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AWS – Amazon Redshift Data Sharing now available in AWS China Regions
Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure way to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters, is now available in AWS China regions. Customers can now share data to provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups in the same account and different accounts, as long as they are within the same region. Redshift Data Sharing enables instant, granular, […]

AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis simplifies creating new clusters in the AWS Management Console
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now makes it simpler and faster for you to get started with setting up a new MemoryDB 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.

Azure – Generally available: Azure DNS Private Resolver is available in 8 additional regions
Azure DNS Private Resolver is now available in West US, Canada East, Qatar Central, UAE North, Australia Southeast, Norway East, Norway East, and Poland Central. Read More for the details.

Azure – Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based on incoming HTTP requests. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint. Read More for the details.

GCP – Looker now available from Google Cloud console
Looker helps make it easy to get insights from business data and to build data-driven applications with unified metrics for ease of collaboration. Today, we are bringing Looker to the Google Cloud console, making it simpler than ever to acquire, deploy, and manage Looker in your Google Cloud environment, in a solution we call Looker […]

GCP – Introducing BigQuery differential privacy and partnership with Tumult Labs
We are excited to announce the public preview of BigQuery differential privacy, an SQL building block that analysts and data scientists can use to anonymize their data. In the future, we’ll integrate differential privacy with BigQuery data clean rooms to help organizations anonymize and share sensitive data, all while preserving privacy. This launch adds differential […]

GCP – 5 steps to automating and streamlining your regulatory reporting
Regulatory reporting requirements continue to become more complex. In response, financial services institutions continue to devote more resources to ensure compliance year after year. This added complexity combined with technological challenges make it hard to produce reports that meet evolving regulatory needs. As a result, financial institutions have struggled to produce reports without adding significant […]

GCP – How ANZ Bank uses risk reporting as a change agent
Last year, Australia’s second-largest bank by assets under management – ANZ Bank – set out to accelerate its digital transformation to provide a single, consistent, high-quality set of corporate data across the organization. This dataset will enable personnel to swiftly glean insights, enhancing credit decisioning, credit risk comprehension, and the ability to reduce financial crime. […]
GCP – Your new regulatory reporting mantra: simple, fast, and repeatable
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, financial services institutions have invested heavily to keep pace with the changing regulatory landscape. Even well-resourced teams have been stretched thin trying to keep up with the evolving regulatory reporting requirements because of their dependencies on legacy technology and highly manual processes. At the same time, the velocity of […]