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Azure – Azure Advisor will no longer display aggregated potential yearly savings beginning 30 September 2024
Learn how to continue calculating aggregated potential yearly savings. Read More for the details.

Azure – Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.
Azure Notification Hubs support for GCM/FCM legacy will be retired on 1 July 2024. Read More for the details.

Azure – .Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
.Net Standard user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won’t be possible to use the feature. Please transition to JavaScript user-defined functions for Azure Stream Analytics. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Personalize now offers automatic solution training
Amazon Personalize is excited to announce automatic training for solutions. With automatic training, developers can set a cadence for their Personalize solutions to automatically retrain using the latest data from their dataset group. This process creates a newly trained machine learning (ML) model, also known as a solution version, and maintains the relevance of Amazon Personalize […]

AWS – Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of Amazon SES. Read More for the details.

AWS – IAM Roles Anywhere now supports modifying the mapping of certificate attributes
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere now provides the capability to define a set of mapping rules, allowing you to specify which data is extracted from your X.509 end-entity certificates. The data that is mapped is referred to as attributes and used as session tags in the IAM policy condition in order to […]

AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Apache Livy
Today, we are excited to announce that customers will now be able to use Apache Livy to submit their Apache Spark jobs to Amazon EMR on EKS, in addition to using StartJobRun API, Spark Operator, Spark Submit and Interactive Endpoints. With this launch, customers will be able to use a REST interface to easily submit […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker enables Projects in SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker enables SageMaker Projects in the updated SageMaker Studio experience. Prior to this SageMaker Projects were available only in SageMaker Studio classic. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Outposts Racks
Today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) announces support of AWS Outposts racks. With this launch, you can now set your data replication and recovery destinations to AWS Outposts racks, in addition to using AWS Regions and Availability Zones where AWS DRS is available. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6gd instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in the Europe (Zurich) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure […]