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AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan)
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in 22 regions, including Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan). Read More for the details.
AWS – PartiQL for DynamoDB now is supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
PartiQL—a SQL-compatible query language—for Amazon DynamoDB is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports speech to text in 2 new languages: Swedish and Vietnamese
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports batch transcription in two new languages – Swedish and Vietnamese. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports X2iedn instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS now supports X2iedn DB instances for RDS for MySQL and on RDS for PostgreSQL. The X2iedn instances are ideal for read-intensive and high throughput write workloads. X2iedn instances support recently announced features such as Amazon RDS Optimized Writes and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys posts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Amazon Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances in four additional regions
We are excited to announce support for the Amazon Graviton2 instance family in four additional regions. Supported instance types include general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g and R6GD) instances. Support for C6g, M6g, R6g and R6gd is available in the Europe (Paris) region. In addition, the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces ingestion and storage support for Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC (Preview)
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now offers fully managed capabilities to stream video and audio in real-time from Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) standards compliant cameras, IoT devices and browsers to the cloud for secured storage, playback and analytical processing. Customers can now use our enhanced WebRTC SDK and cloud APIs to enable real-time streaming as well […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: December 2022
Welcome to December’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to look back at the most important security lessons of 2022 with my colleagues in our Office of the CISO and on the Google Cybersecurity Action Team. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. […]
GCP – New control plane connectivity and isolation options for your GKE clusters
Once upon a time, all Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters used public IP addressing for communication between nodes and the control plane. Subsequently, we heard your security concerns and introduced private clusters enabled by VPC peering. To consolidate the connectivity types, starting in March 2022, we began using Google Cloud’s Private Service Connect (PSC) for […]
GCP – Understanding Cloud Load Balancing for hybrid and multicloud environments
Today’s enterprise applications are often assembled across distributed environments. This includes the integration of services across multi-cloud, multi-SaaS and on-premises environments. While the approach has the advantage of enabling enterprises to choose the best service available to support their applications, it adds the complexity of delivering services across heterogeneous environments. To solve this, Cloud Load […]
GCP – 2022 was a year spent turning sustainable ambitions into action
Since I joined Google Cloud at the start of 2022, one theme that comes up time and time again in conversations with leaders both at our customers and partners is this: meaningful Climate Action is now about business transformation, and business transformation is essential if society is to meet its ever-more-urgent climate goals.. We spent […]