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GCP – New Google Cloud innovations to unify your data cloud
Every company in every industry is on a journey to become more data-driven whether that’s providing great digital experiences to customers, or driving operational excellence through AI, or detecting hidden patterns in data to improve decision making. To help with this transformation, we are excited to announce new products and services designed to fully unify […]

GCP – Cloud Bigtable lifts SLA to 99.999% and adds new security features for regulated industries
Google Cloud database services provide a trusted platform for always-on applications with global reach and unlimited scale. Today, we are excited to announce that Bigtable joins Firestore and Cloud Spanner with an industry-leading 99.999% availability SLA. This new SLA builds on the new security features that we launched recently, Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) and Data […]

GCP – Understanding Cloud Spanner performance metrics at scale with Key Visualizer
Cloud Spanner is a distributed relational database that’s designed for consistency and availability at scale. Like Google’s best known products, organizations in financial services, retail, gaming, and many other industries also rely on Spanner for their most demanding “run-the-business” workloads. The development and operations (DevOps) teams running these applications need to understand how Spanner uses […]

GCP – Cloud Spanner trims entry cost by 90%, offers sharper observability and easier querying
Customers love Cloud Spanner because it gives them the benefits of relational semantics and SQL while also delivering the scale and availability of non-relational databases. Many of these customers want to move even more of their work to Spanner, and have requested smaller instance sizes to support development, testing and small production workloads. We’re happy […]

GCP – Unlock the power of change data capture and replication with new, serverless Datastream
Today, we’re announcing Datastream, a serverless change data capture (CDC) and replication service, available now in preview. Datastream allows enterprises to synchronize data across heterogeneous databases, storage systems, and applications reliably and with minimal latency to support real-time analytics, database replication, and event-driven architectures. You can now easily and seamlessly deliver change streams from Oracle […]

GCP – Dataflow Prime: bring unparalleled efficiency and radical simplicity to big data processing
The speed with which businesses are able to respond to change is the difference between those that successfully navigate the future and those that get left behind. Answering “What has happened” isn’t enough – businesses now need to know “What is happening now” and “What might happen”, and take proactive action in response. Addressing these […]

GCP – Introducing Dataplex – an intelligent data fabric for analytics at scale
Enterprises are struggling to make high quality data easily discoverable and accessible for analytics, across multiple silos, to a growing number of people and tools within their organization. They are often forced to make tradeoffs—to move and duplicate data across silos to enable diverse analytics use cases or leave their data distributed but limit the […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now expands its features with Marketo
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, expands its features with Marketo. Customers now can select Leads and Activities Objects in Marketo and move these into AWS Services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift or Amazon Lookout for Metrics. […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports PostgreSQL version 13 in preview mode
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for PostgreSQL version 13 in preview mode. Using AWS DMS, you can now perform live migrations from any AWS DMS supported sources to PostgreSQL 13 databases, and from PostgreSQL 13 databases to any AWS DMS supported targets. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.