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AWS – AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways
Now you can configure ingress for your applications running within App Mesh with virtual gateways that allow services outside of your mesh to communicate with services inside the mesh. 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 […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Cloud Foundation
Cloud Foundation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, delivered via a consulting engagement from Itoc, an AWS DevOps, Financial Services, SaaS and Security Competency Partner. Cloud Foundation delivers a best practice, secure, and flexible foundation AWS environment for customers that don’t have the depth of skills yet or the capacity internally to build their own. […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.17. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase
AWS DeepRacer is a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car powered by reinforcement learning that gives machine learning developers of all skill levels the opportunity to learn and build their ML skills in a fun and competitive way. AWS DeepRacer Evo includes new features and capabilities that help developers to learn more about ML through […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon Virtual Andon 2.0: Andon system for manufacturers
The Amazon Virtual Andon solution provides a scalable Andon system to help optimize factory floor processes, reduce issue resolution time, support the transition to predictive maintenance, and prevent issues. The solution provides a workflow to help users monitor manufacturing workstations for an event, log the event, and then route the event to the correct engineer for […]

GCP – Kicking off Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir, a multi-week, digital event series: July 14 – Sept 8
Starting this week, I am excited to welcome you to Google Cloud Next ‘20 OnAir, our reimagined, 9 week digital event series bringing together our global community of Googlers, customers, partners, analysts, press and more. As I’ve shared, our team has been hard at work to evolve our flagship event into an immersive and impactful […]

Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 47—July 2020
The latest Azure Site Recovery updates provides fixes and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon QuickSight’s SPICE data engine now supports data sets up to 250M rows
Amazon QuickSight’s SPICE engine now supports data sets up to 250M rows and 500GB. Customers love using SPICE to accelerate their dashboards, and this increase—from 100M rows and 200GB—is the most frequent request we get. Today we’re happy to announce support for larger data sets, letting you accelerate dashboards with more data. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Spatial for Oracle Standard Edition 2
Starting today you can enable the SPATIAL option for your Amazon RDS instances for Oracle running Standard Edition 2 (SE2). Read More for the details.
AWS – Track file changes on Systems Manager managed instances with AWS Config
AWS Systems Manager now integrates with AWS Config to track configuration changes to inventory files on managed instances collected by AWS Systems Manager Inventory. A managed instance is a virtual machine that is configured for use with AWS Systems Manager. You can now track changes to file type inventory data from managed instances with the […]