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AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations Now Support Windows BYOL
Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now allows you to bring your own licenses (BYOL) of Windows operating systems. With this release, you can now create an EC2 Capacity Reservation and launch EC2 instances, running your existing Windows licenses, into the Capacity Reservation. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Data Explorer LightIngest now supports actual creation time for historical data migration
LightIngest is a command-line utility for large volumes of data ingestion, and for querying records on the time created, rather than the time ingested. Read More for the details.

GCP – Infrastructure for all: What happened at Next OnAir this week
Week three of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir was all about our best-in-class cloud infrastructure, and how to use it to easily run your most demanding applications. From opening remarks from VP of Cloud Infrastructure Brad Calder, Networking GM Shailesh Shukla, and Compute GM June Yang, to deep dives from Google Cloud experts, to breakout […]

GCP – New features and resources that help make the business case to switch to Chrome Enterprise
Whether their businesses are making strategic shifts or supporting a growing remote workforce, IT departments have been the stabilizing force keeping workers productive, secure, and happy in 2020. And many rely on the cloud to help them reduce high-maintenance infrastructure, enable flexible working environments, and maintain the highest level of security for their employees. According […]

Azure – Azure Autoscale generally available in China North 2 and China East 2 regions
Azure Autoscale, which allows you to automatically manage your resources based on the load is now available in China North 2 and China East 2 regions Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports centralized logging of AWS WAF logs
AWS Firewall Manager (FMS) now allows you to configure logging on your AWS WAF web ACLs centrally using an FMS policy. When you set up an FMS policy for AWS WAF, you can now enable logging on web ACLs for all the in-scope accounts and have the logs centralized under a single account. Read More […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports parallel and coordinated executions of a build project
AWS CodeBuild now supports the execution of concurrent and coordinated builds of a project with “Batch” builds. Batch builds support the configuration and ordering of build executions with either a configuration list, configuration matrix, or a dependency-graph of build definitions. They’re intended for customers targeting different platforms or executing builds that depend on each other […]

AWS – Amazon S3 features now available in the AWS Toolkits for Visual Studio Code
Using the AWS Toolkit for VS Code, customers can now access Simple Storage Service (S3) resources and CloudWatch Logs in their account using the AWS Explorer view in the code editor. S3 integration makes it easy for customers to access S3 buckets and S3 objects in those buckets without leaving the VS Code interface. All CRUD […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild supports code coverage reporting
AWS CodeBuild‘s support for Test Reporting now supports reporting for code coverage. Code coverage reports give you a detailed and actionable view of your test’s code coverage in CodeBuild, making it easier for you to identify the proportion and lines of code being tested. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 12.3, 11.8, 10.13, 9.6.18, and 9.5.22 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This release contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. Read More for the details.