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GCP – Google Cloud Marketplace simplifies deals and improves economics
Google Cloud Marketplace – a universal catalog of solutions from Google and our partners – is an integral part of how we go-to-market with our valued partner ecosystem. We are excited to expand Google Cloud Marketplace – most notably and recently, with AI Agent Marketplace, a new category that enables customers to easily discover, buy, […]
GCP – Simplify database fleet management with AI-powered Database Center, now GA
At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced the general availability of Database Center, an AI-powered unified fleet management solution that simplifies all aspects of database fleet management including monitoring, optimization, and security. Database Center replaces fragmented tools, complex scripts, APIs, and other error-prone workflows that companies use to monitor their database fleets, delivering an integrated […]
GCP – Introducing Cassandra-compatible APIs in Spanner for zero-code-change migration
You heard at Next ‘25 that native support for the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API in Spanner is available in preview, providing near-zero code-change application migration, along with a suite of complementary tools for zero-downtime data migration. Spanner is known for its robust SQL support, ACID transactions, and change data capture (CDC), provided as a […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2025 Release Update (RU)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. These RUs include bug and security fixes and are available for RDS for Oracle Standard Edition 2 and Enterprise Edition. Review the Oracle release notes for April RU for details. We recommend […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower introduces account-level reporting for baseline APIs
AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically view statuses for their governed accounts via baseline APIs. The AWS Control Tower baseline contains best practice configurations, controls, and resources required for governance. When you enable this baseline on an organizational unit (OU), member accounts within the OU will be enrolled under governance. With this new experience, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.09 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.40) is now generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL – Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.40 through Aurora MySQL v3.09. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.40 contains enhancements that improve database availability when handling large number of tables and reduce InnoDB issues related to redo logging, and index handling. […]
AWS – AWS HealthOmics now supports output mapping files for CWL workflows
Today, AWS HealthOmics announces enhancements to its Common Workflow Language (CWL) support by automatically generating comprehensive outputs.json mapping files for every workflow run. With this launch, HealthOmics now provides researchers and bioinformaticians with a complete catalog of all outputs generated by workflow runs along with their precise locations in Amazon S3. AWS HealthOmics is a […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports cross-region inference
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables customers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS regions. Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to help detect and block harmful content and prompt attacks, define topics to deny and disallow specific topics, and helps redact personally identifiable information […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2025 Spatial Patch Bundle
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Spatial Patch Bundle (SPB) for the April 2025 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c. This update delivers important fixes for Oracle Spatial and Graph functionality, helping ensure reliable and optimal performance for your spatial operations. You can now create new DB instances […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) with dual-stack AWS PrivateLink interface Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) endpoints. This enhancement extends IPv6 compatibility, previously available only for public endpoints, to VPC endpoints across all AWS Regions. Dual-stack endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information […]