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AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing new AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) APIs to manage users and groups at scale
AWS is launching additional APIs to create, read, update and delete users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On). The new APIs expand existing capabilities to help reduce administrative effort and save time, and provide greater visibility into the users and groups that are available in IAM Identity Center. You […]

AWS – AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and AD Connector are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: New Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors
New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure VMs, featuring Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, engineered to efficiently run scale-out, cloud-native workloads, are now available. Read More for the details.

GCP – Spanner on a modern columnar storage engine
Google was born in the cloud. At Google, we have been running massive infrastructure that powers critical internal and external facing services for more than two decades. Our investment in this infrastructure is constant, ranging from user visible features to invisible internals that makes the infrastructure more efficient, reliable and secure. Constant updates and improvements […]

GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 5 ways to reduce costs with containers
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google Cloud Product Manager Rachel Tsao explores how to save on compute costs with modern […]

Azure – Public preview: Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Azure Storage now supports customer-managed keys using a key vault on a different Azure Active Directory tenant. Read More for the details.

GCP – Expanding the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability initiative with 12 new partners
We introduced the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability designation earlier this year to showcase those partners committed to help global businesses and governments accelerate their sustainability programs. These partners build solutions that enhance the capabilities and ease the adoption of powerful Google Cloud technologies, such as Google Earth Engine and BigQuery, allowing customers to leverage […]

Azure – General availability: Managed identity to connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage
Connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage accounts via managed identity established through Azure Active Directory to provide a more streamlined and secure process. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Workload Consolidation for Karpenter
Starting with v0.15.0, Karpenter will automatically consolidate Kubernetes cluster workloads onto new EC2 instances to help increase utilization and lower cluster compute costs. Karpenter is a flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler that helps improve application availability, operational overhead, and cluster compute utilization by launching new EC2 instances that are best fit to the scale, scheduling, […]