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AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Predictive Scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. To see the list of all […]

AWS – AWS Cloud Map is available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region
AWS Cloud Map is now available in Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other […]

AWS – AWS Lambda now supports event filtering for Amazon MSK, Self-Manged Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ as event sources
AWS Lambda now supports content filtering options for Amazon MSK, Self-Managed Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache ActiveMQ, and Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ. With event pattern content filtering, customers can write complex rules so that their Lambda function is only invoked to process meaningful events. This helps reduce traffic to customers’ Lambda functions, simplifies code, and […]

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, […]