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AWS – AWS Transform for VMware is now generally available
At re:Invent 2024, AWS introduced the preview of Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for VMware. That innovation has evolved into AWS Transform for VMware—a first-of-its-kind agentic AI service that’s now generally available. Powered by large language models, graph neural networks, and the deep experience of AWS in enterprise workload migrations, AWS Transform simplifies VMware modernization […]
AWS – Announcing migration assessment capabilities of AWS Transform
Today, AWS announces the general availability of migration assessment capabilities in AWS Transform. Migration assessment in AWS Transform analyzes your IT environment to simplify and optimize your cloud journey with intelligent, data-driven insights and actionable recommendations. Simply upload your infrastructure data and AWS Transform will deliver a comprehensive analysis that typically takes weeks in just […]
AWS – AWS Transform for mainframe is now generally available
AWS Transform for mainframe, previewed as “Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for mainframe” at re:Invent 2024, is now generally available. AWS Transform is the first agentic AI service for modernizing mainframe applications at scale—accelerating modernization of IBM z/OS applications from years to months. Powered by a specialized AI agent leveraging 19 years of AWS experience, […]
AWS – AWS Transform for .NET is now generally available
AWS Transform for .NET, previewed as “Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET porting,” is now generally available. As the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale, AWS Transform helps you to modernize Windows .NET applications to be Linux-ready up to four times faster than traditional methods and realize up to 40% […]
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. […]