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AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro
AWS Local Zones are now available in three new metro areas—Lagos, Lima, and Querétaro. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now supports optimized pricing estimation for EC2 Dedicated Hosts
Windows Server and SQL Server on Amazon EC2 calculator now supports Dedicated Hosts price estimation. With this feature, you can now generate optimized price estimate for bring-your-own-license (BYOL) scenarios on Dedicated Hosts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available
Now generally available, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch Serverless streamlines the process of running petabyte-scale search and analytics workloads without having to configure, manage, or scale OpenSearch clusters. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even […]
AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) customers can now change response for Config Rules
We’re excited to announce the ability to change the default AMS response for Config Rules in Accelerate operations plan. With this release, customers can now choose whether they want AMS to remediate, ask for customer approval, or just add to a monthly report on the alerts from AMS supported security Config Rules. By adjusting the […]
Azure – Public preview: Incremental snapshots for Ultra Disk Storage
To ensure business continuity, incremental snapshots for Ultra Disks are now available in public preview in the Sweden Central and US West 3 Azure region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Manage Kubernetes configuration at scale using the new GitOps observability dashboard
As a Platform Administrator or Operator, you’ve already been using Config Sync to sync your configurations — deployments, policy definitions, Helm charts, ConfigMaps, and more — consistently across many Kubernetes clusters. But with the excitement of solving one problem comes a new one: real time visibility on configuration syncs and failures across clusters. When operating […]
GCP – How innovative startups are growing their businesses on Google’s open data cloud
Data is one of the single most valuable assets for organizations today. It can empower businesses to do incredible things like create better views of health for hospitals, enable people to share timely insights with their colleagues, and — increasingly — be a foundational building block for startups who build their products and businesses in […]
GCP – How to get started with the Political Ads Transparency Report dataset
In 2022 we saw several major elections across the globe. And as many countries prepare for elections in 2023 and 2024, we’d like to re-introduce a set of transparency tools that Google provides in the election advertising space. We know that election advertising is an important component of the democratic process – candidates use ads […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) as a source cluster
Amazon Aurora now supports Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) as a source cluster or blue environment within Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments. This enables you to use Blue/Green Deployments for minor version upgrades for Aurora MySQL 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility). Read More for the details.