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AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Nashville and Tampa
Today, we are announcing the availability of two new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Nashville, TN and Tampa, FL. Wavelength Zones are now available in 19 major cities in the US, including the previously announced cities of Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, […]

AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Seoul
Today, we are announcing the availability of a new AWS Wavelength Zone on SK Telecom’s 5G network in Seoul. Wavelength Zones are now available in 2 locations in South Korea, including the previously announced Wavelength Zone in Daejeon. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: JavaScript and Python support in Azure SQL bindings
You can connect Azure SQL to Azure Functions more easily with input and output bindings, now available in public preview for C#, JavaScript, and Python. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available Azure Ebsv5 now available in 13 additional regions
Azure Virtual Machines Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 are now available in 13 additional regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT Device Management increases Active Jobs Limit to 100k per AWS account per region
We’re excited to announce that AWS IoT Device Management customers will now be able to create up to 100,000 Active Jobs per AWS account per region. The prior limit was 1,000 Active Jobs per AWS account per region. This new limit will apply to the total number of Jobs created – both continuous and snapshot […]

GCP – Announcing Quick Start Widget to integrate API key generation into your onboarding
Many developers use content management systems, plugins, and other software solutions to create websites and apps. Until now, adding mapping functionality to those experiences was a disjointed process that caused many users to quit before ever adding a map to their project. Today we’re announcing Quick Start Widget to help developers make it easier for […]

GCP – Introducing high-performance Confidential Computing with N2D and C2D VMs
We’re excited to announce Confidential Computing on the latest Google Compute Engine N2D and C2D Virtual Machines. At Google Cloud, we’re constantly striving to deliver performance improvements and feature enhancements. Last November, we announced the general availability of general-purpose N2D machine types running on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. Then, in February, we announced the […]

GCP – Cloud on Spain’s terms: New Google Cloud region in Madrid now open
We’re continuing to expand our global footprint — and we’re doing it rapidly. In 2020, we announced our plans to launch a new cloud region to help accelerate the economic recovery and growth of Spain. Today, we’re excited to announce that our new Google Cloud region in Madrid is officially open. Designed to help meet […]

Azure – Public preview: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Autoscaling allows you to define the minimum and maximum streaming units. Stream Analytics will automatically take care of dynamically optimizing the number of streaming units needed for your workload. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 enables customers to protect instances from unintentional stop actions
Today, Amazon EC2 announced the Stop Protection feature that enables customers to protect their instances from accidental stop actions. Previously, customers could protect their instances from unintentional terminate actions by enabling Termination Protection. With Stop Protection, customers with stateful workloads can safeguard data in instance store volume(s) from unintentional stop and terminate actions. Read More […]