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AWS – Enterprise On-Ramp Support is now supported with AWS Outposts
Starting today, customers now have the option of using Enterprise On-Ramp Support or Enterprise Support to satisfy the prerequisite for ordering AWS Outposts. With the addition of Enterprise On-Ramp Support, customers now have more flexibility in selecting the AWS Support plan that best suits their Outposts workloads and support needs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Inspector now supports Windows operating system (OS) for continual software vulnerability scanning of EC2 workloads
Inspector has added Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019, 2022 support for continual EC2 vulnerability scanning. Customers that have Inspector EC2 scanning already enabled and the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent installed and configured, do not need to take any additional actions. Windows instances will now automatically and continually be scanned for software […]
AWS – Amazon Athena is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor version 14.4
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor version 14.4. We recommend you upgrade to this latest minor version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs from prior versions of PostgreSQL. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) APIs to manage users and groups at scale
AWS is launching additional APIs to create, read, update and delete users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On). The new APIs expand existing capabilities to help reduce administrative effort and save time, and provide greater visibility into the users and groups that are available in IAM Identity Center. You […]
AWS – AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: New Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors
New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure VMs, featuring Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, engineered to efficiently run scale-out, cloud-native workloads, are now available. Read More for the details.
GCP – Spanner on a modern columnar storage engine
Google was born in the cloud. At Google, we have been running massive infrastructure that powers critical internal and external facing services for more than two decades. Our investment in this infrastructure is constant, ranging from user visible features to invisible internals that makes the infrastructure more efficient, reliable and secure. Constant updates and improvements […]
GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 5 ways to reduce costs with containers
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google Cloud Product Manager Rachel Tsao explores how to save on compute costs with modern […]