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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 […]

GCP – Supporting the next generation of Startups
At Google Cloud, we’re committed to helping organizations at every stage of their journey build with cloud technology, infrastructure, and solutions. For startups, the cloud provides a critical foundation for the future, and can help early-stage businesses not only spin up key services quickly, but also prepare for the bursts of growth they will experience […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports Event notifications
You can now sign up to receive event notifications on your Amazon Neptune DB clusters, DB instances, DB cluster snapshots, parameter groups, or security groups. Whenever certain events occur, event notifications can be sent in any notification form supported by the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) for an AWS Region, such as an email, a […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces automatic refresh and query rewrite for materialized views
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports automatic refresh and query rewrite capabilities to simplify and automate the usage of materialized views. The automatic refresh feature helps administrators to keep materialized views up-to-date, while the automatic query rewrite feature enables end-users to easily benefit from improved query performance. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting is now generally available in the Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions
AWS Amplify offers a fully managed static web hosting service that accelerates your application release cycle by providing a simple CI/CD workflow for building and deploying full-stack static web applications. Simply connect your application’s code repository in the console, and changes to your frontend and backend are deployed in a single workflow on every code […]

AWS – AWS Elemental Link adds features and service regions
Today we introduced several new features for AWS Elemental Link along with expanded region availability. Link devices can now ingest video into all regions where AWS Elemental MediaLive is supported. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing AWS Gateway Load Balancer
Today AWS announced the availability of AWS Gateway Load Balancer, a new service that helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual network appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, analytics, visibility and others. An addition to the Elastic Load Balancer family, AWS Gateway Load Balancer combines a transparent network gateway (that is, […]

AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2020.2 with new session manager and performance enhancements for high frame rate interactive workloads
We are pleased to announce the release of NICE DCV version 2020.2 with the following new features: DCV Session Manager – It is an optional component that provides REST APIs to create and manage the lifecycle of a session across a fleet of DCV servers. It is available at no cost for AWS customers running DCV […]
AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Dallas and Miami
Today, we are announcing the availability of two new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Dallas and Miami. Wavelength Zones are now available in seven cities, including the five previously announced cities of Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Washington DC, and Atlanta. Read More for the details.