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Azure – Public preview: Immutable vaults for Azure Backup
Immutable vaults helps you protect your backups against threats like ransomware attacks and malicious actors by ensuring that your backup data cannot be deleted before its intended expiry time. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Multi-user authorization for Backup vaults
Multi-user authorization provides enhanced protection for your backup data against unauthorized critical operations. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Enhanced soft delete for Azure Backup
Enhanced soft delete helps you recover your backup data after it has been deleted, giving you protection against data loss scenarios like ransomwares, malicious actors, and accidental deletes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Kusto Trender
Kusto Trender is a new JavaScript client library for Kusto focused on IoT scenarios. It is now available on GitHub. Read More for the details.
AWS – RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with new developer productivity and security capabilities
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with the new RStudio Workbench version 2022.02.2-485.pro2 with enhanced developer productivity and security capabilities. The new capabilities include an enhanced R help system, improved editor support for the R pipe-bind placeholder and full end-to-end encryption that secures communication between the RStudioServerPro and RSession applications. Read More for the details.
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 […]