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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2024 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2024 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. To learn more about Oracle RUs supported on Amazon RDS for each engine version, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, […]
GCP – Continuous Delivery on Google Cloud with Gitlab CI/CD and Cloud Deploy
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a set of practices and principles that enables teams to deliver software quickly and reliably by automating the entire software release process using a pipeline. In this article, we explain how to create a Continuous Delivery pipeline to automate software delivery from code commit to production release on Cloud Run using […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone achieves PCI DSS Certification
Amazon DataZone has obtained the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance certification, demonstrating that it meets requirements established by the PCI Security Standards Council for handling payment account data securely, as required by financial and insurance industry customers handling credit card payments. The certification includes the 2024 PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) assessment […]
AWS – AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions across Europe and Asia
AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions – Europe(Frankfurt), Europe(Ireland), Asia Pacific(Singapore) and Asia Pacific(Tokyo). Adding new regional support allows customers with low-latency payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without relying on cross-region support. Customers using AWS Payment Cryptography can simplify cryptography operations in their payment applications […]
AWS – Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in six additional regions
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. For volumes that are created from snapshots, the storage blocks must be pulled down from Amazon S3 and written to the volume before you can […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches the ability to configure when whisper flows are used
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to configure when whisper flows are used during a contact to optimize flow performance. A whisper flow is what a customer or agent experiences during the moment when they are connected to each other in a voice or chat conversation. With this launch, you can turn off whisper flows, […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) expands DMS homogeneous data migrations feature to 29 AWS regions
In June 2023, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) launched a homogeneous data migration feature to simplify and accelerate like-to-like migrations to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora. Today, we are pleased to announce that the DMS homogeneous data migrations feature is now made generally available in 29 AWS regions (includes 9 AWS […]
AWS – Announcing purchase order support for AWS Data Exchange private offers
Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to AWS Data exchange private offers, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order number. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. AWS Marketplace transaction purchase orders will allow the purchase order number that a customer […]
GCP – Simplifying VM deployments on Google Cloud Marketplace with a Terraform-based UI
Many organizations use Terraform as an Infrastructure-as-Code tool for their cloud migration and modernization journeys. In a previous blog, we shared that you can use Terraform to deploy VM instances from Google Cloud Marketplace, making it easier to discover, procure and deploy enterprise-grade cloud solutions for your organization. Today we are excited to share a […]
GCP – Bigtable transforms the developer experience with SQL support
Bigtable is a fast, flexible, NoSQL database that powers core Google services such as Search, Ads, and YouTube, as well as critical applications for customers such as PLAID and Mercari. Today, we’re announcing Bigtable support for GoogleSQL, an ANSI-compliant SQL dialect used by Google products such as Spanner and BigQuery. Now you can use the […]