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AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, and 11.18. These releases contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you […]

AWS – Amazon Detective adds Amazon VPC Flow Logs visualizations for Amazon EKS workloads
Amazon Detective now adds visual summaries and analytics about your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs from your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads. This new capability visualizes all network traffic from your EKS workloads and allows you to quickly answer questions like “what ports or network services were in use by my EKS […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow announces 10 new connectors
Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 10 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new connectors enable you to transfer your data from Asana, Delighted, Google Calendar, Intercom, JDBC, PayPal, Pendo, Smartsheet, Snapchat Ads, and WooCommerce. These new connectors make it easier for customers to access their data for use cases such as data […]

Azure – Classic VM retirement: extending retirement date to September 1st 2023
Extended migration period for your IaaS VMs from Azure Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager. Please complete the migration by 1 September 2023. Read More for the details.

GCP – A new Google Cloud region is coming to Kuwait
To meet growing demand for cloud services in the Middle East, we are excited to announce plans to bring a new Google Cloud region to Kuwait to support our growing customer base. When it opens, the Kuwait region will deliver high-performance services that make it easier for organizations to serve their own users faster, more […]

GCP – Accessing Cloud SQL using Private Service Connect
Private Service Connect (PSC) allows private consumption of services across VPC networks that belong to different groups, teams, projects, or organizations. In some cases it can be a much better alternative than VPC Peering, Shared VPC or other approaches of private connectivity. In this blog post we are sharing a workaround to use PSC to […]

GCP – Apply policy bundles and monitor policy compliance at scale for Kubernetes clusters
As more enterprise customers are adopting a hybrid and multi cloud strategy, centralized security and governance become increasingly important as workloads are distributed across the environments. Anthos is our cloud-centric container platform to run modern applications anywhere consistently and at scale. Anthos Config Management (ACM) automates policy and security for Kubernetes clusters and is comprised […]

GCP – Vertex AI Foundations for secure and compliant ML/AI deployment
An increasing number of Enterprise customers are adopting ML/AI as their core transformational pillars, in order to differentiate, increase revenue, reduce costs and maximize efficiency. For many customers ML/AI adoption can be a challenging endeavor not only because of the broad spectrum of applications ML/AI can support, deciding on which one to prioritize can be […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.