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Azure – Public preview: Azure SQL Database offline migrations in Azure SQL Migration extension
Assess, get right-sized Azure recommendations for Azure migration targets, and migrate databases offline from on-premises SQL Server to Azure SQL Database. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning—Public preview updates for November 2022
New public preview features include reading Delta Lakes in fewer steps, debugging and monitoring training jobs, and performing data wrangling. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022
New GA features include the ability to automate auto-shutdown/auto-start schedules, configure and customize a compute instance, seamlessly build NLP/vision models, and assess AI systems. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Multivariate Anomaly Detection
Multivariate Anomaly Detection will allow you to evaluate multiple signals and the correlations between them to find sudden changes in data patterns. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server in new China regions
Deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server workloads in two new China regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 announces network bandwidth support in attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet
Starting today, you can request EC2 instances based on your workload’s network bandwidth requirements through attribute-based instance type selection. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports specifying list of instance types to use in attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet
Starting today, you can configure the set of instance types used when requesting EC2 capacity with attribute-based instance type selection. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes
Today, AWS announced the availability of next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Amazon RDS gp3 volumes gives you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. Every gp3 volume provides you the ability to select from 20 GiB to […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of SPICE consumption by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of SPICE consumption by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. QuickSight developers and administrators can use these metrics to observe and monitor SPICE consumption and proactively monitor if a QuickSight account is reaching its SPICE capacity limit which might result in failed dataset ingestions. This allows them to provide their readers […]