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Azure – Public preview: Arm64-based Azure VMs can deliver up to 50% better price-performance
New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure Virtual Machines, which feature Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, deliver even better price-performance than comparable x86-based Azure Linux Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 13
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL – Compatible edition major version 13. PostgreSQL 13 includes many new features and performance enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, better query planning when using extended statistics, parallelized vacuuming […]

AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS releases version 2.0 of the Amazon Pinpoint API for expanded support of SMS and voice channels
In addition to the existing Amazon Pinpoint console capabilities, the Amazon Pinpoint API 2.0 provides customers increased control over their SMS and voice sending and configuration. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports scheduled syncs of Zendesk knowledge articles
Amazon Connect now supports scheduled syncs of Zendesk for its AppIntegrations data service. AppIntegrations enable Amazon Connect customers to download data from third-party SaaS apps like CRMs, quality management, billing software, and order management solutions. You can now use Zendesk to download knowledge articles via scheduled syncs and surface them in the Amazon Connect agent […]

AWS – Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS Distro, and Amazon EKS Anywhere now support Kubernetes version 1.22
You can now use Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS Distro and Amazon EKS Anywhere to run Kubernetes version 1.22. Highlights of Kubernetes version 1.22 release includes external credential providers, server-side apply, and bound service account token volumes graduating to stable, and warning mechanisms for deprecated API usage. You can find more details about Kubernetes 1.22 release in the […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 1.2
You can now run OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards version 1.2 on Amazon OpenSearch Service. This version includes a new observability interface in OpenSearch Dashboards, improvements to several other features such as anomaly detection, k-NN, and SQL/PPL. Read More for the details.

GCP – Calling Google APIs from serverless (Part I: Cloud APIs)
Introduction As Google Cloud users, you may already be familiar with Google App Engine, Cloud Functions, or Cloud Run, our serverless platforms allowing technical practitioners to focus on building solutions, not what they run on. Google as a whole, has many divisions which provide developer tools beyond these platforms, so a common question which arises […]

Azure – Generally available: Apache Spark 3.1.2 in Azure HDinsight
Spark 3.1 is now generally available on HDInsight 4.0 release across all regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Apache Kafka 2.4 in Azure HDinsight
Apache Kafka 2.4 is now in Azure HDinsight. Read More for the details.