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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 […]

GCP – Effective strategies to closing the data-value gap
We have been going through a phenomenal amount of technological advances in the space of big data and cloud, driven by the organizations’ needs to get value out of data. It’s a given that data drives innovation, but business needs are changing more rapidly than processes can accommodate, resulting in a widening gap between data […]

GCP – How B2B digital commerce will unfold in 2023
Editor’s note: Google Cloud partner commercetools shares how modern technologies like composable commerce, cloud-native infrastructure and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) will lead the way in business-to-business (B2B) digital commerce this year. Digital commerce in B2B has been predicted as the next big thing for years; yet, at the start of COVID-19, 60% of B2B companies […]

GCP – Bigtable Monitoring: Client-side Metrics
Cloud Bigtable is a NoSQL database service that can achieve single-digit millisecond latency for reads and writes. However, if you’re developing applications with complex infrastructure, global customers and millions of interactions, there is potential for unexpected latency. Latency in large scale systems can cause missed business opportunities, poor customer experiences, and disrupted data pipelines. Because […]

GCP – New research: Search abandonment continues to vex retailers worldwide
Search abandonment—when a shopper searches for a product on a retailer’s website but doesn’t find what they are looking for—costs retailers more than $2 trillion annually globally1, and more than $234 billion in the United States alone. Today, we’re releasing new data about the impact of search abandonment, including its role in brand loyalty and […]
GCP – The new Google Cloud region in Turin Italy is now open
We are excited to announce the opening of our new cloud region in Turin, Italy. This new region joins the recently opened Google Cloud region in Milan to provide highly available and sustainable cloud services with data sovereignty and residency functionality to meet the needs of the Italian economy. It also joins 35 other Google […]