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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 […]

GCP – BigQuery’s user-friendly SQL: Elevating analytics, data quality, and security
SQL is used by approximately 7 million people worldwide to manage and analyze data on a daily basis. Whether you are a data engineer or analyst, how you manage and effectively use your data to provide business driven insights, has become more important than ever. BigQuery is an industry leading, fully-managed, cloud data warehouse, that […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Is4gen Instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Is4gen instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built using AWS Nitro SSDs which reduce both latency and latency variability compared to the third generation of EC2 storage optimized […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty introduces cluster configurability in EKS Runtime Monitoring
Amazon GuardDuty announces a new capability in GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring that allows you to selectively configure which Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters are to be monitored for threat detection. Previously, configurability was at the account level only. With this added cluster-level configurability, customers can now selectively monitor EKS clusters for threat detection […]
Azure – General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.