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GCP – Databricks on Google Cloud: an open integrated platform for data, analytics and machine learning
Google Cloud and Databricks share a common vision of open source, open data platforms, and an open cloud. With this shared philosophy, Google Cloud is delighted to announce our partnership with Databricks to bring their data analytics and machine learning solutions to Google Cloud. The partnership enables customers to accelerate Databricks implementations by simplifying their […]

GCP – Introducing Django ORM Support for Cloud Spanner
Today we’re happy to announce beta support for Google Cloud Spanner in the Django ORM. The django-google-spanner package is a third-party database backend for Cloud Spanner, powered by the Cloud Spanner Python client library. The Django ORM is a powerful standalone component of the Django web framework that maps Python objects to relational data. It […]

Azure – Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 release is now generally available
Azure IoT Edge 1.1.0 is our first long term servicing (LTS) release. Read More for the details.

Azure – .NET Core support for Analysis Services client libraries is generally available
Today, we are announcing general availability (GA) of Analysis Services client libraries for .NET Core, along with several enhancements. Read More for the details.

Azure – US Gov Virginia Availability Zones now generally available
Availability Zones are now generally available from the US Gov Virginia datacenter region, offering US government customers more options for their most demanding mission-critical applications. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Graviton2 based M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are now available in EU (Stockholm) region, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances are now available in US West (Northern California), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in EU (Stockholm) region. Additionally, Amazon EC2 M6gd, C6gd and R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are now available in US West (Northern California), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Config now supports the ability to save advanced queries in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Config advanced queries feature now supports the ability to save your queries in your AWS Config account in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Now, when you customize a sample query or write your query, you can save it with a name, description, and tags. This reduces the need to save a query in a separate […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports region transfer for AWS Elemental Link
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports the ability to transfer your AWS Elemental Link device from one service region to another. You can transfer the device to any region that supports MediaLive. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Elemental Link now available in Europe (Paris) region
AWS Elemental Link is now available in the Europe (Paris) region. Using Link, you can now ingest your high-quality video in the AWS Cloud in more locations globally. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fargate increases default resource count service quotas to 1000
AWS Fargate recently increased default service quotas to 500 and starting today you can launch up to 1000 concurrent Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods running on Fargate On-Demand and 1000 concurrent Amazon ECS tasks running on Fargate Spot. These are default quotas (also commonly known as limits) […]