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Azure – Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas)
Use Azure REST Quota API to manage service limits (quotas), query current usage and quotas, and even update limits for your supported Azure resources, when required. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot experiments run with Ensemble training mode provide additional metrics and visibility into the AutoML workflow
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides insights into the underlying workflow for each trial within a SageMaker Autopilot experiment launched with ensemble training mode. SageMaker Autopilot ranks a list of machine learning (ML) models by inference latency i.e. the time one has to wait to get prediction result from a real time endpoint to which the […]

AWS – Support for reading and writing data in Amazon DynamoDB and cross account Amazon S3 access with Amazon EMR Serverless
Amazon EMR Serverless announces support for reading and writing data in Amazon DynamoDB with your Spark and Hive workflows. You can now export, import, query and, join tables in Amazon DynamoDB directly from your EMR Serverless Spark and/or Hive applications. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database that meets the latency and throughput requirements of […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now displays compliance status of external AWS Config rules
AWS Control Tower now displays the compliance status of AWS Config rules deployed outside of AWS Control Tower. This view provides you with visibility into the compliance status of externally applied AWS Config rules in addition to AWS Config rules set up by AWS Control Tower. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for configuring Spark properties within EMR Studio Jupyter Notebooks
We are excited to announce support for configuring Spark properties within EMR Studio Jupyter Notebook sessions for interactive Spark workloads. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to efficiently run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to […]

Azure – Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines is provides flexibility to choose any subscription during restore. Read More for the details.

GCP – Workflows patterns and best practices – Part 1
For the last couple of years, we’ve been using Workflows, Google Cloud’s service orchestrator, to bring order to our serverless microservices architectures. As we used and gained more experience with Workflows and service orchestration, we shared what he had learned in conference talks, blog posts, samples, and tutorials. Along the way, some common patterns and […]

AWS – AWS Secrets Manager now supports rotation of secrets as often as every four hours
AWS Secrets Manager now supports the ability to rotate secrets as often as every four hours, while providing the same managed rotation experience. With this launch, you can now use Secrets Manager to automate the rotation of credentials and access tokens that need to be refreshed more than once per day. This enables greater flexibility for […]

AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports syncing products with Infrastructure as Code template files from GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or Bitbucket
AWS Service Catalog customers can now create AWS Service Catalog products that are synced to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are managed in external repositories such as GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or Bitbucket. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup announces support for SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 in Preview
AWS Backup now offers a simple, cost-effective, and SAP-certified application-consistent backup and restore solution for SAP HANA databases running on Amazon EC2. With this launch, you can centrally automate backup and restore of your SAP HANA application data in addition to the currently supported AWS services. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you […]