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Azure – Azure Load Testing: Create and manage tests and test runs using Azure CLI
Azure Load Testing now supports managing tests and test runs from Azure CLI Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Load Testing: Run tests for up to 24 hours
Azure Load Testing now enables running tests for durations up to 24 hours. Read More for the details.

Azure – Private Preview – DR for Shared Disks – Azure Site Recovery
Now you can protect, monitor, and recover your WSFC-clusters as a single unit across its DR Lifecycle, while also generating cluster-consistent recovery points – which are consistent across all the disks (including the Shared Disk) of the cluster. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify Introduces CloudWatch Logger feature for Swift and Android
We are excited to announce the launch of a new CloudWatch Logger feature with AWS Amplify, which is available now for Swift and Android developers. This feature empowers developers to log errors from the Amplify libraries to CloudWatch, enhancing the ability to detect production issues. It also enables developers to write custom logs to detect […]

AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager now publishes IP Address utilization metrics for AWS resources
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports three new CloudWatch metrics — VpcIPUsage, SubnetIPUsage, and PublicIPv4PoolIPUsage, that allow you to identify underutilized or near full capacity IP address ranges, optimizing your IP address usage on AWS. These metrics proactively track IP address usage across resources such as Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs), subnets, […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and EC2 M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids). These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds schedule deletion after completion
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now supports the ability to set schedules to automatically delete upon completion of the last invocation. This can be used for one-time, cron, and rate schedules with an end date. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing additional Ephemeral Storage for EKS Fargate
AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now lets customers configure the size of ephemeral storage for their workloads up to a maximum of 175 GiB. This enables customers with data intensive workloads to utilize AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS. AWS Fargate for Amazon EKS removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you […]

AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Herzliya, Israel
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the EdgeConnex Herzliya data center in Herzliya, Israel. By connecting your network to AWS at this location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 19 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 19 more resource types for services, including AWS Amplify, Amazon AppIntegrations, AWS App Mesh, Amazon Athena, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon Forecast, AWS IoT Greengrass Version 2, AWS Ground Station, AWS Elemental MediaConnect, AWS Elemental MediaTailor, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Personalize, […]