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AWS – AWS Config multi-account, multi-region data aggregation and advanced query capabilities now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions
AWS Config now supports multi-account, multi-region data aggregation in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. This feature enables you to aggregate AWS Config configuration and compliance data into a single account and Region, which reduces the time and overhead needed to gather an enterprise-wide view of your compliance status for governance. […]

AWS – AWS AppSync introduces new 12xlarge instance for server-side API caching
AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. With AppSync, you can build scalable applications on a range of data sources such as NoSQL data stores, relational databases, HTTP APIs, and any […]

AWS – AWS AppSync Now Available in EU (Paris and Stockholm), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo) and US (N. California)
Starting today, AWS AppSync is available in five new regions: EU (Paris and Stockholm), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo) and US (N. California). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Comprehend Medical adds relationship extraction to medical condition
Amazon Comprehend Medical, is a HIPAA-eligible machine learning service that allows developers to process unstructured medical text and identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages, symptoms and signs, and more. One of the more powerful features of Amazon Comprehend Medical is the ability to tie these entities together through a process called relationship extraction. […]

GCP – Not just compliance: reimagining DLP for today’s cloud-centric world
As the name suggests, data loss prevention (DLP) technology is designed to help organizations monitor, detect, and ultimately prevent attacks and other events that can result in data exfiltration and loss. The DLP technology ecosystem—covering network DLP, endpoint DLP, and data discovery DLP—has a long history, going back nearly 20 years, and with data losses […]

AWS – Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ Version 5.15.12
You can now launch Apache ActiveMQ 5.15.12 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and improvements compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.15.10. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing EC2 Launch v2 to simplify customizing Windows instances
EC2Launch v2 is a redesigned, unified launch agent for EC2 Windows instances, which simplifies the configuration of Windows instances to meet the needs of your workloads. EC2Launch applies AWS-recommended configurations to your Windows instances, such as local administrator username changes, support for increased user data input length, and agent auto-updates. EC2Launch v2 provides you with […]

AWS – Announcing AWS App2Container – Containerize and Migrate Applications to the AWS Cloud
Today, we are announcing AWS App2Container (A2C), a new command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications. A2C analyzes and builds an inventory of all applications running in virtual machines on-premises or in the cloud. You simply select the application you want to containerize, and A2C packages the application artifact and run-time […]

Azure – Virtual machine scale sets—Automatic image upgrades for custom images now available
Virtual machine scale sets now provide the ability to automatically deploy new versions of custom images to scale set virtual machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Firewall Manager is now generally available
Firewall Manager is a security management service that provides central security policy and route management for cloud-based security perimeters. Read More for the details.