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AWS – Amazon DataZone achieves PCI DSS Certification
Amazon DataZone has obtained the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance certification, demonstrating that it meets requirements established by the PCI Security Standards Council for handling payment account data securely, as required by financial and insurance industry customers handling credit card payments. The certification includes the 2024 PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) assessment […]
AWS – AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions across Europe and Asia
AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in four new regions – Europe(Frankfurt), Europe(Ireland), Asia Pacific(Singapore) and Asia Pacific(Tokyo). Adding new regional support allows customers with low-latency payment applications to build, deploy or migrate into additional AWS Regions without relying on cross-region support. Customers using AWS Payment Cryptography can simplify cryptography operations in their payment applications […]
AWS – Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in six additional regions
Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. For volumes that are created from snapshots, the storage blocks must be pulled down from Amazon S3 and written to the volume before you can […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches the ability to configure when whisper flows are used
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to configure when whisper flows are used during a contact to optimize flow performance. A whisper flow is what a customer or agent experiences during the moment when they are connected to each other in a voice or chat conversation. With this launch, you can turn off whisper flows, […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) expands DMS homogeneous data migrations feature to 29 AWS regions
In June 2023, AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) launched a homogeneous data migration feature to simplify and accelerate like-to-like migrations to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora. Today, we are pleased to announce that the DMS homogeneous data migrations feature is now made generally available in 29 AWS regions (includes 9 AWS […]
AWS – Announcing purchase order support for AWS Data Exchange private offers
Today, AWS Marketplace is extending transaction purchase order support to AWS Data exchange private offers, giving customers the ability to ensure their invoices reflect the proper purchase order number. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. AWS Marketplace transaction purchase orders will allow the purchase order number that a customer […]
GCP – Simplifying VM deployments on Google Cloud Marketplace with a Terraform-based UI
Many organizations use Terraform as an Infrastructure-as-Code tool for their cloud migration and modernization journeys. In a previous blog, we shared that you can use Terraform to deploy VM instances from Google Cloud Marketplace, making it easier to discover, procure and deploy enterprise-grade cloud solutions for your organization. Today we are excited to share a […]
GCP – Bigtable transforms the developer experience with SQL support
Bigtable is a fast, flexible, NoSQL database that powers core Google services such as Search, Ads, and YouTube, as well as critical applications for customers such as PLAID and Mercari. Today, we’re announcing Bigtable support for GoogleSQL, an ANSI-compliant SQL dialect used by Google products such as Spanner and BigQuery. Now you can use the […]
GCP – Build large-scale AI/ML and HPC clusters with Cluster Toolkit (formerly HPC Toolkit)
The Cloud HPC Toolkit, now rebranded as Cluster Toolkit, simplifies the creation and management of high performance computing environments on Google Cloud. Initially focused on scientific and technical computing workloads, it has expanded to encompass AI/ML applications, reflecting its widespread adoption across various domains. The Cluster Toolkit empowers users to focus on their workloads by […]
GCP – Accelerate PostgreSQL migrations to Google Cloud: move terabytes of data with Database Migration Service
For anyone bringing new workloads to Google Cloud, Database Migration Service (DMS) offers a comprehensive way to migrate your data, simplifying the process of transfering your data to various Google Cloud databases. Some of the major offerings of DMS include continuous migrations from MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server into Cloud SQL and from PostgreSQL to […]