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AWS – AWS Cloud Map introduces new API for retrieving service revision
AWS Cloud Map introduces a new API for retrieving the revision of your services. It allows your applications to update the state of your cloud resources only when it has changed, minimizing the discovery traffic and API cost. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for Node.js and Python
Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue Interactive Sessions releases new kernel and support IAM Conditionals
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now supports 4 new notebook kernel magics: assume_role, tags, session_type and matplot. These magics are available in Glue Interactive Sessions kernel 1.0 or later. Additionally, Glue Interactive Sessions now supports IAM Conditionals. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports M6i, R6i, and R5b instances in new regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i, R6i, and R5b instances in additional regions. M6i instances for RDS for Oracle will now be available in 9 new regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). R6i instances for RDS for Oracle […]

AWS – AWS Glue Data Quality can now identify records that failed the CustomSQL rule type
AWS Glue Data Quality can now identify records that have the CustomSQL rule type, enabling customers to isolate problematic records from the good records to allow only high-quality data flows into their data lakes and warehouses. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds new Metric Math for RDS Performance Insights
Amazon CloudWatch announces support of a new Metric Math function called DB_PERF_INSIGHTS() to create CloudWatch alarms and dashboards on Amazon RDS Performance Insights metrics. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing 200 GB free Standard Tier internet data transfer per month
Seamless, scalable and secure internet connectivity between applications and users is top of mind for all businesses as they adopt cloud. Starting October 1st, 2023, all new and existing customers of Google Cloud Networking Standard Tier will be eligible for 200 GB of free internet data transfer every month. This offer is available independently in […]

GCP – Submerge into a Google Workspace Immersion with the Navy
As the CIO for the U.S. Navy Ship Repair Facility (SRF) in Japan, Peter Guo leads a culturally diverse team that’s charged with supporting the success of global fleet operations. His multi-generational, multi-lingual team has a mix of different motivations for joining SRF. During the Google Workspace Summit earlier this year, Guo shared some of […]

GCP – Cloud Load Balancing enhancements improve security and distributed application support
At Google Cloud Next ‘23, the Cloud Networking Load Balancing team announced multiple enhancements that unlock new use cases and increase your value when using Google Cloud Load Balancing. The four of the marquee features we introduced are: mTLS support adds client-side authentication during TLS negotiation on global external Application Load Balancers. This capability allows […]
Azure – General Availability: GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Learn how to enable GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency scanning in Azure DevOps and connect to Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Read More for the details.