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Azure – General Availability of Azure Logic Apps’ New Data Mapper for Visual Studio Code
Data Mapper is Azure Logic Apps’ new visual data transformation tool. Now, in general availability, as a Visual Studio Code extension, it can create and edit maps between source and target schemas. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Attach and VMs to and from Existing Virtual Machine Scale Sets
You can now easily bring existing VMs to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set with Flexible Orchestration Mode to take advantage of the scaling orchestrations offered by scale sets. You can now detach a VM from the scale set for isolation and troubleshooting. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Private subnet
Private subnet is a new feature that allows you to create subnets that prevent the creation of insecure default outbound public IP address creation Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports SQL Server major version 2022
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2022 CU9 for Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. You can now leverage SQL Server 2022 features such as Query Store Enhancements, Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization, and SQL Server Ledger on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EBS announces Snapshot Lock to protect snapshots from inadvertent or malicious deletions
Today, Amazon EBS announced the availability of Snapshot Lock, a new security feature that helps customers comply with their data retention policies and add another layer of protection against inadvertent or malicious deletions of data. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their EBS volumes for disaster recovery, data migration, and compliance purposes. Customers can […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches updated hours of operation UI with CloudTrail support
Amazon Connect launches a new hours of operation UI with an enhanced user experience, AWS CloudTrail coverage and tagging. Hours of operation let you indicate when your call center is open, and are used when building flows and routing contacts to agents. Now when your operating hours are configured or modified in the Amazon Connect […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake announces new pricing option optimized for flexible retention
Today, AWS CloudTrail Lake announces a one-year extendable retention pricing option that is optimized for flexible data retention needs. CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and analyze activity logs for audit, security, and operational investigations. With the one-year extendable retention pricing, the first year of retention is included […]
AWS – Enhanced co-sell experience for AWS Partners
AWS introduces an enhanced co-sell experience for AWS Partners using APN Customer Engagements (ACE). Read More for the details.
AWS – Extend your Amazon Managed Grafana experience with Grafana community plugins
Amazon Managed Grafana now features a new self-service plugin management experience for Grafana community plugins. With this release, Amazon Managed Grafana administrators can discover and install Grafana community plugins directly from their workspace. Plugins enable you to extend your Grafana experience, unifying data from a wider variety of data sources with visualizations tailored to analyze […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (London) and Europe (Spain) Regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (London) and Europe (Spain) Regions. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.