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Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available on Azure Virtual Desktop
Deploy Windows 11 desktops and applications on Azure Virtual Desktop and utilize new capabilities while optimizing for cost. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet a way to easily migrate Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations across instance types
Using Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Fleet, you can easily migrate your reserved Amazon EC2 capacity to new generation instance types. Capacity Reservations allow you to reserve capacity for your immediate use in a specific instance type and Availability Zone and can be cancelled by you at any time. With Capacity Reservation Fleet, you can reserve […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family customers can now use Amazon S3 Access Point aliases for granular and simplified data access controls
AWS Transfer Family now supports Amazon S3 Access Points, a feature of Amazon S3 that allows you to easily manage granular access to shared data sets. Now, you can use S3 Access Point aliases anywhere an S3 bucket name is used today for shared datasets that are utilized by hundreds of SFTP, FTP, and FTPS […]

AWS – RDS Performance Insights now available in four more regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and […]

AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Backup Audit Manager now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies using AWS CloudFormation templates. You can now deploy AWS Backup Audit Manager’s pre-built, customizable controls using AWS CloudFormation templates and evaluate whether all your backups are in compliance with your policies. You can also […]

AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance reports
AWS Backup Audit Manager now allows you to generate reports to track the compliance of your defined data protection policies in AWS Backup. You can create a report plan in AWS Backup Audit Manager to deliver compliance reports in your designated Amazon S3 bucket. You can use these reports to identify violations of your data protection […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) announces support for Cross-Cluster Replication
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now supports cross-cluster replication, enabling you to automate copying and synchronizing of indices from one domain to another at low latency in same or different AWS accounts or Regions. With cross-cluster replication, you can achieve high availability for your mission critical applications with sequential data consistency. Read […]

AWS – Amazon Braket offers D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 system for quantum annealing
You can now access D-Wave’s Advantage 4.1 quantum annealing system on Amazon Braket, the AWS quantum computing service. According to D-Wave, the new Advantage quantum processing unit (QPU) has more than 5,000 active qubits with 15-way connectivity to enable researchers and developers to explore larger and more complex quantum optimization problems. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon Location Service adds change detection to tracking
Today, Amazon Location Service is adding distance-based filtering of device position updates. Read More for the details.
GCP – Standing out to customers through the Partner Differentiation journey
Differentiation brings great customer experiences and repeatable business Customers are looking for best-in-class, highly skilled experts that can serve as a trusted advisor through their transformation. Finding the right partner, at the right time, in the right location, with proven skills and experience is the secret to a high impact innovation journey. The Google Cloud […]