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GCP – Helping you pick the greenest region for your Google Cloud resources
As a Google Cloud customer, your carbon footprint is already carbon neutral: Google first achieved carbon neutrality in 2007, and has been purchasing enough solar and wind energy to match 100% of its global electricity consumption since 2017. Now, Google is targeting a new sustainability goal: operating on carbon-free energy (CFE) 24/7, everywhere, by 2030. […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports VPC endpoints
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports customer endpoints in VPCs. With this feature, your IoT devices and applications can communicate with IoT Core for LoRaWAN from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without the need to allow traffic from the VPC to public IP addresses. VPC endpoints are powered by AWS PrivateLink, an AWS technology […]

AWS – NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now helps you run frequent operations more easily to modify and access table data
NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB, a client-side tool that helps you design, visualize, and query nonrelational data models by using a point-and-click interface, now helps you run frequent data-plane operations more easily to modify and access table data. Now, you can save or bookmark as many as 50 DynamoDB data-plane operations in the NoSQL Workbench operation builder. Read More for […]

Azure – General availability: Azure API Management updates – July 2021
Azure API Management service has been updated to provide better support to customers through policy expressions and Power platform. Read More for the details.

AWS – The Amazon Redshift Data API is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
You can now use the Amazon Redshift Data API in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region to access Amazon Redshift. The Redshift Data API simplifies data access, ingest, and egress from languages supported with the AWS SDK such as Python, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and C++. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing general availability of Google Cloud CA Service
We are happy to announce the general availability of Certificate Authority Service offered by Google Cloud (Google Cloud CAS). Google Cloud CAS provides a highly scalable and available private CA to address the unprecedented growth in certificates in the digital world. This exponential growth is due to a perfect storm of conditions over the past […]

AWS – AWS Cloud Map supports configuring negative caching for DNS queries
AWS Cloud Map now provides the ability to configure the negative caching for DNS queries. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service that allows customers to define custom names for their application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or any other […]

GCP – DeNA Sports Business: Combating COVID-19 by analyzing device data with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Makoto Kimura, General Manager System Dept. Sports Business Div; and Yusuke Muto, Software Engineer System Dept. Sports Business Div at DeNA Sports. They share how Google Cloud has helped them to keep their events going while also keeping their visitors safe during the pandemic. The pandemic is forcing the […]

AWS – Amplify Flutter now supports Null Safety
Today, we’re announcing that we have updated AWS Amplify’s tools and libraries for Flutter to support null safety for all of our use cases. Flutter developers can now enjoy all the easy-to-integrate Amplify functionality with higher reliability and improved developer ergonomics. Sound null safety is a Dart language feature in which code is non-nullable by […]
AWS – AWS AppSync Now Available in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Starting today, AWS AppSync is available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Read More for the details.