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GCP – Announcing the 2023 Google Cloud Partners of the Year
Congratulations to the 2023 Google Cloud Partner of the Year winners! These partners have been at the forefront of innovation, helping our customers embrace leading-edge technology to achieve their goals. The winners of this year’s award are a testament to the power of creativity, collaboration, and customer focus. We are proud to partner with such […]

GCP – Introducing Cross-Cloud Network: a new way to network
Organizations depend on the network to drive transformation and deliver business outcomes. But networking has become incredibly complex, as organizations migrate workloads, assemble modern distributed applications (often across on-prem and multiple clouds), and adopt new innovations such as generative AI where they need high-performance networking to run foundation models, training and inferencing at scale, independent […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 23 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by […]

AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports licensing cost optimization for Microsoft SQL Server
AWS Compute Optimizer now recommends licensing optimization opportunities for Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon EC2. With this launch, AWS Compute Optimizer can provide automated recommendations for downgrading SQL Server Edition for your EC2 SQL Server license included and bring-your-own-license (BYOL) instances to reduce licensing cost. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing the Pollen API: Providing actionable info about airborne pollen levels worldwide
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our Next ’23 series sharing the latest Google Maps Platform news from the global exhibition of inspiration, innovation, and education. To learn more about our new products, join the What’s New with Google Maps Platform session tomorrow from 11 – 11:45 a.m. PDT. According to the World Health […]

GCP – Powering the future with our new Solar API
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our Next ’23 series sharing the latest Google Maps Platform news from the global exhibition of inspiration, innovation, and education. To learn more about our new products, join the What’s New with Google Maps Platform session tomorrow from 11 – 11:45 a.m. PDT. The global energy crisis, higher […]

GCP – Introducing the Air Quality API: Promoting resilience to a changing climate
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our Next ’23 series sharing the latest Google Maps Platform news from the global exhibition of inspiration, innovation, and education. To learn more about our new products, join the What’s New with Google Maps Platform session tomorrow from 11- 11:45 a.m. PDT. According to the World Health Organization, […]

GCP – Going beyond the map: Introducing Environment APIs
Editor’s Note: This post is part of our Next ’23 series sharing the latest Google Maps Platform news from the global exhibition of inspiration, innovation, and education. To learn more about our new products, join the What’s New with Google Maps Platform session tomorrow from 11 – 11:45 a.m. PDT. When it comes to the […]

AWS – Monitor SAP NetWeaver Standard Deployment with CloudWatch Application Insights
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now offers observability of SAP NetWeaver applications deployed with Standard System Deployment architecture. This launch builds on our observability of multi-app deployments on a single instance. Application Insights helps customers gain insights for their SAP and non-SAP applications, databases and AWS resources by making it easy to set up and monitor […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS from Israel (Tel Aviv)
Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Tel Aviv region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those phone […]