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AWS – ElastiCache Serverless is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon ElastiCache Serverless in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. ElastiCache Serverless simplifies cache management and scales to support the most demanding applications. With ElastiCache Serverless, you can create a highly available and scalable cache in less than a minute, eliminating the need to plan for, provision, and manage cache […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift now in additional regions
Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now supported in 11 additional regions, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift. Based on your analytics needs, you can include or exclude specific databases and tables from an existing or a new zero-ETL integration and selectively bring data into Amazon Redshift. […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace now supports demo and private offer requests for products
AWS Marketplace now gives customers the ability to request product demos and private offers directly from sellers’ product listing pages. This helps customers accelerate product evaluations and further reduce their procurement cycle times. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: New Generation Intel VMs – Dv6/Ev6
Azure introduces the latest generation Intel-based VM series in public preview with up to 20% higher CPU performance and 3X remote storage throughput. Read More for the details.

Azure – Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers
We’re thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management’s newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 […]

Azure – Generally Available: AKS cost views
The Kubernetes clusters and Kubernetes namespaces cost views are now generally available in Cost analysis within Azure portal. You can view the aggregated costs for all your AKS clusters and namespaces across a subscription and drill down into infrastructure and namespaces costs of a cluster. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud architects, don’t miss these Google Cloud Next sessions
Google Cloud Next ‘24 is coming to Las Vegas and this year’s offerings are packed with exciting experiences for cloud engineers of every type. In particular, cloud architects have a lot to choose from — Spotlights, Showcases, Breakouts, and the Innovator’s Hive. Hot topics include networks, storage, distributed cloud and of course, AI. You can […]

AWS – Amazon EMR on EC2 now gracefully replaces unhealthy core nodes
We are excited to introduce a new Amazon EMR on EC2 feature that enables automatic graceful replacement of unhealthy core nodes to ensure continued optimal cluster operations and prevent data loss. Additionally, EMR on EC2 will publish CloudWatch events to provide visibility into node health and recovery actions. These improvements are available for all Amazon […]

AWS – Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports private network policies for OpenSearch Serverless
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver more relevant, context-specific, and accurate responses. We are excited to announce that Knowledge Bases now supports private network policies for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless (OSS). Read More for […]
AWS – Private Access to the AWS Management Console is now available in all commercial AWS Regions
Starting today, you can now deploy AWS Management Console Private Access in US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Canada (West), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and South America […]