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AWS – Amazon Athena announces upgraded query engine
Amazon Athena has upgraded its SQL query engine to include the latest features from the Trino open source project. Athena engine version 3 includes over 50 new SQL functions, 30 new features, and more than 90 query performance improvements. With today’s launch, Athena is also introducing a continuous integration approach to open source software management […]
AWS – Monitor Amazon EMR Serverless jobs in real-time with native Spark and Hive Tez UI
We’re excited to announce that you can now monitor and debug jobs in EMR Serverless using native Apache Spark & Hive Tez UIs. The Apache Spark & Hive Tez UIs present visual interfaces with detailed information about your running and completed jobs. You can dive into job-specific metrics and information about event timelines, stages, tasks, […]
AWS – Improve availability of SAP HANA systems on AWS with Host Auto-Failover
You can now deploy SAP HANA systems with Host Auto-Failover on AWS. Host Auto-Failover is a fully automated host fault recovery solution for SAP HANA that allows you to add one or more hosts in standby mode to an SAP HANA system. Using Host Auto-Failover, SAP HANA can automatically detect host failures (EC2 instance, OS-level, or SAP […]
Azure – General availability: Azure NetApp Files application volume group for SAP HANA
With Azure NetApp Files application volume group (AVG) for SAP HANA, you are able to deploy all volumes required to install and operate an SAP HANA system according to best practices. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer launches new option to rebalance flows when target fails or deregisters
Today we are launching a new feature that provides an option to define flow handling behavior for AWS Gateway Load Balancer. Using this option, customers can now rebalance existing flows to a healthy target, when the target fails or deregisters. This helps reduce failover time when a target becomes unhealthy, and also allows customers to […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now automates deployment of SAP Solution Manager
AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP Solution Manager 7.2 alongside SAP S/4HANA,BW/4HANA and NetWeaver on HANA solutions. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Predictive autoscale manages and scales your virtual machine scale sets by observing and learning from historical CPU usage patterns. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10 expected on October 25
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Custom network interface name configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint (PE) support of custom network interface (NIC) names is now generally available. With this feature you can now deploy PE NICs without the GUID suffix. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Static IP configurations of private endpoints
Azure private endpoint support of statically defined IP addresses is now generally available allowing you to provide static IP addresses when configuring your private endpoints. Read More for the details.