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GCP – Synopsys helps semiconductor designers accelerate chip design and development on Google Cloud
Google Cloud and Synopsys Inc are partnering to help semiconductor companies drive Electronic Design Automation (EDA) innovation in the cloud to accelerate time to market, and lower costs across the entire semiconductor product life cycle. Synopsys is the industry’s largest provider of EDA technology used in the design and verification of integrated circuits, or semiconductor […]

GCP – Introducing Cloud Logging – Log Analytics, powered by BigQuery
Logging is a critical part of the software development lifecycle allowing developers to debug their apps, DevOps/SRE teams to troubleshoot issues, and security admins to analyze access. Cloud Logging provides a powerful pipeline to reliably ingest logs at scale and quickly find your logs. Today, we’re pleased to announce Log Analytics, a new set of […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Dropbox connector
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Dropbox connector to index and search documents from Dropbox data source. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn Instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Is4gen and Im4gn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. They feature up to 30TB of storage with the new AWS Nitro SSDs that are custom-designed by […]

AWS – AWS Cost Categories now support retroactive rules application
AWS Cost Categories now support retroactive application of cost category rules. Previously, while creating a cost category, the rules applied from the start of current month. Similarly, while editing a cost category rule, the changes applied from the start of current month. With this launch, while creating a cost category, you can apply cost category rules […]

AWS – Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now available in seven more regions
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS is now available in the Europe (London and Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai and Seoul), US West (N. California), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing unique place IDs for Amazon Location Service
Amazon Location Service now enables developers to retrieve known geographical locations using a unique identifier. For example, when using autocomplete functionality to help end-users complete their searches, developers can use the unique identifier of the end-user’s selection to retrieve the location in future queries. Using this unique identifier, developers can create consistent search experiences, filter […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files
The new Azure Policy built-in definitions for Azure NetApp Files enable organization admins to restrict creation of unsecure volumes or audit existing volumes. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Copilot, a CLI for the containerized apps, adds IAM permission boundaries and more
AWS customers can now download and use the latest version, v1.22, of AWS Copilot, a command line interface (CLI) for containerized applications. AWS Copilot makes it easier for customers to build, deploy, and operate containerized applications on AWS by providing a common application architecture and infrastructure patterns, user-friendly operational workflows, and set up of continuous […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in 12 additional AWS Regions
Amazon EMR is excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, and Singapore), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California), and US East (Ohio) regions. These regions are in addition to the existing US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), […]