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GCP – Google Cloud Partner Consumption Packs accelerate customer journeys to the cloud
When we launched Partner Advantage, we committed to making it predictable and easy for partners to drive business with us. Since launch, those commitments have been validated by channel experts like CRN, which gave Partner Advantage a 5-Star award for 2022, and by the fact that our partners have seen impressive growth* across virtually every […]

GCP – Deutsche Börse Group achieves greater agility and scale with SAP on Google Cloud
Digitization is heavily transforming the Financial Services Industry. All players are facing the challenge of reacting to new trends while also having the possibility to actively shape them. This proves to be particularly relevant for exchange organizations: At a time when investors expect faster, more advanced and secure platforms, IT leaders in the financial industry […]

GCP – Climate scientist monitors Canada’s leaf canopy with Google Earth Engine on Google Cloud
Climate scientists face a deluge of environmental data to analyze and interpret from real-time sensors and satellites across the globe. The stakes are as high as our planet’s long-term future, but rapidly changing conditions are already impacting communities through extreme events like floods and wildfires as well as management of everyday resources. In this context, […]

AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now helps you read and write data in Apache Spark more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now helps you read and write data in Apache Spark more easily by using the open-source Spark Cassandra Connector. Read More for the details.

AWS – The next generation of FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS regions
The next generation of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems is now available in three additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Europe (London). Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Corretto announces quarterly updates
On April 19th, 2022 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 18.0.1, 17.0.3, 11.0.15, and 8u332 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions
You can now launch Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in three additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS DataSync is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. DataSync can copy data to and from Network File System (NFS) shares, Server Message Block (SMB) shares, self-managed object storage, Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), AWS Snowcone, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, Amazon […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces new enhancements for Audit Logging
Amazon Redshift now offers new enhancements for Audit Logging, which enables faster delivery of logs for analysis by minimizing latency while also adding Amazon CloudWatch as a new log destination. With this release, customers can choose to stream audit logs directly to Amazon CloudWatch, which enables customers to perform real-time monitoring. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon Polly Launches a new Austrian German Neural Text-to-Speech voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Hannah, a new Austrian German Neural voice. Read More for the details.