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AWS – AWS Firewall Manager launches managed rules to audit VPC security groups
AWS Firewall Manager has introduced new pre-configured rules to help customers audit their VPC security groups and get detailed reports of non-compliance from a central administrator account. This feature makes it easier for customers to centrally audit their security groups using pre-configured rules they can readily enable out of box across their accounts and resources, […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports tagging EC2 Spot Instance requests
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused Amazon EC2 capacity. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and other test & […]

AWS – AWS Direct Connect launches first location in Israel
AWS Direct Connect is now live at MedOne in Haifa, Israel. This is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Israel. Customers in Israel can now locally establish a dedicated network connection from their on-premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or colocation environment, […]

Azure – Create virtual machines from Azure Shared Image Gallery (SIG)
You can now enable specialized images from your shared image gallery (SIG) for lab users to create virtual machines. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces the Migration Acceleration Program for Storage
AWS now offers the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Storage. MAP for Storage provides services, best practices, and tools to help our customers save costs, accelerate their migrations, and modernize their storage workloads on AWS. Read More for the details.

GCP – Last month today: June in Google Cloud
In June, we welcomed summer in the northern hemisphere, and we heard stories of struggle, protest, and perseverance. Our most-read stories reflected these realities, with many people still working and learning remotely. Growing cloud infrastructure, virtually and physically Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters will soon be able to scale past the current limits, up to […]

Azure – Azure Digital Twins enhanced features now in public preview
Create new generation IoT connected solutions that model the real world Read More for the details.

Azure – Simplify and modernize your Java and Spring workloads with Azure Service Bus
Seamlessly lift and shift your Java and Spring workloads to Azure while also modernizing your application stack to take full advantage of the benefits of cloud computing. Azure Service Bus Premium tier now has feature parity with Java Message Service 2.0 over Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (in preview). Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview support for Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance on Azure IaaS is now available
Preview support is now available for Azure Shared Disks for SQL Server failover cluster instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS with SQL Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 and higher. Read More for the details.
Azure – Distributed network name for SQL Server on Virtual Machines is now available
Support for distributed network name (DNN) for SQL Server failover cluster instance (SQL FCI) on Azure IaaS with SQL Server 2019 CU2 and higher is now available. Read More for the details.