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AWS – Amazon GameLift launches new console experience
Amazon GameLift now offers a new console experience that provides a more intuitive way to manage and scale your game servers on AWS. The redesigned console has new left-hand navigation that makes it easy to switch between various GameLift features such as managing and creating builds, scripts, fleets, FlexMatch, and includes helpful resource links like “Prepare […]

Azure – General availability: MATCH clause for Query
The MATCH clause is used in the Azure Digital Twins query language and allows you to specify which pattern should be followed while traversing relationships in the ADT graph. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS DataSync can now copy data to and from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS DataSync now supports copying files to and from Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a storage service that allows customers to launch and run fully managed ONTAP file systems in the cloud. Using AWS DataSync, you can quickly and securely migrate your data from your on-premises storage, the edge, or other clouds to your FSx […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Level Aware Calculation (LAC)
Amazon QuickSight launches a suite of functions called Level Aware Calculations (LAC). The new calculation enables customers to specify the level of granularity that they want the window functions (in what window to partition by) or aggregate functions (at what level to group by) to be conducted. This brings flexibility and simplification for users to […]

GCP – CISO Perspectives: June 2022
June saw the in-person return of the RSA Conference in San Francisco, one of the largest cybersecurity enterprise conferences in the world. It was great to meet with so many of you at many of our Google Cloud events, at our panel hosted in partnership with Cyversity, and throughout the conference. At RSA we focused […]

AWS – Amazon RDS increases concurrent copy limit to 20 snapshots per destination region
Amazon RDS now allows you to have up to 20 concurrent snapshot copy requests per destination region per account, an increase from the former limit of five concurrent copies per destination region per account. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Polly adds new male Neural TTS voices in 4 languages
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of 4 male Neural TTS voices: Liam for Canadian French, Arthur for UK English, Daniel for German and Pedro for US Spanish. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue Streaming ETL now supports auto-decompression
AWS Glue streaming ETL (Extract Transform and Load) can now detect compressed data streaming from Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), and self managed Apache Kafka. It can then automatically decompresses this data without customers having to write code, saving them development hours. AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs continuously consume data […]

GCP – Introducing Google Public Sector
Google Cloud has a long history of supporting and working with the governments in many different parts of the world, including the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Japan. We’ve helped government agencies modernize their core technology systems; transformed the way in which they deliver services via digital platforms to citizens; delivered security […]
Azure – Generally available: Export device data under an organization in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central data export feature now supports the ability to filter data under an organization as well as include organizations path in the exported data. Read More for the details.