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Azure – Upcoming billing changes to Azure Bandwidth
On a rolling basis throughout September 2020, we’ll move Bandwidth to a source–destination billing model. Additionally, metering will be divided into inter-region meter IDs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Personalize enhances Recommendation Filters with filtering on item metadata
Amazon Personalize uses machine learning technology perfected from over 20 years of recommender systems development at Amazon.com. With Amazon Personalize you are can personalize recommendations for products, videos, music, ebooks, ads, marketing emails, and more, for your users, without any prior machine learning experience. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Data Lake Storage lifecycle management is now generally available
Lifecycle management for Azure Data Lake Storage provides an automated solution for tiering down infrequently used data to cooler tiers, allowing you to easily optimize your data for both performance and cost. Read More for the details.

Azure – New regions added for Azure Blob storage object replication public preview
We have expanded the preview regions for Azure Blob storage object replication to include East US 2, Central US. You can start previewing this feature on any existing or new General-purpose (GPv2) storage accounts in those regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Preview for Amazon RDS M6g and R6g Instance Types, Powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based database instances in preview. Graviton2 M6g and R6g database instances deliver better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based database instances. You can launch these database instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. Support for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for MariaDB […]

AWS – IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is Now Available in Europe (Frankfurt), South America (São Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions
Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet protocol (IP) multicast in Europe (Frankfurt), South America (São Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway expands FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints to all North America Regions
AWS Storage Gateway now offers Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 compliant endpoints in all North America Regions to protect sensitive information for regulated workloads. These endpoints terminate Transport Layer Security (TLS) sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module, making it easier for you to use Storage Gateway for regulated workloads. Companies contracting […]

AWS – Manage access to AWS centrally for OneLogin users with AWS Single Sign-On
Customers can now connect their OneLogin Identity Management Platform (OneLogin) to AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) once, manage access to AWS centrally in AWS SSO, and enable end users to sign in using OneLogin to access all their assigned AWS accounts. The integration helps customers simplify AWS access management across multiple accounts while maintaining familiar OneLogin […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in these regions to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty expands threat detection coverage to help you better protect your data stored in Amazon S3
Amazon GuardDuty broadens threat detection coverage to monitor for highly-suspicious data access and anomaly detection to help you better protect your data residing in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). This new capability adds S3 data events (LISTs/PUTs/GETs) as a new log and event source that GuardDuty continuously profiles to monitor data access behavior, combine […]