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GCP – Advancing telehealth with Amwell
Today, healthcare organizations are reimagining how care is delivered. While many organizations were already beginning to embrace telehealth at the start of the year, the global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend virtually overnight—for instance, according to HHS data, Medicare primary care visits delivered virtually grew from less than one percent in February of 2020 […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management
Earlier this year, we launched VPC Prefix List, a feature that allows you to group multiple CIDR blocks into a single object, and use it as a reference to simplify network configuration. Today, we are adding Prefix Lists support to AWS Transit Gateway, making it easier for you to manage Transit Gateway route tables. Read […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Distributor adds third-party agent, Dynatrace ONE
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, allows you to select from available popular third-party agents to install and manage on your instances. With this launch, you can select to install the pre-built Dynatrace ONE Agent directly from Distributor without having to create or maintain any software packages. AWS will continue to seek opportunities to […]
AWS – Provisioned Concurrency for AWS Lambda is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Provisioned Concurrency for AWS Lambda is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Provisioned Concurrency is a feature that provides customers greater control over performance of their serverless applications at any scale. Functions using Provisioned Concurrency execute with consistent start-up latency making them ideal for building interactive mobile or web backends, latency sensitive microservices, and […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MongoDB 4.0 as a source in AWS DMS v 3.4.1. Using DMS, you can now perform live migrations from MongoDB 4.0 clusters to any AWS DMS supported target including Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with minimal downtime. For full list of supported […]
AWS – AWS SDK for .NET v3.5 is now generally available
Today, we are happy to announce the general availability of AWS SDK for .NET v3.5. This release transitions support for all non-Framework versions of the SDK to .NET Standard 2.0+. Unity, Xamarin, and UWP users can now utilize the .NET Standard 2.0 distribution to gain access to the same services and AWS vended libraries as […]
Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series are now available in Canada East
Confidential computing DCsv2-series virtual machines (VMs) are now available in East US, Canada Central, Canada East, UK South, West Europe, and West US 2. Read More for the details.
Azure – AzCopy v10.6 released with updated sync features and larger blob size support
AzCopy v10.6 sync now supports access control lists (ACLs) and properties as well as larger block blob size and blob versioning. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
Amazon EKS now supports containerized applications that require access to EC2 instance metadata using the IMDSv2 format. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability
We’ve introduced the following 5 fields to the instance metadata service: region, placement group name, partition number, host ID, and availability zone-ID. You can use these fields after launch or while your instance is running to understand your instance location. This is useful for populating the region for your AWS environment. Additionally, these fields help […]