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AWS – Amazon Forecast adds holiday calendars for 66 countries, to improve forecast accuracy
Amazon Forecast uses machine learning to generate accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience for inventory planning, workforce planning, energy demand forecasting and cloud infrastructure usage forecasting. This technology has been perfected from over 20 years of forecasting development at Amazon.com. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS App Mesh introduces new default mesh configuration
Now you can leverage new default mesh retry policy and connection pool configuration that simplifies building applications resilient to connection errors and improves application scalability. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. App […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs for Snapshots now available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs for Snapshots are available in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Using Amazon EBS direct APIs, customers can create snapshots of their block storage data, regardless of where it resides, including data on-premises. This enables customers to achieve business continuity in AWS at a […]
Azure – Azure Advisor Quick Fix is now available
Remediate Advisor recommendations at scale more quickly and easily using Advisors new Quick Fix feature. Read More for the details.
Azure – Audit Logs of Azure Monitor logs queries now available
The Azure Monitor Logs service allows you to collect telemetry of all types across their entire infrastructure and query this telemetry to collect insights. We are announcing a new capability to collect audit logs about query execution. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Cosmos DB Management with PowerShell cmdlets is in public preview
Now in preview, users can manage Azure Cosmos DB resources using a set of PowerShell cmdlets, available in the Az.CosmosDB Powershell module. The Az.CosmosDB module can be used with Windows PowerShell 5.1 as well as cross-platform PowerShell Core 6 or 7. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Cosmos DB: Azure CLI support for autoscale
Now in general availability, we are announcing Azure CLI support for autoscale in Azure Cosmos DB. Read More for the details.
Azure – No downtime indexing updates in Azure Cosmos DB
You can now confidently make indexing changes without fear of impacting existing reads and writes. Before this change, write performance was unaffected during index updates but query results were not consistent while the index transformation was ongoing. Read More for the details.
Azure – Configurable backup storage redundancy option for Azure SQL Managed Instance
More flexibility and choice for backup storage redundancy with the addition of LRS and ZRS storage options. Read More for the details.
Azure – SQL Server FCI on Shared Disks for SQL Server on virtual machines
Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS is now in general availability. Read More for the details.