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AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches data bars for tables
Amazon QuickSight now supports data bars for tables. Data bars are essentially bar charts displayed for a given column, where the bar length specifies the magnitude of the cell value relative to the range of values in the same column. Data bars make it easier to read and compare values and quickly spot outliers. You […]
AWS – Increased field limits and performance improvements for Pivot table in Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight pivot tables now support more data than ever before with new the field limits, unlocking advance use cases. The value field well limits have been increased from 20 to 40, and Rows and Columns have been increased from 20 each to a combined limit of 40. For example, if the user has 34 […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon provided contiguous IPv6 CIDRs blocks
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon provided IPv6 contiguous Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Within IPAM, customers can create IPv6 publicly scoped pools and provision with BYOIP CIDR blocks. Now, customers can provision Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR blocks from /52 up to /40 in size into separate pools […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro
AWS Local Zones are now available in three new metro areas—Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now supports optimized pricing estimation for EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Windows Server and SQL Server on Amazon EC2 calculator now supports Dedicated Hosts price estimation. With this feature, you can now generate optimized price estimate for bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios on Dedicated Hosts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available
Now generally available, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch Serverless streamlines the process of running petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even […]
AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) customers can now change response for Config Rules
We’re excited to announce the ability to change the default AMS response for Config Rules in Accelerate operations plan. With this release, customers can now choose whether they want AMS to remediate, ask for customer approval, or just add to a monthly report on the alerts from AMS supported security Config Rules. By adjusting the […]
Azure – Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage
To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Ultra Disks are now available in public preview in the Sweden Central and US West 3 Azure region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Manage Kubernetes configuration at scale using the new GitOps observability dashboard
As a Platform Administrator or Operator, you’ve already been using Config Sync to sync your configurations — deployments, policy definitions, Helm charts, ConfigMaps, and more — consistently across many Kubernetes clusters. But with the excitement of solving one problem comes a new one: real time visibility on configuration syncs and failures across clusters. When operating […]