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AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud Are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK offers API endpoints for media pipeline in Oregon, Frankfurt, and Singapore
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging to their web applications. Media Pipelines allow developers to capture the contents of Amazon Chime SDK WebRTC media sessions to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice. Starting today, the Amazon Chime SDK now has media pipeline API […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 I4i instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 I4i instances. Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over I3 instances, and always-on […]

AWS – AWS Snow launches Large Data Migration Manager for planning and managing large data migrations from your premises to AWS
Today, AWS Snow Family launches Large Data Migration Manager, a new feature that enables you to plan, track, and manage your large data migrations when using multiple Snowball Edge service products. You can now easily plan and monitor your jobs from a minimum of 500 Terrabytes to petabyte scale data migrations. Using Large Data Migration Manager […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’
New Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’ makes your private images public. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for Postgres now supports M6i and R6i instances with new instance sizes up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB RAM
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Postgres, version 11 and higher, now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds stream chat feature
You can now build scalable stream chat rooms with built-in moderation options designed to accompany live streaming video using the new Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) stream chat feature. With this feature, streamers and viewers can build community relationships by asking questions and participating in discussions. Amazon IVS chat provides chat room resource management […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower now supports Python 3.9 runtime
Today, we are announcing an update to AWS Control Tower that includes a change to the Notification Forwarder Lambda to use the Python version 3.9 runtime. This update addresses the planned deprecation of Python version 3.6 runtime. Function invocations continue indefinitely after the runtime version reaches end of support. However, AWS strongly recommends that you […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure SQL Database storage limits increase for selected compute sizes
Data storage limits have increased over 30% for selected mid-size compute configurations to help reduce costs. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server higher burstable compute
Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server is now offering more options for burstable compute for you to choose from depending on your workload. Read More for the details.