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GCP – New storage innovations to drive your next-gen applications
As we talk to customers large and small, we are seeing more and more “data-rich” workloads moving to the cloud. Customers are collecting more valuable data than ever before, and they want that data from different sources to be centralized and normalized before running analytics on it. Storage is becoming the common substrate for enabling […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) Hyperledger Fabric is now generally available in AWS Govcloud (US-West) Region, allowing customers in both the public and commercial sectors to create as well as manage production-grade blockchain infrastructure with just a few clicks. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in the AWS Europe (Paris and Milan) Regions
Starting today, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is generally available in two additional AWS Regions: Europe (Paris) and Europe (Milan). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Snowball is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Snowball devices are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lookout for Metrics increases limits on number of measures and dimensions
We are excited to announce that you can now add up to 10 measures and 10 dimensions when setting up your detector for Amazon Lookout for Metrics. With this launch you can now include more measures and dimensions in a single detector, which allows you to get insights on root causes and causality across all […]

Azure – In Development: New options to bring your licenses to a partner’s cloud
On October 1, 2022, Microsoft will implement significant upgrades to our outsourcing and hosting terms that will benefit customers worldwide. Read More for the details.

GCP – Trust Update: September 2022
If you work in compliance, privacy, or risk, you know that regulatory developments have continued to accelerate this year. As part of our commitment to be the most trusted cloud, we continue to pursue global industry standards, frameworks, and codes of conduct that tackle our customers’ foundational need for a documented baseline of addressable requirements. […]

GCP – Optimizing terabyte-scale PostgreSQL migrations to Cloud SQL with Searce
Google Cloud allows you to move your PostgreSQL databases to Cloud SQL with Database Migration Service (DMS). DMS gives you the ability to replicate data continuously to the destination database, while the source is live in production, enabling you to migrate with minimum downtime. However, terabyte-scale migrations can be complex. For instance, if your PostgreSQL […]

Azure – Generally available: Resource instance rules for access to Azure Storage
Resource instance rules enable secure connectivity to Azure Storage by only allowing access from specific resources of select Azure services. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new AWS Console Home widgets for recent AWS blog posts and launch announcements
We are excited to announce two new widgets (Latest announcements and Recent AWS blog posts) are available on AWS Console Home. Using these widgets, you can more easily learn about new AWS capabilities and get the latest news about AWS launches, events, and more. The AWS blog posts and launch announcements shown are related to […]