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AWS – Amazon Augmented AI Launches Delete Human Task UI Capability
Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of machine learning predictions such as predictions from Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Textract, Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, or Amazon SageMaker. You now have the capability to delete HumanTaskUI using Amazon A2I. A HumanTaskUI resource defines the HTML template used to render […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority now supports Private CA sharing
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now supports sharing a Private CA with any AWS account or within your organization. Customers manage a Private CA in a central account and use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) to share the CA with other accounts or organizations where SSL/TLS certificates will be issued. This eliminates […]

Azure – Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer now generally available
Share big data in-place easily, securely, and at no additional cost. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing swift combine support in Amplify iOS
Today, we are announcing the release of Amplify iOS 1.1. This new release adds built-in support for Combine, a framework by Apple which makes it much easier for Swift developers to make asynchronous API calls. Amplify iOS is part of the open source Amplify Framework and makes it easy for developers to build iOS apps […]

AWS – Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate now supports Amazon EFS file systems
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on AWS Fargate can now mount Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) file systems. AWS Fargate will use the EFS CSI driver to automatically mount an EFS file system requested by a pod running on Fargate, without the need for manual driver installation. This enables persistent, regional, shared storage […]

AWS – Amazon EKS support for Arm-based instances powered by AWS Graviton is now generally available
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now run production workloads using Arm-based instances including the recently launched Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS managed node groups now support EC2 launch templates and custom AMIs
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports using launch templates to customize EC2 instance settings for nodes managed by EKS. When combined, managed node groups with launch templates make it simple to add and update nodes in your cluster, while adhering to any level of specialized security or compliance requirements. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure DevOps Artifacts storage exploration
More granular breakdowns and analyses into artifact storage. Read More for the details.

AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for CloudFormation Templates
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports enabling monitoring for resources provisioned via CloudFormation templates. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers easily setup monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. Now this same easy setup can be done via simple JSON or YAML commands added to your CloudFormation template that automatically add CloudWatch […]
AWS – Application and Classic Load Balancers are adding defense in depth with the introduction of Desync Mitigation Mode
Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Classic Load Balancer (CLB) now support HTTP Desync Mitigation Mode, a new feature that protects your application from issues due to HTTP Desync. Modern day web applications are typically built with a chain of proxies that ensure fast and reliable communication between clients and servers. While these proxies follow a […]