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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 […]
GCP – Announcing Google Cloud’s new Digital Sovereignty Explorer
Digital sovereignty continues to be a top priority for organizations working to advance or begin their digital transformation efforts. Over the past few years, Google Cloud has worked extensively with customers, partners, policy makers and governments around the world to understand evolving sovereignty requirements. In Europe, this has resulted in our “Cloud. On Europe’s Terms” […]
AWS – AWS Batch launches support for configurable Ephemeral Storage on AWS Fargate
AWS Batch now enables you to configure ephemeral storage up to 200 GiB in size on AWS Fargate type jobs. This means that you can expand the available ephemeral storage beyond the default value of 20 GiB for your jobs when using Fargate as the compute platform on AWS Batch. With this launch, you no […]
AWS – Amazon WorkDocs announces Search Resources API
Amazon WorkDocs now offers Search Resources API for builders to programmatically search files and folders that you have permissions for. The new Search Resources API provides keyword search and a wide array of search result filtering capabilities. Customers can apply filters such as content type, last modified date range, file owner, and labels. The new […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Event Notifications now supports Amazon EventBridge in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
You can now use Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to build, scale, and deploy event-driven applications based on changes to the data you store in Amazon S3. This makes it easier to act on new data in Amazon S3, build multiple applications that react to object changes […]
AWS – Amazon ECS provides contextual failure reasons for troubleshooting task launches with capacity providers
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now provides contextual failure reasons that make it easier to troubleshoot task launch failures when customers use capacity providers for auto scaling the compute capacity in their cluster. Read More for the details.
AWS – Application Load Balancer now supports TLS 1.3
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now supports version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, enabling you to optimize the performance of your backend application servers while helping to keep your workloads secure. TLS 1.3 on ALB works by offloading encryption and decryption of TLS traffic from your application servers to the load balancer. TLS […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 15
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 15. PostgreSQL 15 includes new features such as the SQL standard “MERGE” command for conditional SQL queries, performance improvements for both in-memory and disk-based sorting, support for two-phase commit, and row/column filtering for logical replication. The PostgreSQL 15 release also adds support for server-side […]
AWS – AWS announces new edge location in Peru
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces Amazon CloudFront expansion in Peru by launching a new edge location in Lima. Customers in Perú can expect up to 50 percent improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location to provide end users faster, more responsive applications. The new AWS edge location brings the […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now enables OAuth based access to Snowflake
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports OAuth based authentication with identity providers including Okta, Microsoft Azure AD, and Ping Federate to access data in Snowflake for machine learning (ML). Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for ML from weeks to minutes using a visual interface in Amazon SageMaker Studio. […]