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Azure – Azure Service Fabric 9.0 Tenth Refresh Release
This release includes bug fixes and quality improvements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports Cross-Account Service Quotas
Amazon CloudWatch now supports Service Quotas in Cross-Account observability allowing customers to track and visualize resource utilization and limits across various AWS services from multiple AWS accounts within a region using a central monitoring account. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing DynamoDB local version 2.0
Today, Amazon DynamoDB local, a local downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB, has migrated to use the jakarta.* namespace. This latest version allows Java developers to use DynamoDB local to work with Spring Boot 3 and frameworks such as Spring Framework 6 and Micronaut Framework 4 to build modernized, simplified, and lightweight cloud native applications. Read […]

GCP – A connector to bring Earth Engine and BigQuery closer together for geospatial analytics
We’re excited to announce a new feature that simplifies exporting tabular data from Earth Engine into BigQuery. Earth Engine and BigQuery share the goal of making large-scale data processing accessible and usable by a wider range of people and applications; Earth Engine tends to focus on image (raster) processing, whereas BigQuery is optimized for processing […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Cards now integrated with model versions in Registry
Today, we are excited to announce the integration of Amazon SageMaker Model Cards and Amazon SageMaker Model Registry, allowing you to associate a SageMaker Model Card with a specific model version in SageMaker Model Registry. This enables you to establish a single source of truth for your registered model versions, with comprehensive, centralized, and standardized […]

AWS – AWS Backup expands cross-account backup AWS Region coverage
Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account backups in AWS Regions Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). Using cross-account backups, customers can copy backups across accounts within their AWS Organizations. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Application Migration Service now supports multi-account migrations
Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to centrally view and manage migrations to multiple accounts via a single designated account. Designed for large organizations, this new feature uses AWS Organizations to provide visibility and inventory management capabilities directly from the AWS Application Migration Service console. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you provision higher IOPS and throughput for gp3 volumes
Amazon OpenSearch Service now lets you provision up to 16,000 IOPS and 1000 MiB/s throughput for every 3 TiB gp3 volume size provisioned per data node, enabling you to achieve better search and indexing performance. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now allows flows to automatically run based on agent activity
Amazon Connect now enables you to automatically present the right step-by-step guide based on agent activity. You can now use the new “Set event flow” block within Amazon Connect flows to run a specific guide when a customer connects with an agent or the agent disconnects from the call. For example, when a customer connects […]
Azure – Public preview: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall logs
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) logs using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.