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GCP – Dialing up the impact of digital natives in the MENA region with Google Cloud
Entrepreneurs with the passion to drive positive impact have been selecting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as the launchpad for their businesses since 2015, based on insights from Google Cloud’s digital natives unit. Today, the region is taking center stage due to the thousands of startups, digital natives, and web3 companies thriving. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift Data Sharing now available in AWS China Regions
Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure way to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters, is now available in AWS China regions. Customers can now share data to provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups in the same account and different accounts, as long as they are within the same region. Redshift Data Sharing enables instant, granular, […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis simplifies creating new clusters in the AWS Management Console
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now makes it simpler and faster for you to get started with setting up a new MemoryDB cluster. The new console experience offers streamlined navigation and minimal settings required to configure a cluster, in just a few clicks. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure DNS Private Resolver is available in 8 additional regions
Azure DNS Private Resolver is now available in West US, Canada East, Qatar Central, UAE North, Australia Southeast, Norway East, Norway East, and Poland Central. Read More for the details.
Azure – Preview: Automatic Scaling for App Service Web Apps
App Service has an automatic scaling capability that adjusts the number of running instances of your application based on incoming HTTP requests. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager
We are excited to announce that the AlwaysServe feature for Azure Traffic Manager is now available in Public Preview. This feature allows customers to disable endpoint health checks from an ATM profile and always serve traffic to that given endpoint. Read More for the details.
GCP – Looker now available from Google Cloud console
Looker helps make it easy to get insights from business data and to build data-driven applications with unified metrics for ease of collaboration. Today, we are bringing Looker to the Google Cloud console, making it simpler than ever to acquire, deploy, and manage Looker in your Google Cloud environment, in a solution we call Looker […]
GCP – Introducing BigQuery differential privacy and partnership with Tumult Labs
We are excited to announce the public preview of BigQuery differential privacy, an SQL building block that analysts and data scientists can use to anonymize their data. In the future, we’ll integrate differential privacy with BigQuery data clean rooms to help organizations anonymize and share sensitive data, all while preserving privacy. This launch adds differential […]