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Azure – Azure portal now offers in context observability for AKS object overviews
View your key performance metrics for your AKS resources in context with the Azure Portal Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Braket adds new quantum processor from IQM in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now supports Garnet, a new high-fidelity 20-qubit superconducting quantum processing unit (QPU) from IQM, expanding Braket to the European Union for the first time. Researchers and developers in Europe, the Middle-East, and Asia Pacific can now conveniently explore this high-fidelity device during their work hours and accelerate […]

AWS – AWS Entity Resolution expands support for customer compliance with ISO and SOC
AWS Entity Resolution has added certification for System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports. Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintains certifications through audits of its controls to help appropriately manage information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information. AWS Entity Resolution helps companies easily match, link, and enhance related records […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches public API for SPICE CMK Data Encryption
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of public API support for Customer Managed Keys (CMK) to encrypt and manage SPICE datasets. Previously, customers were required to manually configure CMK data encryption keys via the QuickSight console UI. Now with this API enhancement, QuickSight users can programmatically opt in and configure the customer managed […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now supports improved filtering capabilities for event matching
Amazon EventBridge event matching on Event Bus now supports an array of values when combining anything-but filtering (matching anything except for the value) with prefix filtering (matching against characters at the beginning of a value), suffix filtering (matching against characters at the end of a value), and wildcard filtering (matching against patterns in string values). […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Extended Support APIs are now available
Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) announce the availability of Extended Support APIs for automated database management. You can use these APIs to create new databases or restore existing snapshots, and specify whether or not they will be in Extended Support. You can also use these APIs to view the Extended Support status […]

AWS – AWS Lambda console now supports sharing test events between developers in additional regions
Developers can now share test events with other developers in their AWS account in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE). Test events provide developers the ability to define a sample event in the Lambda console, and then invoke a Lambda […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 6 additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Zurich), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. […]

AWS – Amazon Security Lake now supports logs from AWS WAF
Today, AWS announces the expansion in the log coverage support for Amazon Security Lake, now including AWS Web Application Firewall Logs (AWS WAF). This enhancement allows you to automatically centralize and normalize your AWS WAF web ACL logs in Security Lake. You can easily analyze your log data to determine if a suspicious IP address […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 now available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3, a new efficient way for customers to query operational logs in Amazon S3 data lakes eliminating the need to switch between tools to analyze data. Customers can quickly get started by installing out-of-the-box dashboards for AWS log types such as […]