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AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window for Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources
AWS Lambda now supports Max Batching Window, a new feature that allows developers to fine tune Lambda invocation for cost optimization. This feature gives you additional control on batching behavior when processing data from Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon MQ for Apache Active MQ and RabbitMQ as event sources. Read More for the details.

AWS – Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 customers can now use ED25519 keys for authentication with EC2 Instance Connect
Starting today, AWS customers can use ED25519 keys to prove their identity when connecting to EC2 instances using EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial Console from the command line interface. Read More for the details.

GCP – Developing and securing a platform for healthcare innovation with Google Cloud
In an industry as highly regulated as healthcare, building a single secure and compliant application that tracks patient care and appointments at a clinic requires a great deal of planning from development and security teams. So, imagine what it would be like to build a solution that includes almost everything related to a patient’s healthcare, […]

GCP – How to publish applications to our users globally with Cloud DNS Routing policies?
When building applications that are critical to your business, one key consideration is always high availability. In Google Cloud, we recommend building your strategic applications on a multi-regional architecture. In this article, we will see how Cloud DNS routing policies can help simplify your multi-regional design. As an example, let’s take a web application that […]

GCP – Encrypt Data Fusion data and metadata using Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) integration for Cloud Data Fusion. CMEK enables encryption of both user data and metadata at rest with a key that you can control through Cloud Key Management Service (KMS). This capability will help meet the security, privacy and compliance requirements of […]

GCP – Data Fusion SAP Connectors
Businesses today have a growing demand for data analysis and insight-based action. More often than not, the valuable data driving these actions is in mission critical operational systems. Among all the applications that are in the market today, SAP is the leading provider of ERP software and Google Cloud is introducing integration with SAP to […]

GCP – Data Fusion SAP accelerator for Procure 2 Pay
Earlier this year, we announced SAP Integration with Cloud Data Fusion, Google Cloud’s native data integration platform to seamlessly move data out of SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP, and S4/HANA. This was followed by the release of our accelerator for SAP Order to Cash which simplifies integrating SAP Order to Cash data into BigQuery and […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in Asia Pacific (Osaka) now offers export of snapshot data to Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format, an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics. The Parquet format is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to text formats. The […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor and alarm on performance and storage usage metrics for your file systems and volumes. Read More for the details.