Nov 25 - Dec 01 | AWS, Azure & GCP Updates

Future-Dated Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations Now Available

Amazon EC2 now allows you to schedule Capacity Reservations to start on a future date, ensuring compute capacity is available for critical future scaling events. Specify your required capacity, start date, and minimum duration to secure your reservation, providing peace of mind for your workload needs.

AWS PrivateLink Introduces Cross-Region Connectivity

AWS PrivateLink now supports native cross-region connectivity, allowing Interface VPC endpoints to connect to services hosted in other AWS Regions. This simplifies secure, private inter-region connections without requiring cross-region peering or public internet exposure.

Amazon ECR Expands Repository Limit to 100,000

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) has increased the default repository limit per region per account from 10,000 to 100,000. This enhancement supports scaling needs and reduces the need for frequent limit increase requests. Additional increases can still be requested if needed.

AWS Amplify Introduces Passwordless Authentication with Amazon Cognito

AWS Amplify now supports Amazon Cognito's passwordless authentication, enabling developers to integrate secure login options like SMS and email one-time passwords and WebAuthn passkeys using Amplify libraries for JavaScript, Swift, and Android. This feature enhances security, simplifies login processes, and reduces risks tied to traditional passwords, improving user experience across industries.

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Context to Observability Data for Faster Analysis

Amazon CloudWatch now provides enhanced context to observability data, enabling IT operators, developers, and SREs to visualize resource relationships and navigate related telemetry seamlessly. Integrated across AWS consoles, this feature transforms metrics and logs into actionable insights, accelerating root cause analysis and troubleshooting for improved operational efficiency.

Public preview: Upgrade algorithm improvements in AKS

AKS upgrades currently fail when encountering a Pod drain failure. To improve upgrade efficiency, a new algorithm is being introduced. It allows you to configure upgrades so that if a node is blocked, AKS will use any available surge capacity to continue upgrading other nodes, labeling the blocked node as 'quarantined'. Failure error messages are updated to reflect the post-upgrade status accurately.

Cloud SQL Introduces Combined Private Services Access and Private Service Connect Support (Preview)

Cloud SQL now allows instances to be created with both private services access and Private Service Connect enabled. This capability is available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server instances, and can also be enabled for existing private services access instances. Currently in Preview, this feature enhances connectivity options for your database instances.

Cloud Run Jobs Now Support Task Timeouts Up to 7 Days (Preview)

Cloud Run jobs can now have task timeouts of up to 168 hours (7 days), providing greater flexibility for long-running tasks. This feature is currently in Preview.