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GCP – The world’s unpredictable, your databases shouldn’t add to it
The ability for your business to tackle the unpredictable has only become more critical for success—whether it’s contending with quick shifts in supply chains, running entirely through online channels, or handling unexpected surges in customer demand. At the core of being able to support this are the databases backing your business and powering applications. And […]

Azure – General Availability: Azure Kubernetes Service node image upgrade
Users can now initiate a targeted upgrade to agent nodes for a given node pool to pull the latest available node updates and patches without requiring a full cluster upgrade Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Ephemeral OS disk support in AKS
AKS now supports ephemeral OS disk for AKS agent nodes in public preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Resource Health support in AKS
You can now easily see when your AKS resources were unavailable due to any problems encountered as well as under any maintenance operation. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: CSI storage driver support in Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Container Storage Interface (CSI), a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage systems to containerized workloads on Kubernetes. This offers more flexibility in exposing storage systems in Kubernetes. Read More for the details.

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 […]