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AWS – AWS Blu Age runtime is now available packaged for easier Amazon EC2 deployment
AWS Mainframe Modernization with AWS Blu Age Runtime is now available with more flexibility in configuration of the complete stack and deployment on customers’ AWS account EC2 instances. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS increases pod density limits for Windows containers
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows running more pods per windows node using IPv4 prefix delegation mode for Windows containers. Prefix delegation mode expands the number of secondary IPv4 addresses which could be assigned to the Elastic Network Interface (ENI) by up to 16x. With this feature, customers can run up to 250 pods […]

AWS – AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon S3 in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne) and Europe (Spain, Zurich) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) […]

AWS – PostgreSQL 16 Beta 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL 16 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 Beta 2 in the Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, making […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption
Azure Virtual Network encryption allows you to seamlessly encrypt and decrypt traffic between Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL – A deep dive into VACUUM FAQs
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database. Enterprises are increasingly migrating their workloads to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL from other engines for a number of reasons, including price, performance and to escape vendor lock-in. A critical aspect of PostgreSQL is its Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) implementation and the garbage collector which is called VACUUM. While […]

GCP – End-to-end monitoring for web and mobile applications with Sentry
You can identify and fix performance issues quickly by monitoring your applications “end-to-end” using Sentry performance monitoring and Google Cloud. We’ll explore how Sentry can help identify errors and crashes in your application, and how Google Cloud can help you identify performance issues by tracking metrics such as CPU and memory usage. You can also […]

GCP – Access private serverless services from an API platform using Private Service Connect
Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that lets you run containers directly on top of Google’s scalable infrastructure. You can consume Cloud Run applications from Apigee X, with minimal required resources. Apigee X is a platform for developing and managing APIs. By fronting services with a proxy layer, Apigee provides an abstraction or facade […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions.
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Fifth Refresh Release
This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements. Read More for the details.