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AWS – Announcing a new Cost Explorer console experience
Starting today, Cost Explorer customers will see a new interface in the console to visualize their cost and usage. The new summary widget provides an at-a-glance view of the total and average monthly cost. Customers can also look up specific spend and usage information using the new search function introduced in the table view. Cost […]

Azure – Public preview: Computer Vision Image Analysis 4.0
Get results from all Image Analysis visual features including Read (OCR) with only need one API call. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are now available in additional region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Service Bus Explorer for the Azure portal
Manage and work with your messages directly in the portal integrated version of Service Bus Explorer. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
Configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimal version of transport layer security (TLS). Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Support for HANA System Replication in Azure Backup for HANA
Now, if a HANA database fails over with HANA System Replication, backups are automatically continued from the new primary, with Azure Backup for HANA. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments
Azure Deployment Environments has entered public preview and helps dev teams create and manage all types of environments throughout the application lifecycle. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: 16MB limit per document in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Develop your applications with more flexibility with a higher 16MB document limit in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Infrastructure encryption using customer managed key for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Infrastructure encryption with customer managed keys adds a second layer of encryption for your data at rest using customer managed keys. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server auto scale IO
Use auto scale IO to automatically scale the IO on an instance of Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server to efficiently adapt for workload needs without manual intervention. Read More for the details.