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AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Amazon Managed Services (AMS) now supports the AWS Europe (Paris) region. You can use AMS to monitor the operations of your account, including incident management, problem management, patch management, and security management for your AWS resources. In addition to operating AWS services, AMS provides a secure AWS Landing Zone, and features to help you meet […]

AWS – Amazon Polly launches a new Australian English neural text-to-speech voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Olivia, Polly’s first Australian English voice, available via Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS). Thanks to its unique vocal personality, the voice sounds expressive, natural and it is easy to follow. Amazon Polly customers can now enjoy […]

AWS – AWS Lambda now makes it easier to send logs to custom destinations
You can now send logs from AWS Lambda functions directly to a destination of your choice by using AWS Lambda Extensions. AWS Lambda Extensions are a new way for monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools to integrate with Lambda, and today, you can use extensions that send logs to the following providers: Datadog, New Relic, […]

GCP – Database Migration Service Connectivity – A technical introspective
Hopefully you’ve already heard about a new product we’ve released: Database Migration Service (DMS). If you haven’t, you should check out the announcement blog. TL;DR, the idea is to make migrating your databases reliably into a fully managed Cloud SQL instance as easy and secure as possible. I’ll be talking a lot about MySQL (available […]

Azure – Node.js 14 for Azure Functions is now available in public preview
Developers can now build and publish Azure Functions Apps using Node.js 14. Read More for the details.

Azure – New SAP HANA Certified Memory-Optimized Virtual Machines now available
We are expanding our SAP HANA certifications, enabling you to run production SAP HANA workloads on the Edsv4 virtual machines sizes. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports T3 and R5 instance types in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora now supports T3.large and medium instances as well as R5 class instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Using T3.large instances with Amazon Aurora is a cost-effective option for smaller workloads such as test, development, and QA, while still giving you the option to use larger class instances for production deployments. Read More for […]

GCP – Enhancing our privacy commitments to customers
Around the world, companies in every industry rely on our cloud services to run their businesses, and we take that responsibility seriously. That’s why we’re focused on providing industry-leading security and product capabilities, certifications, and commitments, along with transparency and visibility into when and how customer data is accessed. Today, we’re expanding on these commitments […]

GCP – Accelerating cloud migrations with the new Database Migration Service
Enterprises across all industries are answering the call to move their business infrastructure, and with that their databases, to the cloud. They are flocking to fully managed cloud databases like Cloud SQL to leverage their unparalleled reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness. Today, we’re launching the new serverless Database Migration Service (DMS) as part of our vision […]
GCP – Best practices for homogeneous database migrations
Migrating applications to Google Cloud is most effective when you’re migrating their backing database or databases to Google Cloud as well. The result is improved performance, lowered cost, and ease of management and operations. To make these migrations easier, we’ve announced the new Database Migration Service (DMS), an easy-to-use, serverless migration tool that provides minimal […]