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AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached simplifies creating new clusters in the AWS Management Console
Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached now makes it simpler and faster for you to get started with setting up an ElastiCache for Memcached cluster. The new console experience offers streamlined navigation and minimal settings required to configure a cluster, in just a few clicks. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer and Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer are now available in an additional region
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can use Reachability Analyzer and Network Access Analyzer in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Monitron is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end system that uses machine learning to detect abnormal conditions in industrial equipment to enable predictive maintenance. Amazon Monitron includes wireless sensors to capture vibration and temperature data; gateways to automatically transfer data to the AWS Cloud; the Amazon Monitron service that analyzes the data for abnormal machine patterns using ML, […]

Azure – Generally available: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Cross Subscription Restore support for Azure VM is generally available. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.

GCP – Enter the Hardware-verse: Google hardware comes to life at Google Cloud Next
Imagine a world where you can see some of the most powerful hardware on the planet. Now imagine a place that combines high-performance hardware and interactive experiences together, for you to see, feel, and touch? When you come to Google Cloud Next, be sure to enter the Hardware-verse, our showcase area that brings experiences to […]

GCP – Improving sustainability with our Earth Engine and BigQuery connector
We are thrilled to announce general availability of a new feature that simplifies the export of tabular data from Google Earth Engine into BigQuery. Earth Engine and BigQuery share a common goal to make large-scale data processing accessible and usable by a wide range of people and applications. Earth Engine focuses on image (raster) processing, […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: How Atlas AI helps build a more resilient future
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing our partners and their solutions that are Built with BigQuery. The footprint of humanity is evolving substantially – from climate change alone scientists estimate that more than 600 million people on the planet have already been stranded outside of habitats that best support life. Other […]

GCP – The Modernization Imperative (TMI): The beauty in boring
You have something in your pocket right now that possesses more computing power than spacecraft fifteen billion miles away from Earth. No, not your mobile phone — the key fob for your car! Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977, and forty five years later, these little rascals still work and send data back […]
GCP – Hallo Germany! Berlin-Brandenburg Google Cloud region is now open
The Google Cloud region in Berlin-Brandenburg is now ready for customer use, our second region in Germany, and our 12th in Europe. The Berlin-Brandenburg region serves Google Cloud customers with local cloud capacity to scale their workloads and satisfy important in-country disaster recovery requirements — and it is part of our plan to invest 1 […]