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AWS – Now deploy Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint between virtual private gateway and subnets in Amazon VPC
You can now route any IPv4 and IPv6 traffic entering your Amazon VPC from virtual private gateway through a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint before the traffic reaches the destination. You can use Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint to process your VPC traffic through AWS Network Firewall or other security appliances available on AWS Market Place. Read […]

AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches new capabilities for increased configurability
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces two new capabilities: the general availability of configurable analysis results setting and the preview of Apache Iceberg support. These launches give customers more flexibility to configure AWS Clean Rooms collaborations with their preferred result recipient and data format. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
Today, AWS is renaming Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. With Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, you can transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink, an open-source framework and engine for processing data streams. The name change is effective in the AWS Management Console, documentation, […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports time zone auto-upgrade for Single-tenant instances
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle supports the auto-upgrade of Oracle time zone files for DB instances on the multitenant container database (CDB) architecture running in single-tenant configuration. The Oracle time zone file auto-upgrade feature provides an automated way to upgrade the daylight savings time (DST) time zone file version in […]

AWS – Service Quotas adds support to increase the instances per domain quota for Amazon OpenSearch Service
Service Quotas now supports requesting a quota increase on number of instances for a specific Amazon OpenSearch Service domain in your AWS account. With this launch, you can also view applied quota values for each domain in your AWS account. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing refactor environment automation for Application Migration Service
Today, AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces launched an SSM automation document for use as an AWS Application Migration Service post launch action. Refactor Spaces provides the AWS infrastructure for incrementally refactoring to microservices that reduces risk when evolving applications, accelerates team agility, and ensures deployment independence. Refactor Spaces’ SSM document automates the creation of a […]

Azure – Generally Available: Auto-upgrade scheduled maintenance for AKS
You can now have dedicated maintenance for weekly AKS releases, auto upgrades and Node OS patching. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally Available: ASP.NET Core integration in Azure Functions
Azure Functions now supports using ASP.NET types such as HttpRequest, HttpResponse, and IActionResult from .NET isolated function projects. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Container Apps dedicated plan
You can now run your apps on dedicated workload profiles that offer more CPU and memory if needed. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Functions .NET worker cold start improvements
Major cold start improvements are available to .NET apps on the Azure Functions isolated worker model through a preview configuration. Read More for the details.