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AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports AWS CloudFormation
You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to quickly deploy solutions that use Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems. Read More for the details.

GCP – Scale your Ruby applications with Active Record support for Cloud Spanner
We’re very excited to announce the general availability of the Ruby Active Record Adapter for Google Cloud Spanner. Ruby Active Record is a powerful Object-Relational Mapping(ORM) library bundled with Ruby on Rails. Active Record provides an abstraction over the underlying database, and includes capabilities such as automatically generating schema changes and managing schema version history. […]

AWS – Amazon FinSpace is now in scope for SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 compliance
You can now use Amazon FinSpace in applications that are subject to System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliance. AWS SOC reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. You can download the AWS SOC reports in AWS Artifact. To learn more, visit AWS Compliance Programs, or you […]

GCP – Supporting digital ownership and decentralization with Dapper Labs and Google Cloud
Businesses, developers and end-users are increasingly embracing blockchain applications. The benefits and opportunities that decentralized technologies offer are becoming evident: true digital ownership and emerging markets of digital goods powered by transparent, reliable, and verifiable transactions. At the very heart of this ongoing mass adoption are networks like Flow – a consumer-friendly, high-throughput blockchain that […]

GCP – Google Cloud Spanner Dialect for SQLAlchemy
We’re very excited to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Spanner dialect that enables SQLAlchemy applications to take advantage of Cloud Spanner‘s scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability. SQLAlchemy is a Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper, giving application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL. Its object-relational mapper […]

GCP – Leading with Google Cloud & Partners to modernize infrastructure in manufacturing
In the manufacturing sector, flexibility and stability are crucial to delivering business outcomes. In a dynamic and unpredictable world, however, manufacturers must constantly contend with forces that can disrupt supply chains and cause instability. Mitigating against challenges like these are part of life for manufacturers. This is why many of them implement highly sophisticated management […]

AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Lex now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to create bots and organize Amazon Lex resources using CloudFormation stack templates. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With CloudFormation support, you can easily model resources on Lex V2 APIs – namely Bot, BotVersion, BotAlias, and ResourcePolicy – to […]

GCP – How Pub/Sub eliminates boring meetings and makes your systems scale
So, you’ve said goodbye to the monolithic application and refactored it into services. You are shipping faster and the code is cleaner. But the complexity of communication between the services is causing performance issues. And every time a new team needs to integrate, it’s a whole lot of meetings. The time has come to consider […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 updates API actions
Amazon Route 53 is adding domain specific API actions: DeleteDomain and ListPrices. Sorting and filtering functions are also being added to the API action, ListDomains. The DeleteDomain API action is a function previously only available in the AWS Console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP reduces minimum file system throughput capacity to 128 MB/s
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP has now reduced the minimum file system throughput capacity from 512 MB/s to 128 MB/s, decreasing the minimum cost of an FSx for ONTAP file system by over 50%. Read More for the details.