current versions of Ubuntu up to 18.04. With this release, Patch Manager now supports Ubuntu’s latest version – Ubuntu 20.04. Read More for the details.
Azure – Start using Power BI Embedded to access, share and distribute content easily
We’re retiring Power BI Workspace Collection on 31 August 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – Update your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDKs by 31 August 2022
We’ll be retiring version 1.x of the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK and the .NET Core SDK. Read More for the details.
Azure – New Azure VMs for general purpose and memory intensive workloads now available
The new D v4 and E v4 series Azure Virtual Machines feature the Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL custom processor, can achieve up to 3.4Ghz all core turbo frequency, and offer up to 504 GiB of RAM. Read More for the details.
Azure – View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023
Start using Azure Monitor Workbooks for rich visual reports Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Dedicated Hosts now support new Azure Virtual Machines series
You can now run Dsv4, Ddsv4, Esv4, and Edsv4 Azure VMs on Dedicated Hosts. The new Dedicated Hosts SKUs are based on the Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake) processor, which offers improved performance compared to the previous generation. Read More for the details.
Azure – Visualize and Manage your AWS costs in Azure Cost Management
Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management is now Generally Available. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS Data Streaming Data Solution for Amazon Kinesis
The AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon Kinesis is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. This solution helps you solve for several real-time streaming use cases like capturing high volume application logs, analyzing clickstream data, continuously delivering to […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway increases performance by 4x for File Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for reading data from Amazon S3 for File Gateway, providing you 4x faster access to data managed through the gateway. Read More for the details.