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AWS – AWS Well-Architected Tool now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS is excited to announce that the AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud. The AWS Well-Architected Tool is used to help customers review the state of their applications and workloads against architectural […]

AWS – Announcing wildcard support in Amazon EKS Fargate Profile Selectors
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to more easily run workloads from various Kubernetes namespaces on AWS Fargate serverless compute with a single EKS Fargate Profile. Using Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate enables you to use Kubernetes without having to worry about compute infrastructure configuration and maintenance. Previously, you had to specify […]

AWS – AWS App Mesh adds support for multiple listeners
AWS App Mesh adds support for multiple listeners, allowing you to run applications with several open ports in a mesh. This enables you to control and secure inbound and outbound traffic for different application ports, as well as to collect port-specific metrics for this traffic. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level […]

AWS – AWS Lambda now supports custom Consumer Group IDs for Amazon MSK and Self-Managed Kafka as event sources
AWS Lambda now supports custom Consumer Group IDs when using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) or Self-Managed Kafka as an event source. Kafka uses Consumer Group IDs to identify consumer membership and record consumer checkpoints. Using a custom Consumer Group ID is ideal for customers with workloads that require disaster recovery or fail‑over […]

AWS – AWS Ground Station adds support for wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency in Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) support for Software Defined Radios (SDRs) to enable customers to downlink more data in less time and reduce costs. AWS Ground Station regions Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) join the Middle East (Bahrain) region to offer customers a total […]

AWS – Amazon EKS announces cluster-level cost allocation tagging
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now makes it easier for customers to understand how their Amazon EC2 costs are driven by individual EKS clusters. Customers who choose to use multiple EKS clusters to segment their workloads to improve their resilience and/or security posture now get breakdowns of their EC2 costs by EKS cluster using AWS […]

AWS – Amazon Lex now supports conditional branching for simplified dialog management
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Today, we are excited to announce support for conditional branching capability so you can easily design conversations for your users. […]

GCP – Insights on the future of work and collaboration
Business leaders and IT professionals come to Google Workspace to build secure, cloud-first collaboration solutions that transform how people work together. Here’s the latest from Google Workspace leaders and partners about the evolving future of work and collaboration, all in one place. Empowering everyday innovation to build a more adaptive business Hear from Google Workspace […]

Azure – Public preview: Backup database with S3-compatible storage for Arc-enabled SQL MI
Use S3-compatible object storage as a backup and restore destination. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Reserved instance pricing for Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise
Gain up to a 55 percent discount with reserved pricing on the Enterprise tiers of Azure Cache for Redis by committing to spend for one- or three-years. Read More for the details.