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AWS – AWS Proton launches dashboard
AWS Proton introduces the Proton dashboard, a centralized view of all Proton resources deployed and managed by AWS Proton. Platform engineers use Proton to define their environment and service infrastructure in AWS – now through the Proton dashboard they can monitor which of their templates are in use and the up-to-date status of their environments and […]

AWS – AWS Amplify announces general availability of In-app messaging notifications for React and React Native
AWS Amplify allows developers to set up In-app messaging notification campaigns that are triggered and shown to their users when specific events occur. This feature empowers developers to provide contextual messages to users on web apps on React and cross platform mobile apps with React Native. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports IAM Authentication for Redis clusters
Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication access to Redis clusters. By using IAM, you can associate IAM users and roles with ElastiCache for Redis users and manage their cluster access. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. You can now use DataSync to copy data to or from AWS Storage services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx in this region. You can also use DataSync to copy data between AWS Storage services within the AWS Middle East […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.3
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 2.3. With this version, Amazon OpenSearch Service adds several features such as new algorithms to the machine learning (ML) commons library, improvements to aggregations, improvements to map visualizations, alerting, anomaly detection, and more. Read More for the details.

GCP – What can you build with the new Google Cloud developer subscription?
To help you grow and build faster – and take advantage of the 123 product announcements from Next ‘22 – last month we launched theGoogle Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription with new Innovators Plus benefits. We’re already hearing rave reviews from subscribers from England to Indonesia, and want to share what others are learning and […]

AWS – AWS Proton now supports AWS CDK through CodeBuild provisioning
AWS Proton now allows customers to specify custom commands used to provision infrastructure from their templates, enabling them to manage templates defined using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and other templating and provisioning tools through Proton. Platform engineers use Proton to define and keep infrastructure updated that developers can provision using a self-service interface. Now, […]

AWS – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces now automatically handles DNS changes
Today, AWS launched automatic handling of IP address changes for Refactor Spaces Services. Customers use automatic DNS updates to avoid building infrastructure to manage service IP address changes and gain improved operational safety. This new feature lets customers create services using DNS names in the URL and Refactor Spaces automatically re-resolves the DNS name when […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 increases size limit for AMI store and restore operations
Starting today, you can now store and restore up to 5TB Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to and from an Amazon S3 bucket. This enables storing and transferring of larger AMIs between partitions. The old limit was 1TB. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Arm-based VMs now available in four additional Azure regions
The Azure Arm-based VMs are now available in four more regions. Read More for the details.