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GCP – Improved cost visibility and 60 percent price drop for Managed Service for Prometheus
Prometheus is the de facto standard for Kubernetes application metrics, but running it yourself can strain engineering time and infrastructure resources, especially at production scale. Our Managed Service for Prometheus can help you offload that burden, freeing up your engineers to build your next big application rather than spending time building out metrics infrastructure. And […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Storage Mover support for SMB and Azure Files
Migrate your SMB shares to Azure file shares with Azure Storage Mover. Read More for the details.

GCP – Introducing H3 compute-optimized VMs for high performance computing (HPC)
High performance computing (HPC)helps power discovery and bring products to market fast, across a wide range of applications, including scientific computing, engineering simulation, climate modeling, financial risk analysis, drug discovery, and more. HPC users are increasingly adopting Google Cloud to access the computing resources they need, when they need them, to explore more scenarios and […]

AWS – AWS Service Catalog is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service announces Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now has the capability to deliver live streams with latency that can be under 300 millisecond from host to viewer, to an audience of up to 10,000 viewers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment
Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports excluding outbound calls in deciding agent routing order
Amazon Connect now provides you the ability to configure routing profiles to exclude all outbound call activity from setting the order in which inbound contacts are assigned to agents. Contact center managers can use this configuration to ensure that agents maintain their position in line to receive inbound calls and do not move to the […]

AWS – Amazon MSK Serverless expands availability to three additional AWS Regions
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Paris), and Europe (London) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 12 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 12 new security controls, increasing the overall number of controls Security Hub offers to 276. With these new controls, Security Hub now supports three additional AWS services: Amazon Athena, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and Amazon Neptune. Security Hub has also added an additional control against Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon […]