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Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Germany West Central Azure region
Azure VMware Solution has now expanded availability to Germany West Central, this update is in addition to the existing availability multiple Azure regions in US, Europe, Australia, Japan, UK, Canada, Brazil and Southeast Asia (Singapore). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports cross account KMS keys for exporting RDS Snapshots
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers the ability to specify an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer master key (CMK) from a different account when exporting an Amazon RDS Snapshot to Amazon S3. This option helps customers organize and consolidate their KMS keys by eliminating the need to create keys in each account […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds support for AWS PrivateLink for private access to Security Hub APIs
AWS Security Hub now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so that you can securely initiate API calls to Security Hub from within your VPC without requiring those calls to traverse across the Internet. AWS PrivateLink support for Security Hub is now available in all AWS Regions where Security Hub is available. To […]
Azure – Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azure’s enterprise capabilities
Apply advanced language models to a variety of use cases with Azure OpenAI Service. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing ability to connect to EMR clusters in different subnets in EMR Studio
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio Workspaces now support connecting to EMR clusters in different subnets that are […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker launches fully-managed RStudio Workbench
Today we are excited to announce the launch of RStudio on Amazon SageMaker, the industry’s first fully managed RStudio integrated development environment (IDE). You can easily bring your current RStudio license and migrate self-managed RStudio environment to Amazon SageMaker in a few simple steps. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup Vault Lock is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region and AWS China (Ningxia) Region
AWS Backup Vault Lock is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. AWS Backup enables customers to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services through a fully managed and cost-effective solution. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Automation support for Managed Identities is now generally available
Use Managed Identities to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication. Read More for the details.
Azure – PowerShell 7.1 runbook support in Azure Automation available in public preview
Use PowerShell 7.1 for infrastructure automation & orchestration scenarios across Azure & non-Azure environment through Azure Automation runbooks. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database Expands Availability to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora Global Database is a feature of Amazon Aurora. It is designed for applications with a global footprint. It allows a single Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions, with fast replication to enable low-latency global reads and disaster recovery from Region-wide outages. With today’s launch, Amazon Aurora Global Database is available in the AWS […]