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AWS – AWS CodeDeploy now supports multiple load balancers for Amazon EC2 applications
AWS CodeDeploy now supports deploying to applications that use multiple AWS Elastic Load Balancers (ELB). Before, CodeDeploy could only support one application per Classic Load Balancers (CLB), Application Load Balancers (ALB) or Network Load Balancer (NLB). CodeDeploy now supports up to 10 load balancer target groups per application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Read […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.9
You can now run OpenSearch version 2.9 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.9, we have made several improvements to Search, Observability, Security analytics, and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities in OpenSearch Service. Read More for the details.

AWS – Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer now support registering instances addressed by IPv6 as targets
Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) now support registering instances as targets when addressed by Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) to simplify load balancer configuration. This launch enables you to directly register instances using IPv6 addresses as targets, removing the need to track individual IP addresses. The feature also enables the use […]

AWS – AWS Verified Access now supports customer managed KMS keys
AWS Verified Access, a service that helps you provide secure VPN-less access to your corporate applications, now supports customer managed KMS keys (CMKs) for encryption of data at rest, making it easier to meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service version 2.9 expands geospatial aggregations support
We are excited to announce that the Amazon OpenSearch Service has expanded its geospatial capacities. With new aggregation support in version 2.9, you can do more statistical analysis on your data, making it simpler to draw conclusions and interpret them. Read More for the details.

GCP – The Making of Duet AI – your AI-powered collaborator in Google Cloud
At our Google Cloud Next event this past August, we announced the preview of Duet AI in Google Cloud, which embeds the power of generative AI to provide assistance to Google Cloud users of all types to help them get more done, faster. Since the announcement, we received a huge amount of interest from users […]

GCP – Get to ‘migrate now’ with optimized migration waves from CAST Highlight
Cloud migration offers many benefits, including enhanced scalability, cost-efficiency, improved security, flexibility, and speed. However, to realize the full potential of Google Cloud, one needs a pragmatic approach that allows applications to become cloud-friendly during their migration and throughout their lifecycle on Google Cloud. Therefore, it is important to build application and workload migration waves […]

GCP – Adding pricing and accessibility granularity for Apigee API Management
Today’s application and integration landscape has ushered in an unprecedented proliferation of APIs. Already, more than 90% of developers use APIs with everything from small-scale apps to mission-critical operations. As a result, organizations often find themselves juggling multiple API gateways, leading to operational, security, and maintenance overhead. So it’s no surprise that a one-size-fits-all approach […]

Azure – Action required: Retirement of “Get Alert Smart groups” in Azure Monitor
The GetSmartGroups API will be retired on 30 September 2026 Read More for the details.
Azure – Action required: Migrate to using ARG query for “Get Alert Summary” in Azure Monitor
The GetAlertSummary API will be retired on 30-Sep-2026. Read More for the details.