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GCP – Introducing BigQuery metastore, a unified metadata service with Apache Iceberg support
Does your organization use multiple data processing engines like BigQuery, Apache Spark, Apache Flink and Apache Hive? Wouldn’t it be great if you could provide a single source of truth for all of your analytics workloads? Now you can, with the public preview of BigQuery metastore, a fully managed, unified metadata service that provides processing […]
GCP – Discover and assess your database workloads migration to Google Cloud using Migration Center
Organizations continue to adopt the public cloud to deliver better business and IT outcomes. However, migration — and modernization — is a complex, multifaceted challenge. It involves understanding the current state of infrastructure and applications to determine what the future state should look like and how to get there. And all this occurs across multiple […]
GCP – Announcing the 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK
According to the UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, the UK’s AI sector is rapidly expanding, with over 3,000 AI companies generating more than £10 billion in revenues, employing over 60,000 people, and contributing £5.8 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA). Google is committed to unlocking AI’s potential in the UK through initiatives that […]
AWS – Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports audio optimization for Citrix and Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops
Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports the ability to redirect audio from Citrix and Amazon WorkSpaces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments to a customer service agent’s local device. Audio redirection improves voice quality and reduces latency for voice calls handled on virtual desktops, providing a better experience for both end customers and agents. For region […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports R7g and R7i database instances in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances as well as R7i database instances are now available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement and up to 20% price/performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Amazon Aurora, depending on the […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge announces direct delivery to cross-account targets
Amazon EventBridge Event Bus now allows you to deliver events directly to AWS services in another account. This feature enables you to use multiple accounts to improve security and streamline business processes while reducing the overall cost and complexity of your architecture. Amazon EventBridge Event Bus is a serverless event broker that enables you to […]
AWS – Announcing high-throughput mode for Amazon SNS FIFO Topics
Amazon SNS now supports high-throughput mode for SNS FIFO topics, with default throughput matching SNS standard topics across all regions. When you enable high-throughput mode, SNS FIFO topics will maintain order within message group, while reducing the de-duplication scope to the message-group level. With this change, you can leverage up to 30K messages per second […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto January 2025 quarterly updates
On Jan 21, 2025 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 23.0.2, 21.0.6, 17.0.14, 11.0.26, 8u442 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Click on the Corretto home page to download Corretto 8, […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift introduces new SQL features for zero-ETL integrations
Today, Amazon Redshift announced the launch of three new SQL features for zero-ETL integrations: QUERY_ALL_STATES, TRUNCATECOLUMNS, and ACCEPTINVCHARS. Zero-ETL integrations enable you to break down data silos in your organization and run timely analytics and machine learning (ML) on the data from your databases. With the launch of these new features, Amazon Redshift further enhances […]
AWS – AWS Backup is now available in AWS Mexico (Central)
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Mexico (Central) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your data […]