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GCP – How LiveRamp scales identity data management in the cloud
Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Sagar Batchu, Director of Engineering at LiveRamp. He shares how Google Cloud helped LiveRamp modernize its data analytics infrastructure to simplify its operations, lower support and infrastructure costs and enable its customers to connect, control, and activate customer data safely and securely. LiveRamp is a data connectivity platform that […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune announces support for SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol
Amazon Neptune announces support for SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol (GSP) for graphs using W3C’s Resource Description Framework (RDF). Using GSP on SPARQL 1.1 endpoints, customers now have an efficient method to interact with complete named graphs within a graph store. This can streamline building graph applications using Amazon Neptune and tools that support […]

GCP – Introducing Cloud Build private pools: Secure CI/CD for private networks
A recent survey found that developers spend 39% of their time managing the DevOps infrastructure that powers their continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines. Unreliable availability, manual provisioning, limited scaling, breaking upgrades, long queue times, and high fixed costs all slow down development and take valuable time and focus away from DevOps teams. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Europe (London) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Europe (London) region. Read More for the details.

GCP – SAP and Google Cloud: The next chapter begins
The partnership between Google Cloud and SAP is entering a new chapter. Over the years, our close partnership with SAP and our mutual dedication to customers has inspired us to do some of our most unique and innovative work—such as building Fast Restart and Memory Poisoning Recovery capabilities for S/4HANA workloads, offering real-time access to […]

GCP – Announcing the Blue and Raman subsea cable systems
Today, we’re announcing that we are collaborating with Sparkle and others to build and operate two submarine cable systems linking the Middle East with southern Europe and Asia: the Blue Submarine Cable System connecting Italy, France, Greece, and Israel; and the Raman Submarine Cable System connecting Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Oman and India. Developing additional […]

Azure – Azure Sphere SDK version 21.07 Update 1 is now available
This SDK update fixes a bug in the 21.07 SDK that was released earlier this month. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS DataSync is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS DataSync is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. DataSync can copy data between Network File System (NFS) shares, Server Message Block (SMB) shares, self-managed object storage, AWS Snowcone, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, and Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file […]

AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet. You can create DAX clusters in this AWS Region for your DynamoDB applications that require microsecond response times. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB global tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon DynamoDB global tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. With global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to a DynamoDB table for fast read and write performance. You also can use global tables to replicate DynamoDB table data to additional AWS Regions for higher availability and disaster […]