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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.

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports HypoPG for creating hypothetical indexes
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the HypoPG extension for creating hypothetical indexes, which lets you test the performance impact of an index on query plans before you build it. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing for FIFO topics
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a messaging service that provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications, now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing with Amazon SNS FIFO topics. You can now view traces that flow through Amazon SNS FIFO topics to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, […]

Azure – Generally available: 8TB memory Mv2 Virtual Machine
Mv2 8TB Memory virtual machine is generally available now for your in-memory workloads. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Jobs API to support bulk import in Azure Digital Twins
GA release for bulk import support for Azure Digital Twins Read More for the details.

AWS – New Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) Packet Analyzer simplifies migration to IMDSv2
You can now use the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) Packet Analyzer to identify sources of IMDSv1 calls on your EC2 instances. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Detective extends investigations for new threat detections
Amazon Detective now supports security investigations for Amazon GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring, GuardDuty RDS Protection, and Lambda Protection. GuardDuty and Detective are part of a broad set of fully managed AWS security services that help customers identify potential security risks, so they can respond quickly, freeing security teams to focus on tasks with the highest […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on your metrics, logs, and traces. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Support Plan Offer extended to December 31, 2023
The existing Azure Support offer is being extended. The promotion will run from July 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal
Increase resiliency, higher availability, and flexibility by utilizing more than 2 Standard Load Balancers per VM. Read More for the details.