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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.

Azure – Public preview: Intra-account container copy for Azure Cosmos DB
Intra-account container copy helps you create offline copies of containers within Azure Cosmos DB SQL API and Cassandra API accounts. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Develop your applications with more flexibility with retryable writes in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
Assess, get right-sized Azure recommendations for Azure migration targets, and migrate databases offline from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for November 2022
New public preview features include reading Delta Lakes in fewer steps, debugging and monitoring training jobs, and performing data wrangling. Read More for the details.