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AWS – AWS Glue now provides continuous logs in AWS Glue Job Monitoring
AWS Glue now displays continuous logs on the job run details page of AWS Glue Studio. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration and ETL service that helps discover, prepare, move, and integrate data for analytics and machine learning (ML). As your ETL and data integration jobs run, you can now see the logs update […]

AWS – AWS Glue introduces faster and simpler permissions setup
AWS Glue now offers guided permissions setup in AWS Console. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration and ETL service that helps discover, prepare, move, and integrate data for analytics and machine learning (ML). Administrators can use the new setup tool to grant IAM roles and users access to AWS Glue and their data, as […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service Fleet Advisor now supports target recommendations
Today, AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) announces the general availability of Fleet Advisor target recommendations, which gathers performance metrics and usage patterns of self-managed databases to recommend potential database engine and instance options for migration to AWS. Target recommendations can help to quickly identify the best migration option, based on estimated costs and limitations […]

Azure – Public Preview: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor – Container Insights
Customers can now collect Syslog from their AKS Clusters using Azure Monitor – Container Insights. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL
Azure Workbooks now have a Prometheus data source allowing users to write PromQL natively in the portal. The Prometheus explorer offers an out of the box querying experience. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in the China North 3 Azure region
Now available in the China North 3 Azure region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Config now supports 18 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 18 more resource types for services, including AWS Device Farm, AWS Budgets, Amazon Lex, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, AWS IoT Core, Amazon Route 53 Resolver, AWS RoboMaker, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Lookout for Metrics, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Elemental MediaPackage. […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports data delivery to Elastic
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to Elastic. With this integration, Elastic users have an easier way to ingest streaming data to Elastic and consume the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) solutions for enterprise search, observability, and security without having to manage applications or write code. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Open Data Maps for Amazon Location Service
AWS announces the general availability of the Open Data Maps feature for Amazon Location Service. Open Data Maps is a new data provider option for the Maps feature based on OpenStreetMap (OSM), a geospatial data source supported by a global community. Developers can now easily access reliable and up-to-date OSM data with no upfront investment […]
GCP – Celebrating International Women’s Day with #IAmRemarkable
We have made great strides toward more equitable workplaces in the past decade. This is particularly true since 2020 and something to celebrate on the occasion of International Women’s Day. It’s also an appropriate time to reflect on how we can continue to reach an equitable playing field by confronting biases and empowering all people […]