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GCP – Cloud on Spain’s terms: New Google Cloud region in Madrid now open
We’re continuing to expand our global footprint — and we’re doing it rapidly. In 2020, we announced our plans to launch a new cloud region to help accelerate the economic recovery and growth of Spain. Today, we’re excited to announce that our new Google Cloud region in Madrid is officially open. Designed to help meet […]
Azure – Public preview: Autoscale Stream Analytics jobs
Autoscaling allows you to define the minimum and maximum streaming units. Stream Analytics will automatically take care of dynamically optimizing the number of streaming units needed for your workload. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 enables customers to protect instances from unintentional stop actions
Today, Amazon EC2 announced the Stop Protection feature that enables customers to protect their instances from accidental stop actions. Previously, customers could protect their instances from unintentional terminate actions by enabling Termination Protection. With Stop Protection, customers with stateful workloads can safeguard data in instance store volume(s) from unintentional stop and terminate actions. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana introduces new API for creating Grafana API tokens and support for version 8.4
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports a new API for creating Grafana API tokens, as well as support for new plugins, Grafana version 8.4, and workspace tags. With CreateWorkspaceApiKey, customers can create Grafana API tokens without having to log into the Grafana workspace console, enabling users to programmatically create, delete, and manage Grafana resources such as […]
AWS – AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Digital Twins 3D Scenes Studio
3D Scenes Studio allows you to build lightweight 3D visualization with contextual data visualizations that can be consumed easily from web browsers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Multi-Account Support for AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager
AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager now supports centralized management and monitoring of global networks across multiple AWS accounts within an organization, created using AWS Organizations. With this feature, Network Manager reduces the operational complexity of managing a large global network across AWS accounts over a single unified operational dashboard. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS AppSync introduces new simplified console experience to deploy generic real-time Pub/Sub APIs
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. With AppSync, you can easily configure data sources to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients. AppSync handles connection management, scalability, fan-out and broadcasting, allowing you to focus on your application business needs instead of […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup supports backup of Write Accelerator enabled disks
Azure Virtual Machine backup protects Write Accelerator enabled disks Read More for the details.
AWS – Two new storage locations available for AWS DataSync
Today, we are announcing the general availability of two additional storage locations for AWS DataSync, an online data movement service that makes it easy to sync your data both into and out of the AWS Cloud. This release expands the number of supported storage locations from 10 to 12, spanning on-premises, edge, and other cloud […]