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GCP – Faster together: How Dun & Bradstreet datasets accelerate your real-time insights
At the third annual Google Data Cloud and AI Summit, we shared how data analytics and insights continue to be a key focus area for our customers and how we’re accelerating their data journeys through new product innovations and partner offerings. A big part of that is helping customers turn their data into insights faster […]

AWS – AWS DataSync can now copy data to and from Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snow
AWS DataSync announced support for moving data to and from Amazon S3 compatible storage on AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices. Amazon S3 compatible storage delivers secure object storage with high resiliency, increased scale, and an expanded S3 API feature set to rugged, mobile edge, and disconnected environments. Customers storing data and running applications on […]

AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in four new regions
Amazon MQ is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 31 regions. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Rent. helps millions of people find a new home with Aerial View
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Nishant Phadnis, Chief Product Officer, Rent. Nishant shares how Rent. provides renters with a cinematic bird’s-eye view of communities and their surrounding areas, utilizing Aerial View from Google Maps Platform. Although searching for a new home is exciting, it can be a challenging process. Making a house into […]

AWS – Announcing the general availability of EC2 G5 instances in Los Angeles Local Zones
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now generally available in the Local Zones location in Los Angeles. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. These instances are designed for graphics-intensive applications, machine […]

AWS – Amazon Athena now supports IPv6 endpoints for inbound connections
Amazon Athena has expanded its support for inbound connections via Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) endpoints to include AWS PrivateLink. Starting today, you can now connect to Athena securely and privately using PrivateLink from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), in addition to the public IPv6 endpoints that were previously available. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2023 Release Update for 19c
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the April 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 19c. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Global Accelerator extends TCP termination to IPv6 traffic
AWS Global Accelerator now supports TCP termination at the edge for IPv6 traffic, in addition to IPv4 traffic. TCP termination automatically improves performance for workloads such as API operations, file uploads, and HTTP workloads. Starting today, customers who use dual-stack accelerators can get the benefits of TCP termination at the edge for both IPv4 traffic […]

AWS – AWS User Notifications is now generally available for AWS Data Exchange
We are announcing the availability of AWS User Notifications for AWS Data Exchange. This feature allows data subscribers to configure human-readable notifications for AWS Data Exchange events, such as when a provider publishes a new revision to a data set or when a provider adds a data set to a product. Previously, data subscribers could […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features – Edit Volumes
Azure NetApp Files now supports ability to edit existing ANF volumes and upgrading Basic network features to Standard network features. Read More for the details.