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AWS – AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces a mode for short-lived certificates
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now offers short-lived certificate mode, a lower cost mode of AWS Private CA designed for issuing short-lived certificates. With this new mode, public key infrastructure (PKI) administrators, builders, and developers can save money when issuing certificates with validity periods of 7 days or fewer. If you use certificates […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access for WSP now includes 7 new features, including bi-directional audio/video
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports the following new features for WorkSpaces Web Access using the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP): Bi-directional audio/video – IT administrators can make video conferencing and other tools that use webcam and microphone available to their end users who use Web Access, to enhance the ability of teams to collaborate from anywhere. Clipboard […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas supports tags to track and allocate costs incurred by users
We are excited to announce the support of assigning tags to user-profiles created within Amazon SageMaker. This enables you to track Amazon SageMaker Canvas usage costs categorized by users, departments, lines of businesses, or cost centers. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS
Get reliability and consistency from cloud to edge across the AKS using the Mariner container optimized OS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure CNI Powered by Cilium
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API
Unlock near real time analytics on your graph data with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane RBAC
Create users and roles and configure fine-grained access to your database account data for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB data plane. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Improved passive geo-replication for Azure Cache for Redis
Utilize new functionality that makes passive geo-replication more seamless and transparent. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Read replicas for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
Read replicas are used to offload read workloads and for disaster recovery scenarios in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, a managed service running the open source Postgres database. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL Public preview updates for late October 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late October 2022. Read More for the details.