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AWS – Announcing per-second billing for all Amazon GameLift instances
We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports per-second billing for both Linux and Windows instances. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this update, customers will only pay for Amazon GameLift usage in one second increments, with a […]

AWS – Allow Listing tool for testing new Billing, Cost Management and Account console permissions
Today, AWS announces the release of an allow listing feature that helps you test and enable the new fine-grained IAM permissions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account services. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google is named a Leader in Forrester Data Security Platforms Wave
To help organizations confidently move their sensitive data to the cloud, Google Cloud works diligently to earn and maintain customer trust. Our Trusted Cloud is committed to giving you a secure foundation that you can verify and independently control. Discovery and protection of sensitive data are integral parts of Google Cloud’s strategy to safeguard customer […]

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters are now available in 3 additional regions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters are now available in 3 Asia Pacific regions – Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. DocumentDB Elastic Clusters are a new type of DocumentDB cluster that enables you to elastically scale your document database to handle millions of reads and writes per second with petabytes of storage. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Service Catalog now available AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Today we are excited to announce the availability of AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. AWS Service Catalog enables customers to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, […]

AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS IoT TwinMaker is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, extending the service footprint to seven AWS Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Aurora cross-region disaster recovery capabilities now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region
Amazon Aurora now supports disaster recovery capabilities of Global Database and Cross-Region database cluster snapshot copying in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Security Lake (Preview) is now available in three additional Regions
Starting today, Amazon Security Lake (Preview) is available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (London), and South America (Sao Paulo). You can now automatically centralize your security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Backup for Amazon S3 is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3 in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and automate data protection of Amazon S3 along with other AWS services (spanning compute, storage, and databases) and third-party applications. […]
AWS – AWS Resilience Hub adds support for Amazon EKS
AWS Resilience Hub has added Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) as a supported resource. Resilience Hub provides a single place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications so that you can avoid unnecessary downtime caused by software, infrastructure, or operational disruptions. Amazon EKS is a managed service to run Kubernetes in […]