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Azure – Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) will be retired on 14 March 2026
Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 14 March 2026. Read More for the details.

Azure – We’re retiring Cluster Configuration with Flux v1 on 24 May 2025 – transition to GitOps extension for Kubernetes to move to Flux v2
Migrate to GitOps Extension for Flux v2 by 24 May 2025 Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Batch classic compute node communication model will be retired on 31 March 2026
Transition Batch pools to the Simplified compute node communication model Read More for the details.

Azure – Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules
Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated. Read More for the details.

Azure – Select Batch Pool autoscale service-defined variables will be retired on 31 March 2024
Remove references in your autoscale formula for the service-defined variables Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs
AWS Backup customers can now back up and restore their virtual machines running on VMware vSphere 8. Virtual machines compatible with ESX 3.x and later can use vSphere 8.0. Additionally, AWS Backup gateway now supports backups and restores of virtual machines configured with multiple vNICs (virtual network interface cards). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now generates an AWS Glue Data Catalog when migrating to Amazon S3
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded support of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a target by adding the ability to create an AWS Glue Data Catalog from the Amazon S3 data files generated by AWS DMS. With this integration, you no longer need to run a crawler or additional extract, transform, […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Transfer Family, a service that provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), in now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for binary analysis
AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations now allows you to analyze application binaries, detect incompatibilities, and identify viable modernization pathways such as refactoring and replatforming without assessing your application source code. Strategy Recommendations can now help inspect web application binaries on Windows and Linux Servers and generate incompatibility report that you can leverage to implement viable […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports S3 data validation
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports validation to ensure that data is migrated accurately to S3. Read More for the details.