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AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now available in Europe (Zurich) Region
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in Europe (Zurich) Region. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs. Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview: Cross Region Restore (CRR) for Recovery Services Agent (MARS) using Azure Backup
Cross Region Restore for Recovery Services Agent for Azure Backup customers is now supported and is available for preview in all Azure public regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup
We are adding the “Selective Disk Backup and Restore” capability in Enhanced Policy of Azure VM Backup. Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview: Save Azure Backup Recovery Services Agent (MARS) passphrase to Azure Key Vault
Azure Backup customers using the Recovery Services Agent (MARS) can now save your encryption passphrase directly to Azure Key Vault. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in UK West
Now available in UK West region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Supply Chain adds new override retention capability
Starting today, manual forecast overrides (i.e. adjustments) made by a demand planner are automatically saved and reapplied from one planning cycle to the next. Demand planners commonly adjust system-generated baseline forecasts for known demand variations. These adjustments, or forecast overrides, reflect seasonality fluctuations, promotions, or other variable that affects the forecast. These adjustments were always […]

AWS – AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning extends availability into Sydney region
AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning, one of AWS Supply Chain’s purpose-built supply chain management applications, is now generally available in Australia (Sydney). With this release AWS Supply Chain Demand Planning is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Australia (Sydney). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Control Tower is now available in Hyderabad, Spain, UAE, and Zurich Regions
Today, AWS Control Tower is available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain and Zurich), and the Middle East (UAE). With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 27 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It […]

AWS – AWS Glue Streaming now supports Kinesis Data Streams enhanced fan-out feature
AWS Glue Streaming ETL now supports the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) enhanced fan-out feature for Kinesis event sources. Enhanced fan-out allows developers to scale up the number of stream consumers (applications reading data from a stream in real-time) by offering each stream consumer its own read throughput. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches pixel based font size and text highlighting for textbox visual
Amazon QuickSight introduces pixel-based font sizing for Textbox, a departure from the fixed font sizes ranging from small to X-large. This enhancement empowers authors with unmatched precision, allowing them to finely adjust font sizes based on numeric or pixel values (“14px” or “32px”), granting greater flexibility. Along with this we are also adding text highlighting […]