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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports converting instances to CDB architecture
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports converting existing Oracle Database 19c instances from the non-multitenant to the multitenant database architecture. DB instances using the multitenant architecture consist of a container database (CDB) with a single pluggable database (PDB). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service introduces Advanced channel types for flexible input encoding
You now have the option to create an Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) channel using the new Advanced-HD or Advanced-SD channel types, in addition to the original Basic or Standard channel types. Similar to Standard channels, Advanced channel types provide multiple qualities of output, allowing better playback quality across a range of devices and […]

AWS – Amazon HealthLake capabilities help customers meet interoperability-related ONC and CMS patient access rules
Today, Amazon HealthLake is excited to announce three new capabilities that simplify health data interoperability for customers using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Launching in preview, Amazon HealthLake now supports SMART on FHIR, patient access APIs, and FHIR bulk data access. SMART on FHIR authorizes users and applications to securely access FHIR data, patient access […]

GCP – Configuring an Auth0 SAML Identity Provider (IdP) for Apigee Integrated Developer Portal
In this article, we will be looking at how to configure a SAML Identity Provider (Auth0 in this case) for signing in to Apigee’s Integrated Developer Portal. The conventional way to sign in to an Apigee Integrated Developer Portal is through the built-in Identity Provider option. It requires users to pass their credentials (username and […]

AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service Serverless
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) Serverless, which automatically provisions and scales migration resources to make database migrations easier. With AWS DMS Serverless, you can replicate data across a wide variety of popular database and analytics engines and services, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, […]

Azure – Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming
VGads V620-series virtual machines (VMs), now in public preview in the East US2, Europe west, and West US3 regions, enable service providers to build differentiated cloud gaming experiences. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT FleetWise now supports object storage in Amazon S3
AWS IoT FleetWise, a fully managed service that collects, transforms, and transfers vehicle data to the cloud, now supports object storage using Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3). This feature allows the choice for automotive manufacturers, tier 1 suppliers and fleet operators to store data collected through campaigns in Amazon S3, in addition […]

AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator adds new actions for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS
Today, AWS announces the expanded support of AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), which adds additional FIS ‘actions’ for EKS and ECS. FIS is a fully managed service which allows you to run experiments to test how your applications will behave during an impairment, […]

AWS – AWS Lambda supports Kafka and Amazon MQ event sources in four additional regions
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MSK, self-manged Apache Kafka and Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ as event sources in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (UAE). This gives customers more choices for how they want to send messages to Lambda. Customers can build applications quickly and easily […]
AWS – Amazon ECR adds registry.k8s.io as a supported upstream for pull through cache repositories
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes registry.k8s.io, the new upstream Kubernetes container image registry, as a supported upstream for pull through cache repositories. With today’s release, customers can configure a rule that is designed to automatically sync images from the upstream Kubernetes registry to their private ECR repositories. Read More for the details.