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AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports timeline logs for Channel Assembly
AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly can now emit logs of a channel timeline to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Starting today, you can configure a channel to emit an “As Run” timeline log. This will log important play out events such as source content, start times, ad breaks inserted, and more. Using Amazon CloudWatch Insights, you can […]

Azure – Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion
Convert append blobs and page blobs to block blobs so that you can apply access tiers. Read More for the details.

AWS – Bottlerocket now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose built to host container workloads, now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging when used with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere) bare metal deployments. The added functionality allows customers using Bottlerocket on bare metal to avoid a single point of failure in the network stack and […]

AWS – AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL now supports 5 new transforms
AWS Glue Studio now offers 5 new visual transforms: Flatten, Format timestamp, To timestamp, Add identifier, and Add UUID. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface that helps ETL developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs quickly. With this new feature ETL developers can prepare data for analysis faster without […]

Azure – Chaos studio – Public preview updates for January 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023. Read More for the details.

GCP – Introducing Security Command Center’s project-level, pay-as-you-go options
One of the toughest challenges security teams can face occurs when IT leaders recognize the urgency to secure their organization’s cloud workloads and data, but operational hurdles create delays that can leave resources vulnerable to cyberattacks. Giving security teams the flexibility to rapidly apply security controls to their most sensitive applications can help ensure that […]

GCP – How microservices and cloud IT helped a popular appointment booking service scale 200 percent
It’s a Friday afternoon and you’re heading home to New York after a two week vacation from somewhere that’s been on your bucket list since you were 12. You find out that you have a big meeting with your entire C-Suite on Monday morning. You look in the mirror, and immediately recognize the need for […]

GCP – Verify Cloud Run service availability with new dedicated uptime checks
A great end user experience is essential to the success of any business. Increasingly, businesses have come to rely on web applications to run their key processes. Any downtime or degradation of user experience across these applications can cause significant losses for the business both in monetary terms and user trust. Therefore, having the ability […]

GCP – Improved gVisor file system performance for GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine and Cloud Functions
Flexible application architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and container workloads often run untrusted code and hence should be isolated from sensitive infrastructure. One common solution has been to deploy defense-in-depth products (like GKE Sandbox which uses gVisor) to isolate workloads with an extra layer of protection. Google Cloud’s serverless products (App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions) also […]
AWS – AWS announces access of Simple Monthly Calculator estimates in the AWS Pricing Calculator
You can now convert previously saved Simple Monthly Calculator (SMC) estimates in AWS Pricing Calculator. Read More for the details.