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AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery supports automated replication of new disks
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports automated replication of new disks added to your source servers to help you maintain readiness of your AWS recovery site. Elastic Disaster Recovery helps minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery. Read […]

AWS – AWS Wickr now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS WickrGov is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of AWS Wickr. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 R5b instances, are now available in two new AWS Regions – Europe(Milan), and Europe(Stockholm). R5b instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and provide EBS-Optimized performance, enabling customers to lift and shift memory intensive applications to AWS. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lake Formation now available in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches expanded JSON attribute support in flows
Amazon Connect now supports the use of JSON structures such as nested arrays as attributes in flows, enabling you to build more personalized and automated customer experiences. For example, you can now build self-service experiences to help customers track their order status based on multiple purchases in the last month rather than the single most […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes
Today, AWS announced the availability of next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle and Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS gp3 volumes give you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. You can choose gp3 […]

AWS – Amazon Omics now enables batch variant store imports
Amazon Omics now supports batch import of variant data into Omics variant stores. You can now import up to 1,000 variant call format (VCF) and genome VCF (gVCF) files in a single variant import job. This simplifies how you bring population scale variant data into Omics and make it available for analysis. Read More for the […]

Azure – Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Image Builder Portal Functionality now available
Using Azure Image Builder’s new portal functionality, you can now build and validate custom images inside the portal. Now available! Read More for the details.
GCP – Confidential Space: The future of privacy-preserving collaboration
Today, we are happy to announce that Confidential Space is Generally Available. Confidential Space builds on our Confidential Computing portfolio. It provides a secure enclave, also known as a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), that our Google Cloud customers can leverage for privacy-focused use cases such as joint data analysis and machine learning (ML) model training. […]