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GCP – Migrate to regional backend services for Network Load Balancing
With Network Load Balancing, Google Cloud customers have a powerful tool for distributing external TCP and UDP traffic among virtual machines in a Google Cloud region. In order to make it easier for our customers to manage incoming traffic and to control how the load balancer behaves, we recently added support for backend services to […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database supports managed planned failover
An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. With today’s launch, you can seamlessly change your global cluster’s primary AWS Region, the region that serves writes, while preserving the replication between all regions in the […]

AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now supports tags on additional resources
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now allows administrators to use tags to manage and secure access to Customer Managed Policies, Instance Profiles, OpenID Connect Providers, SAML Providers, Server Certificates, and Virtual MFAs. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now allows you to configure the size of the dataset when auto-generating data quality statistics
When running profile jobs in AWS Glue DataBrew to auto-generate 40+ data quality statistics like column-level cardinality, numerical correlations, unique values, standard deviation, and other statistics, you can now configure the size of the dataset you want analyzed. This allows you to customize your profile to run on x% of the dataset for really large […]

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew supports transformations for seven additional datatypes
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports seven additional numeric data types including Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float, Double, and Decimal. Customers can now cast columns in these in addition to Timestamp and Date data types. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney)
Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney) regions. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo […]

Azure – New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region, East US 3, to Georgia, including Availability Zones. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB
Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSM
You can now access AWS CloudHSM service APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure and provide reliable connectivity to AWS CloudHSM service APIs without requiring an internet gateway or a Network Address Translation (NAT) instance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Azure Government further validates security and compliance for Azure Databricks. Read More for the details.