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AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
AWS IoT Core Device Advisor, a fully managed cloud-based test capability for validating IoT devices, is now generally available in us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, and ap-northeast-1 regions. Now, developers can use pre-built tests provided by Device Advisor to validate that their IoT devices implement best practices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core. Device […]

AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3
Today, we are pleased to announce that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports exporting Amazon EBS volume and AWS Lambda function memory size recommendations as csv files to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Key Vault SLA raised to 99.99%
Key Vault is now being offered at a 99.99% availability SLA, an improvement over our previous 99.9% SLA. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Maps Platform Announcements from Google I/O 2021
Earlier today, the first ever virtual Google I/O developer conference kicked off, welcoming developers from all over the globe to learn, share, and hear announcements from across Google. Today, we’re excited to recap the latest news about Google Maps Platform, fresh from the developer keynote. WebGL-powered maps features beta release As part of Cloud-based maps […]

GCP – Google Cloud unveils Vertex AI, one platform, every ML tool you need
Today at Google I/O, we announced the general availability of Vertex AI, a managed machine learning (ML) platform that allows companies to accelerate the deployment and maintenance of artificial intelligence (AI) models. Vertex AI requires nearly 80% fewer lines of code to train a model versus competitive platforms1, enabling data scientists and ML engineers across […]

Azure – Azure Stream Analytics: 5 new regions are now generally available
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, real-time analytics service designed to help you analyze and process fast moving streams of data that can be used to get insights, build reports, or trigger alerts and actions. The service is now available in 5 new regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Health Bot adds new regions and languages for it’s systems checker
Azure Health Bot’s new regions empower customers to build critical business applications by hosting database in the same region as the application stack and close to customers for better performance. Read More for the details.

GCP – With new geothermal project, it’s full steam ahead for 24/7 carbon-free energy
When Google announced our plan to go beyond purchasing renewable power for 100% of our energy usage and operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030, we noted that achieving this goal will require new transaction structures, advancements in clean energy policy, and innovative new technologies. Today, we’re pleased to announce that one of these new […]

AWS – Announcing general availability of AWS Application Migration Service
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN), a new service that enables organizations to move applications to AWS without making changes to the applications, their architecture, or the migrated servers. AWS Application Migration Service is the primary migration service recommended for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. Customers currently […]
AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting announces server-side rendering (SSR) support for Next.js web apps
AWS Amplify Hosting now supports deploying and hosting server-side rendered (SSR) apps built with the Next.js framework with zero configuration. Frontend developers can now leverage all of Amplify Hosting’s CI/CD and hosting capabilities for deploying SSR apps. Next.js is a React framework that combines build-time static site generation (SSG) and dynamic server-side rendering (SSR) to […]