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AWS – AWS Data Exchange now supports private offer auto-renewals
Data subscribers that acquire data products on AWS Data Exchange using Private Offers can now configure those subscriptions to automatically renew, enabling seamless continuity of their data subscriptions without interruptions in their data feeds. Data providers that want to give their customers the option to auto-renew their subscription on the AWS Data Exchange platform can […]

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 4.0 and transactions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Profiler simplifies profiling for AWS Lambda functions
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler helps developers improve application performance and reduce costs by pinpointing an application’s most expensive line of code, and providing recommendations on how to improve code to save money. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS App Mesh introduces circuit breaker capabilities
Now you can control connection pool configuration in your mesh and leverage outlier detection functionality that simplifies implementing circuit breaker capabilities and helps to build applications resilient to connection errors. 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 […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Replication adds support for metrics and notifications
Amazon S3 Replication now provides detailed metrics and notifications to monitor the status of object replication between buckets. You can monitor replication progress by tracking bytes pending, operations pending, and replication latency between your source and destination buckets using the S3 management console or Amazon CloudWatch. You can also set up S3 Event Notifications to […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports storage quotas
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, now supports storage quotas. With storage quotas, you can monitor and control user- and group-level storage consumption on your file systems to ensure that no user or group consumes excessive amounts of capacity. Storage quotas are ideal for storage administrators who manage multi-user file […]

Azure – Premium tier for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
Premium tier is ideal for big data analytics applications and workloads that require low and consistent latency (fast access) or have a high number of transactions. Read More for the details.

AWS – You can now adjust the network bandwidth used by a running AWS DataSync task
AWS DataSync now enables you to have more granular control over the portion of network bandwidth used to transfer your data. In addition to the existing capability allowing you to set a maximum network bandwidth limit per task, you can now increase or decrease this limit while the task is running. This enables you to minimize […]

AWS – AWS Snowball Edge now supports importing virtual machine images to your deployed Snow devices
AWS Snowball Edge now supports the ability to import virtual machine (VM) images as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) into your Snowball Edge device after it has been deployed to your edge location, reducing the time it takes to add or update AMIs at the edge from days to minutes. This feature is available for the […]
AWS – AWS Snowball Edge now supports Windows operating systems
AWS Snowball Edge now supports Windows operating systems, including Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019. Previously, you were able to run instances on Snowball devices using either the Ubuntu or CentOS Linux operating systems. Now, with support for Windows, you can run your Windows-based workloads at the edge on Snowball […]