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AWS – AWS Storage Gateway updates support for VMware and Microsoft hypervisors
AWS Storage Gateway adds support for VMware ESXi 7.0 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2022 and 2019 hypervisors, enabling you to deploy your gateway virtual machines on the latest versions of these hypervisors. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS announces increased service quota for container instances per cluster
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today increased the default service quota for container instances per cluster. You can now launch up to 5,000 instances per cluster, an increase from 2,000. The limit increase enables customers to scale further and improve manageability of their clusters. Read More for the details.

AWS – Sustainability Pillar is now available in AWS Well-Architected Tool
AWS introduced the Sustainability Pillar during re:Invent 2021 to help customers minimize the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads. Today, the Sustainability Pillar is available for customers to use during workload reviews in the AWS Well-Architected Tool, a central place for cloud architecture best practices and guidance. The Sustainability Pillar is designed to help CTOs, […]

AWS – The AWS Lambda console now supports bulk update of layers
You can now select all or a subset of the functions that use a Lambda layer, and update them simultaneously to a newer layer version in the Lambda console. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Redshift launches Concurrency Scaling in the Europe (Stockholm) region
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region
You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and helps support your local data residency obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Design, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances […]

AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports template tagging and search in the console
Today, Amazon Pinpoint launched the ability to add tags to messaging templates in the template editor. Amazon Pinpoint is an omnichannel marketing and communication service that helps customers engage their users by sending messages through targeted messaging campaigns across email, SMS, push notification, in-app, and social media channels. A tag is a label that customers […]

GCP – Force Terraform resource recreation
Imagine that you provisioned a Terraform resource in your environment running on a public cloud, such as Google Cloud, and you need to destroy and recreate the resource so you can start from a clean state. Terraform gives you two tools to accomplish this: The terraform taint command, which instructs Terraform to mark an object […]

AWS – EKS add-ons support for EBS CSI driver is now generally available
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and EKS API to install and manage the the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver. This launch enables a simple experience for attaching persistent storage to an EKS cluster. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports Server Timing headers
Starting today, you can configure your CloudFront distributions to include Server Timing headers to monitor CloudFront behavior and performance. Server Timing headers provide detailed performance information, such as whether content was served from cache when a request was received, how the request was routed to the CloudFront edge location, and how much time elapsed during […]