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GCP – New ISO 27001 and SOC Security Certifications for Google Maps Platform
We now have ISO 27001, SOC 2 and SOC 3security certifications for 25 Google Maps Platform products. Certifications such as these provide independent third-party validations of our ongoing commitment to world-class security and help our customers with their own compliance efforts. Google has spent years building one of the world’s most advanced infrastructures, and through […]

AWS – Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
Starting today, you can enable Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) from the AWS Console and launch ROSA clusters in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.6
You can now create Apache Airflow version 2.6 environments on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Apache Airflow 2.6 is the latest minor release of the popular open-source tool that helps customers author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery now in additional regions
The Amazon EventBridge Schema Registry and Schema Discovery features are now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions, allowing you to discover and store event structure – or schema – in a shared, central location. […]

AWS – AWS Service Catalog announces support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud
Today, AWS announces AWS Service Catalog support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. With this launch, customers using Terraform Cloud can provide self-service provisioning with governance to their teams. AWS customers can now use Service Catalog as the single tool to organize, govern, and distribute their Terraform configurations within AWS at scale. Customers can access Service Catalog […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier is an online tier specifically designed for efficiently storing data that is infrequently accessed or modified, all while ensuring immediate availability. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 68 – August 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.

Azure – WordPress on App Service: Integration with Azure Communication Services Email
Facilitates communication and drives engagement without requiring 3rd party plugins Read More for the details.
GCP – Create PromQL alerts in Cloud Monitoring now in Public Preview
Last year, we introduced Managed Service for Prometheus so that you can scale your Prometheus environment more easily that hosting it yourself. As part of that announcement, we also added support for Prometheus’ popular PromQL query language in Cloud Monitoring. Since then, we’ve heard from experienced and new Prometheus users that they’d like to manage […]