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GCP – High-resolution user-defined metrics in Cloud Monitoring
Higher resolution metrics are critical for monitoring dynamically changing environments and rapidly changing application metrics. Examples where high resolution metrics are critical include high volume e-commerce, live streaming, autoscaling bursty workloads on Kubernetes clusters, and more. Higher resolutioncustom, Prometheus, and agent metrics are now generally available, and can be written at a granularity of 10 […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs features now available in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
With CloudWatch Logs integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code, developers working in VS Code can now interact with CloudWatch log groups in an AWS Region that are available to the active credentials profile. After listing and filtering the CloudWatch log streams for a selected log group, they can view a stream’s most recent […]
AWS – AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports Resources in CloudFormation Registry with Open Implementation
AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management (CM), a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef Automate and Puppet Enterprise, now has updated their AWS CloudFormation support for OpsWorks resources, including supporting all AWS CLI and SDK operations, as well as opening up the implementation to allow for community feedback and contributions. Read More for […]
Azure – Support to assess physical, AWS, GCP servers now generally available
The assessments offer Azure suitability analysis, migration cost planning and performance-based rightsizing. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes Version 1.1.1 now available with support for new mesh configuration controls
The AWS App Mesh controller for Kubernetes provides a way to configure and manage AWS App Mesh directly using Kubernetes. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and ensuring high-availability for your applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Price change notice for customers using Amazon Pinpoint to send SMS messages to India
Starting September 21, 2020, the price of sending SMS messages to India will be updated from $0.00223 to $0.00303 per message. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions
AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to AWS GovCloud (US-East), EU (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong). StackSets allows you to centrally manage deployments of resources to multiple accounts and regions in a single operation enabling you to easily deploy a baseline level of functionality to your accounts before they are actively used. […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail now provides relevant user statistics to act on anomalies detected by CloudTrail Insights
CloudTrail Insights now helps you correlate user identities, user agents, and error codes associated with unusual levels of API activity. Now, you can identify the IAM users and roles with the highest levels of API activity during both periods of anomalous activity, and normal activity. This capability helps you analyze and act on anomalies without […]
AWS – New digital training course for Amazon Managed Blockchain
We are pleased to announce the first blockchain course from AWS Training and Certification. This new course, Introduction to Blockchain, is a free, on-demand, 60-minute digital course for both technical and non-technical learners. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of new Provisioned IOPS Volume (io2) for Amazon EBS
New Elastic Block Store (EBS) Provisioned IOPS volume, io2, features higher durability of 99.999%, and supports provisioning 500 IOPS for every provisioned GB. This means that with io2, customers get 100x better volume durability and a 10x higher IOPS to storage ratio – all at the same price as io1. io2 is ideal for performance […]