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AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports sharing of pipeline entities across accounts
You can now use Amazon SageMaker Model Building Pipelines with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to securely share pipeline entities across AWS accounts and access shared pipelines through direct API calls. A multi-account strategy helps achieve data, project, and team isolation while supporting software development lifecycle steps. Cross-account pipeline sharing can support a multi-account strategy without […]

AWS – AWS Glue now supports Flex execution option
AWS Glue now supports a new execution option that allows customers to reduce the costs of their pre-production, test, and non-urgent data integration workloads by up to 34%. With Flex, Glue jobs run on spare capacity in AWS. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Direct Connect expands AWS Transit Gateway support at more connection speeds
AWS Direct Connect now supports connections to AWS Transit Gateway at speeds of 500 megabits per second (Mbps) and lower, providing more cost-effective choices for Transit Gateway users when higher speed connections are not required. With this change, customers using Direct Connect at connection speeds of 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 Mbps can now can […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports promotion of managed in-region read replica
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports the promotion of a managed replica that was created using the replica function. When you promote a managed replica, it is converted from a physical standby database and activated as a standalone read/write primary database instance. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports DML query auditing with Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon S3 adds a new policy condition key to require or restrict server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C)
The new Amazon S3 condition key enables you to write policies that help you control the use of server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C). Using Amazon S3 condition keys, you can specify conditions when granting permissions in the optional ‘Condition’ element of a bucket or an IAM policy. One such condition is to require server-side […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches redesigned dashboard experience
Amazon QuickSight launched a new look and feel for the dashboard experience. The new interface enhances the reader experience by improving the discoverability, predictability, and the overall polish of the dashboards. The new dashboard experience includes: Simplified toolbar with updated icons for key actions for better visual clarity Discoverable visual menu visible on-hover to improve the […]

AWS – AWS IoT Greengrass v2 updates Stream Manager to report new telemetry metrics and more
AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software. We are excited to announce our version 2.7 release with the following features: System Telemetry Enhancements – The Stream Manager agent component now has the ability (enabled by default) to send system […]

AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6g, C6gd, and M6gd are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6g and C6gd instances are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Additionally, M6gd instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region. C6g and C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning […]
GCP – Accelerating migrations to Google Cloud with migVisor by EPAM
Application modernization is quickly becoming one of the pillars of successful digital transformation and cloud migration initiatives. Many organizations are becoming aware of the dramatic benefits that can be achieved by moving legacy, on-premises apps and databases into cloud native infrastructure and services, such as reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), elimination of expensive commercial […]