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AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator announces Pause I/O action for Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports Pause I/O for Amazon EBS volumes as a new FIS action type. With the new fault action, customers with highly available applications can test their architecture and monitoring, such as operating system timeout configurations and CloudWatch alarms, to improve resiliency to storage faults. Customers can observe how their […]

AWS – SageMaker announces preview of ml.p4de instances for model deployment
We are excited to announce the preview of ml.p4de.24xlarge instances for deploying machine learning (ML) models for inference on Amazon SageMaker. Read More for the details.

AWS – Database Activity Streams for Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon Aurora now available in 3 additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle and Amazon Aurora now support Database Activity Streams in AWS regions Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) . Database Activity Streams provides a near real-time stream of database activities to help meet your relational database for compliance and regulatory requirements. When integrated with third […]

AWS – AWS announces three new AWS Direct Connect locations
Today, AWS announced the opening of new AWS Direct Connect locations in Melbourne, Australia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Zurich, Switzerland. By connecting your network to AWS at one of these locations, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for […]

GCP – Snap maintains uptime and growth with Mission Critical Services
The Snap Inc. visual messaging app, Snapchat, is one of the world’s most popular social media apps. In 2011, the Snapchat platform was developed on Google Cloud to provide an architecture that enabled Snap to focus on its core strengths: advancing the development of its social platform and ecosystem to speed attraction of users and […]

GCP – How Iron Mountain uses Assured Workloads to serve our customers’ compliance needs
Editor’s note: Data storage experts Iron Mountain turned to Google Cloud when they wanted to scale their digital business. David Williams, cloud manager at Iron Mountain, explains in this post how Assured Workloads helped Iron Mountain’s InSight product achieve and maintain compliance with government standards and better protect customer data. Businesses need the right information […]

Azure – General Availability: 5 GB Put Blob
Maximum Put Blob size is now increasing to 5 GB Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces Amazon-provided contiguous IPv6 CIDR blocks
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon provided IPv6 contiguous Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) blocks with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Within IPAM, customers can create IPv6 publicly scoped pools and provision with BYOIP CIDR blocks. Now, customers can provision Amazon provided IPv6 CIDR blocks from /52 up to /40 in size into separate pools […]

AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Region
AWS GovCloud (US) Region customers can now use AWS Compute Optimizer to reduce costs and improve performance. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Conversational AI Competency Partner’s implement high-quality chatbot solutions
We are excited to highlight AWS Conversational AI Competency Partners, who enable enterprises to implement high-quality, highly effective chatbot, virtual assistant, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions. Read More for the details.