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AWS – Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support is generally available for Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Starting today, you can now use Amazon Polly inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), instead of connecting over the internet, which allows you to have better control over your […]

AWS – Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.17.2 and increased connection limits for ActiveMQ
Amazon MQ now provides support for ActiveMQ 5.17.2, which includes several fixes and enhancements to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.17.1. The default connection limits for ActiveMQ brokers on Amazon MQ has been increased to 300 connections per transport protocol for mq.t2.micro and mq.t3.micro broker types and 2,000 connections per transport protocol for all other supported broker […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now supports the Murmur3Partioner
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports the Murmur3Partitioner. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub launches support for the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0
AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0 requirements, Level 1 and 2 (CIS v1.4.0). Security Hub’s CIS v1.4.0 standard includes up to 39 automated rules that conduct continuous checks against 38 CIS v1.4.0 requirements across 8 AWS services. The CIS v1.4.0 […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id, R6id instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation instances: all […]

AWS – AWS Config now supports 14 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 14 more resource types for services including AWS IoT Events, AWS Cloud Map, Amazon EventBridge, EC2 Image Builder, AWS DataSync, AWS Glue, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1]. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Static Web Apps support for Gitlab and Bitbucket
Deploy Static Web Apps using Gitlab and Bitbucket as CI/CD providers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
Deploy applications to staging environments using Azure DevOps. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing recurring custom line items for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, customers can create custom line items in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) that span across multiple billing periods. For customers who want to apply consistent discounts or fees to specific billing groups, recurring custom line items remove the need to create a new custom line item each month for the same purpose. For example, customers […]
Azure – General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
You can use new cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets for optimization. Read More for the details.