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AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20 and 22 operating systems
AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20.04 Long Term Support (LTS) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized, and AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices. Ubuntu operating systems on Snow devices enable customers to deploy their edge compute workloads such as IoT, AI/ML, and Container workloads on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS […]

AWS – AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports VPC prefix lists to simplify routing policy management
AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) prefix lists, simplifying management of your routing policies to connect to your on-premises network. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports software updates on AWS Snowcone
Today, AWS Snow Family announces a new feature that allows for easy updates to the system software of your AWS Snowcone devices. Now, you can request and download Snow system software updates from AWS. It is now possible to install software updates on your AWS Snowcone device using the AWS Snowball Edge client and without […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra Expanded Data Formats Support
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index documents of additional data types in addition to the five types previously supported. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports increasing storage size when creating read replicas and restoring databases from snapshots
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports increasing the allocated storage size when creating a read replica, when restoring a database from a snapshot, or when restoring a database instance to a point in time. This capability is supported on Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports timeline logs for Channel Assembly
AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly can now emit logs of a channel timeline to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Starting today, you can configure a channel to emit an “As Run” timeline log. This will log important play out events such as source content, start times, ad breaks inserted, and more. Using Amazon CloudWatch Insights, you can […]

Azure – Generally available: Apply Azure storage access tiers to append blobs and page blobs with blob type conversion
Convert append blobs and page blobs to block blobs so that you can apply access tiers. Read More for the details.

AWS – Bottlerocket now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose built to host container workloads, now supports network bonding and VLAN tagging when used with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Anywhere (Amazon EKS Anywhere) bare metal deployments. The added functionality allows customers using Bottlerocket on bare metal to avoid a single point of failure in the network stack and […]

AWS – AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL now supports 5 new transforms
AWS Glue Studio now offers 5 new visual transforms: Flatten, Format timestamp, To timestamp, Add identifier, and Add UUID. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface that helps ETL developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs quickly. With this new feature ETL developers can prepare data for analysis faster without […]
Azure – Chaos studio – Public preview updates for January 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Chaos Studio in January 2023. Read More for the details.