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Azure – New Azure Event Grid capabilities support IoT solutions, event sources
Additional support for Azure Event Hubs means customers can run existing Kafka workloads Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Static Web Apps offers new Dedicated plan in preview
Enterprise-grade features for advanced use cases Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing an improved private offer experience for AWS Marketplace sellers
AWS Marketplace has upgraded the private offer creation experience for sellers, making it easier for you to extend custom pricing and terms to your customers. The new experience provides step-by-step guidance through the offer creation process, and allows you to save unfinished progress as a draft offer. With this launch, you will also be able […]

AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions improves support for Cognito tokens
Amazon Verified Permissions now enables customers using Cognito tokens for authorization, to write Cedar policies based on Cognito group memberships. The service has also added an additional API that enables developers to submit multiple token-based authorization requests, in a single API call. Verified Permissions provides fine-grained authorization for the applications that you build, allowing you […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Db2 introduces hourly licensing from IBM through AWS Marketplace
Amazon RDS for Db2 customers can now subscribe to hourly Db2 licensing from IBM through AWS Marketplace. Customers can now choose to either use an existing license via Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL), or obtain a new license instantly through AWS Marketplace. Customers with seasonal or unpredictable workloads can use the hourly license to avoid the cost of […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service releases cross cluster alerting monitors
Amazon OpenSearch Service’s alerting plugin now supports cross-cluster monitoring, allowing you to create monitors that can query data across multiple OpenSearch clusters from a centralized location. Built on top of cross-cluster search, this feature eliminates the need to recreate redundant alerting monitors on each cluster in your environment. With cross-cluster monitoring, you define which remote […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Cache for Redis now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication and authorization
Azure Cache for Redis now offers a password-free authentication mechanism by integrating with Microsoft Entra. This integration is complemented with the role-based access control that open source Redis supports. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise now offers a 1GB E1 SKU
Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise will offer yet another smaller 1GB SKU for your vector search and semantic caching needs levering the powerful capabilities of RediSearch module. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Cache for Redis triggers and bindings for Azure Functions
Trigger serverless functions through Azure Cache for Redis. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL integrations in LangChain and Semantic Kernel
Implement your RAG pipelines with Azure Cosmos DB and LangChain and Semantic Kernel! Read More for the details.