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AWS – Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, enabling you to optimize the performance of your backend application servers while helping to keep your workloads secure. TLS 1.3 on ALB works by offloading encryption and decryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to the load balancer. TLS […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 15
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 15. PostgreSQL 15 includes new features such as the SQL standard “MERGE” command for conditional SQL queries, performance improvements for both in-memory and disk-based sorting, support for two-phase commit, and row/column filtering for logical replication. The PostgreSQL 15 release also adds support for server-side […]

AWS – AWS announces new edge location in Peru
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces Amazon CloudFront expansion in Peru by launching a new edge location in Lima. Customers in Perú can expect up to 50 percent improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location to provide end users faster, more responsive applications. The new AWS edge location brings the […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now enables OAuth based access to Snowflake
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports OAuth based authentication with identity providers including Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, and Ping Federate to access data in Snowflake for machine learning (ML). Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for ML from weeks to minutes using a visual interface in Amazon SageMaker Studio. […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub is now available in three additional AWS Regions
AWS Security Hub is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) AWS Regions. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in those Regions and take advantage of more than 80 security controls to automatically check your security posture. Read […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Maps Creator – Improved indoor maps onboarding and new Features API
An updated Conversion service now allows you to easily onboard indoor maps and a new Features API to read and edit your map features! Read More for the details.

AWS – VPC DNS Query Logging Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Route 53 Resolver Query Logging enables you log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation language extensions transform is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions
Today, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of language Transform called ‘AWS::LanguageExtensions‘ to Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. When declared in a template, the transform enables extensions to the template language in AWS CloudFormation. The language extensions transform expands the functionality of the base CloudFormation JSON/YAML […]

Azure – General availability: Reserved namespaces for subdomains
Azure Traffic Manager now enables reserving domain labels across all traffic manager profiles. Read More for the details.
GCP – Boost your development on Cloud Spanner change streams with a new tail tool
Cloud Spanner change streams is a flexible, scalable mechanism to collect and stream out change data from Spanner databases. It allows you to integrate with downstream systems such as BigQuery and Pub/Sub to process the incremental data changes happening in Spanner databases for analytics, event triggering, and many other use cases. Today, we’re excited to […]