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AWS – AWS Elemental Link and MediaLive add KLV metadata support
You can now use AWS Elemental Link and AWS Elemental MediaLive to ingest and deliver KLV metadata from a MediaLive channel. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now supports additional Linux operating system versions
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.7, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, Rocky Linux 8.6, 8.7, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, and Oracle Linux 8.6, 8.7, 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2. Patch Manager enables you to automatically patch instances with both security-related and other types of updates across your […]

Azure – Azure App Configuration – public preview release of snapshots feature
Key-value pairs from App Config store ensure controlled deployments. Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview: Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall
Export Cost Management data to secure storage accounts with firewall Read More for the details.

GCP – Celebrating the winners of the 2023 Google Cloud Customer Awards
It’s that time once again, where we announce the winners of our Google Cloud Customer Awards. These awards celebrate organizations around the world that are turning inspiring ideas into exciting realities. Whether it’s social enterprise experts like Singapore’s FairPrice Group, transformational talent backers like Ford Motor Company, environmental leaders like SAP, or diversity, equity, and […]

GCP – Google Cloud Innovators and Community join forces to boost your success
Google Cloud is dedicated to providing developers and technical practitioners with the resources you need to shape the future of technology for all experience levels. One way we are doing this is by creating a more comprehensive developer experience amongst our community programs. Together, the Google Cloud Innovators program and the Google Cloud Community are […]

Azure – Retirement: Kubernetes 1.24 support in AKS
Migrate to Kubernetes 1.25 or higher in AKS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Logic Apps (Standard): Upgrade to Node 18 LTS by 11 September 2023
Support for Node 16 LTS is ending on 11 September 2023. Any application hosted on Azure Logic Apps that relies on this version will not be supported and must be upgraded to Node 18 LTS by 11 September 2023. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect launches granular access controls for the agent activity audit report
Amazon Connect now provides the ability for contact center administrators to apply granular permissions to the agent activity audit report in the Amazon Connect UI using resource tagging and tag-based access controls. This new capability enables customers to define who is able to see the historical agent statuses (e.g. “Available”) for specific agents. For example, […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds scheduled and programmatic export to Excel format
Amazon QuickSight now supports scheduled generation of Excel workbooks by selecting multiple tables and pivot table visuals from any sheet of a dashboard. Snapshot Export APIs will now also support programmatic export to Excel format, in addition to Paginated PDF and CSV. Read More for the details.