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Azure – Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024
Deprecation notice: transition from Azure MFA Server to Azure MFA by 30 September 2024. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 enables you to opt out of directly shared Amazon Machine Images
Starting today, you can remove your AWS account from launch permissions for an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that was directly shared with your AWS account. You can leverage this capability, for example, to reduce the likelihood of launching an EC2 instance with an unused or deprecated AMI that was shared with you earlier. Read More […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS region
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose makes it easier to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. You can use it to capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch, and third party providers like Splunk and Datadog, enabling near real-time analytics. Read More for the details.

AWS – RDS Custom for SQL Server Is Now Available in the Seoul, São Paulo and Canada (Central) Regions
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, a managed database service that allows access to the operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central). Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server manages the operations and backups of databases in the cloud, while […]

AWS – EMR on EKS now supports job templates to store and share parameters across job runs
We are excited to announce the general availability of job templates in Amazon EMR on EKS. Job templates allow you to create and store templates to configure Spark applications parameters. This helps you ensure consistent settings across applications by reusing and enforcing configuration overrides in data pipelines. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EKS now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option with up to 2x faster transaction commit latency is now available in 12 additional AWS regions
The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in twelve additional regions. This deployment option gives you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances. Read […]

AWS – Amazon MSK Serverless expands its availability to Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central) AWS Regions
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless in the Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets improves insights on stack instances for stack set operations
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets improves access to detailed information on stack instances for stack set operations. You can get the count of failed stack instances for stack set operations in DescribeStackSetOperation. Additionally, you can list and filter stack instances for stack set operations in ListStackInstances. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds Wiz as a new integration partner
AWS Security Hub has added Wiz as a new integration partner to help you with your cloud security posture monitoring. Wiz sends findings about critical risks in your cloud environment to Security Hub to help you maintain your security posture and compliance events. Integration with Wiz brings Security Hub to 82 partner integrations. Read More for the […]