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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.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Monitor Agent supports VM Insights in Azure Government Cloud
Azure Government Cloud customers can now enable VM Insights via the new Azure Monitor Agent, to monitor the client workload on the VMs or VMSS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor application insights configurable Real User Monitoring for Java
The new “browserSdkLoader” configuration in the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Java Distro makes it easier than ever to enable Real User Monitoring (RUM) in Application Insights. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor Agent Health experience
The Azure Monitor Agent Health experience is now available in preview. Identify data collection problems across your organization before they start impacting your business. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Monitor Logs improved table-level RBAC
Today we announce an improvement to the table-level RBAC used to assign permissions to specific tables Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Managed private endpoint for Azure Managed Grafana
Managed private endpoint in Azure Managed Grafana enables a customer to connect their Grafana workspace privately to supported Azure data sources. It is simple to configure and manage. Read More for the details.