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AWS – Amazon ECR adds pull through cache support for GitLab.com
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes GitLab Container Registry as a supported upstream registry for ECR’s pull through cache feature. With today’s release, customers using GitLab’s software-as-a-subscription offering, GitLab.com, can automatically sync images from the newly supported upstream registry to their private ECR repositories. ECR customers can create a pull through cache rule that […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches SPICE capacity auto-purchase API
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of SPICE capacity auto-purchase API. Previously, customers were required to manually turn on SPICE auto-purchase via the console UI. Now with this API enhancement, QuickSight users can programmatically turn on the SPICE capacity auto-purchase, seamlessly integrating it into their adoption and migration pipeline. Once turned on, users […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, now in new regions
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: NFS Azure Files volume mount support in Azure Container Apps
You can now mount NFS file shares in Azure Container Apps. Read More for the details.
Azure – GA: Support for disabling Windows outboundNAT in AKS
You can now manually disable Windows outboundNAT when creating new Windows node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Initialization taints in AKS
You can now use node initialization taints in AKS e.g. in scenarios where you may need extra time to setup your nodes. Read More for the details.
Azure – New version of AKS extension in Visual Studio Code now available
You can now take advantage of new enhancements available in version 1.4.3 Read More for the details.
AWS – New Generative Engine with three synthetic English Polly voices
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the highly expressive generative engine with the three English Amazon Polly voices: two American English voices, Ruth and Matthew, and one British English voice Amy. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches granular access controls (using resource tags) for flows and flow modules
Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls using resource tags to define who can access specific flows and flow modules from the Connect admin website. For example, you can now tag flows with Department:Support from the flow designer UI, restricting access to only administrators from your support line of business. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub expands application resilience drift detection capabilities
AWS Resilience Hub has expanded its drift detection capabilities by introducing a new type of drift detection — application resource drift. Following last year’s release of application resilience drift detection, this new enhancement detects changes, such as the addition or deletion of resources within the application’s input sources. Read More for the details.