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Amazon Athena is now available in Europe (Ireland)

Amazon Athena is now available in the Europe (Ireland) region.
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
With the latest release customers can now use Amazon Athena in the following regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland). To learn more, please visit the Amazon Athena page.
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Easily recognize famous individuals and celebrities using Amazon Rekognition

You can now use Amazon Rekognition to detect and recognize hundreds of thousands of individuals who are famous, noteworthy, or prominent in their field, from movies, television, politics, business, and sports. The Celebrity Recognition feature allows you to index and quickly search digital image libraries for celebrities based on your particular interest. Just as with other Amazon Rekognition APIs, the RecognizeCelebrities API is integrated with Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda, to process hundreds of millions of images per day, whether it be on-demand, in batch, or in near real-time. The RecognizeCelebrities API provides the name and unique identifier of the celebrity, along with a confidence score, and a link to additional information, for example, the celebrity’s IMDB link.
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Amazon SQS FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing are Now Available in the EU (Ireland) Region

You can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) First-in, First-out (FIFO) queues in the EU (Ireland) region. FIFO queues are designed to ensure that the order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved and that each message is processed exactly once. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Building applications from individual components that each perform a discrete function improves scalability and reliability. Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be always available.
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Running OpenBSD on Azure

As you know, Microsoft has officially supported FreeBSD virtual machine (VM) running on Azure since 2014 and last year Microsoft announced the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image in the Azure Marketplace.  Now if you go to Azure Marketplace, you also will see FreeBSD 11 VM and pfsense offering there too.

Today we are happy to share you that Azure supports OpenBSD 6.1 with the collaboration effort from Esdenera and Microsoft. Meanwhile Esdenera brings their firewall product based on OpenBSD on board Azure Marketplace now.

What is OpenBSD?

The OpenBSD project produces a freely available, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. The goals place emphasis on correctness, security, standardization, and portability.

OpenBSD is thought of as the most secure UNIX-like operating system by many security professionals, as a result of the never-ending comprehensive source code audit.
OpenBSD is a full-featured UNIX-like operating system available in source and binary form at no charge.
OpenBSD integrates cutting-edge security technology suitable for building firewalls and private network services in a distributed environment.
OpenBSD benefits from strong ongoing development in many areas, offering opportunities to work with emerging technologies and an international community of developers and end users.

How to bring your own OpenBSD to Azure?

You can follow the guidance to prepare your custom OpenBSD image, convert virtual hard disk to the fixed VHD format, upload it to Azure storage and create a virtual machine from uploaded VHD.

Latest Azure Agent added the support of OpenBSD which contributed by Esdenera. Next release will be v2.2.13.

Do you want to use OpenBSD based Virtual Appliance on Azure?

The Esdenera Firewall 3 is a professional network appliance that has been built for Enterprise networks, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and remote access solutions. It is built upon Esdenera’s TNOS network operating system, an OpenBSD-based platform developed for Esdenera’s OEM customers.
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