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Azure – Generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom image support in Update management center
VM Image support for Update management center has expanded with the addition of support for generalized Azure Compute Gallery custom images. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: App Service Minimum TLS Cipher Suite Now on Azure Portal
Disable Weak TLS Cipher Suites for Your App Service Web Apps (Preview) Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.05 expected on May 24
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Bastion now support shareable links
Shareable links allows users to connect to target resources via Azure Bastion without access to the Azure portal. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Kafka and Amazon MQ event sources in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MSK, self-manged Apache Kafka and Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ as event sources in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This gives customers more choices for how they want to send messages to Lambda. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on […]

AWS – Monitor the health of your Amazon IVS channels with multiple hosts
Amazon IVS now offers developers the ability to monitor the health of live streams with multiple hosts. Hosts are connected to each other using the stage resource, which allows them to exchange audio and video with each other in real time. This release gives developers building with Amazon IVS the tools needed to better understand […]

AWS – AWS announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized, a new configuration that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. Aurora I/O-Optimized offers improved performance, increasing throughput and reducing latency for customers’ most demanding workloads. With Aurora I/O-Optimized, there are zero charges for read and write I/O operations—you […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL support for Graviton3 based R7g instance family
AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement and up to 20% price-performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Aurora depending on […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports enabling Cluster Mode configuration on existing clusters
You can now update your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis cluster configuration to enable cluster mode without needing to rebuild you cluster, migrate data, or affect application availability. Cluster mode allows you to scale beyond the performance limitations of a single shard Redis cluster. For more information about cluster mode in ElastiCache for Redis, see the […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in the Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.