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AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a target
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL as a target. Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL is a new translation layer for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition that enables Aurora to understand commands from applications written for Microsoft SQL Server. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform full load migrations to […]

Azure – Public preview: Microsoft Purview data sharing
Microsoft Purview data sharing for in-place data sharing for Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2) and Azure Blob Storage is now in public preview. Read More for the details.

GCP – Find your solution more easily with our new Solution Finder
Last October we rolled out a new web experience to help you better understand the products and solutions best suited for your projects, connect you directly to the developer documentation for each product to get started quickly, and help you visualize usage and associated costs to have a better idea of what to expect before […]

GCP – What GKE users need to know about Kubernetes’ new service account tokens
When you deploy an application on Kubernetes, it runs as a service account — a system user understood by the Kubernetes control plane. The service account is the basic tool for configuring what an application is allowed to do, analogous to the concept of an operating system user on a single machine. Within a Kubernetes […]

AWS – AWS IoT Greengrass now supports MQTT v5
AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software. We are excited to announce our version 2.6 release, which adds edge support for MQTT version 5, an updated device-to-device communication specification that includes many additional feature improvements over the MQTT version […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.1 is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability (GA) of AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.1 (cfn-guard), which enhances Guard 2.0 with new features. CloudFormation Guard is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line interface (CLI) that helps enterprises keep their AWS infrastructure and application resources in compliance with their company policy guidelines. CloudFormation Guard provides compliance administrators […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight Authors can now learn and experience Q before signing up
QuickSight Authors can now try, learn and experience Q before signing up. Authors can choose from six different sample topics to explore relevant dashboard visualizations and ask questions about data in the context of exploration to fully explore Q’s capability before signing up. This feature makes it easy for authors to understand and learn about […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge cross-Region routing is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge cross-Region routing allows customers to consolidate events from numerous regions into one central Region. This makes it easier for customers to centralize their events in the destination Region and write code that reacts to them or replicate events from source to destinations Regions to help synchronize data across Regions. Today, we are excited […]

AWS – Amazon Pinpoint launches journey schedule for more precise communication delivery
Journeys in Amazon Pinpoint now allows customers to define a schedule for channel communications based on day of the week, and day of the year. In addition, Amazon Pinpoint has added two new journey sending limits to help customers control the volume of communications sent to a user. Amazon Pinpoint journeys are multi-step campaigns that […]
AWS – Integration of AWS Well-Architected Tool with AWS Organizations
AWS Well-Architected Tool now integrates with AWS Organizations enabling cloud architects to share their workloads and custom lenses more broadly across their organization. AWS Organizations is an account management service that allows customers to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into a single, centrally managed organization. This update will increase efficiency and make it easier to share […]