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Azure – Azure Container Registry now available in UAE Central region
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in the UAE Central region, bringing the total number of Azure regions that it’s available in to 36. See the list of all regions where Azure Container Registry is available and where it’s coming next. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the General Availability of Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based Operating System (OS) purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket includes only the software needed to run containers and comes with a transactional update mechanism. These properties enable customers to use container orchestrators to manage OS updates with minimal disruptions, enabling improved […]

Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)
Get started today with Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview in US Government regions. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 enables AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor
Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add, edit, or delete AWS tags from your image builders, fleets, and stacks along with your other AWS resources. AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces enables AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor
Amazon WorkSpaces adds support for AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add, edit, or delete AWS tags from your WorkSpaces along with your other AWS resources. AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate the tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator
Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Onica, a Rackspace Technology Company and an AWS IoT and AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. The Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator solves common problems in implementation around data ingestion, storage, and monitoring of IoT devices. With this accelerator, customers can […]

AWS – Orchestrate and parameterize EMR Notebook Executions without graphical user interface access
EMR Notebooks is a service that provides a fully managed, Jupyter-based notebook to data scientists and engineers who write ad-hoc jobs and experiment with them. Now you can orchestrate EMR Notebooks in a non-interactive manner to run ETL workloads especially in production. Before this feature, executing notebooks required the Jupyter User Interface access through the […]

AWS – Amazon Corretto 15 Release Candidate (RC)
Amazon now supports the latest Java Feature Release JDK 15 by introducing Amazon Corretto 15 RC (Release Candidate). Corretto 15 is available on Linux, Windows and macOS. Download Corretto 15 RC directly here. Read More for the details.

GCP – mixi accelerates AI adoption with help from Google Cloud Advanced Solutions Lab
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been helping businesses become more efficient for years now, and their applications are growing seemingly by the day. Given this fast evolution, it’s understandable that many organizations aren’t quite sure how to best use AI and ML to help their business. This was the case at mixi, […]
Azure – Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers
The zone related behavior in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed. Read More for the details.