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AWS – AWS Backup now supports VMware vSphere 8 and multiple virtual NICs
AWS Backup customers can now back up and restore their virtual machines running on VMware vSphere 8. Virtual machines compatible with ESX 3.x and later can use vSphere 8.0. Additionally, AWS Backup gateway now supports backups and restores of virtual machines configured with multiple vNICs (virtual network interface cards). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now generates an AWS Glue Data Catalog when migrating to Amazon S3
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded support of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a target by adding the ability to create an AWS Glue Data Catalog from the Amazon S3 data files generated by AWS DMS. With this integration, you no longer need to run a crawler or additional extract, transform, […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Transfer Family, a service that provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), in now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations adds support for binary analysis
AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations now allows you to analyze application binaries, detect incompatibilities, and identify viable modernization pathways such as refactoring and replatforming without assessing your application source code. Strategy Recommendations can now help inspect web application binaries on Windows and Linux Servers and generate incompatibility report that you can leverage to implement viable […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports S3 data validation
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports validation to ensure that data is migrated accurately to S3. Read More for the details.

GCP – Join us at RSA Conference to transform cybersecurity with frontline intelligence and cloud innovation
The promise of digital transformation is being challenged by the increasingly disruptive threat landscape. More sophisticated and capable adversaries have proliferated as nation-states pivot from cyber-espionage to compromise of private industry for financial gain. Their tactics shift and evolve rapidly as workloads and workforces become distributed and enterprises’ attack surface grows. And the security talent […]

Azure – Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds support for new Amazon VPC Flow Logs metadata
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports ingesting enriched metadata introduced in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs as part of versions 3 to 5 additional to the default fields. This launch includes metadata fields that provide more insights about the network interface, traffic type, and the path of egress traffic to the destination. Read […]

GCP – BigQuery under the hood: Behind the serverless storage and query optimizations that supercharge performance
Customers love the way BigQuery makes it easy for them to do hard things — from BigQuery Machine Learning (BQML) SQL turning data analysts into data scientists, to rich text analytics using the SEARCH function that unlocks ad-hoc text searches on unstructured data. A key reason for BigQuery’s ease of use is its underlying serverless […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports a small GPU machine type
AWS CodeBuild’s support for GPU-based workloads now run on an additional 4vCPU 1GPU machine type suited for less-resource intensive workloads. Read More for the details.