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AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports PostgreSQL 11 and In-Place upgrade from PostgreSQL 10
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports PostgreSQL major version 11. PostgreSQL 11 includes improvements to partitioning, parallelism, and performance enhancements such as faster column additions with a non-null default. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing version history support for Cloud-based maps styling
For many Google Maps Platform developers, the map is a core part of their user experience that needs to strike a balance between the right look and just the right amount of information. For example, a travel app developer might want to show more restaurants and landmarks while hiding other points of interest that are […]

GCP – Fueling business growth with a seamless Google Cloud migration
In today’s hybrid office environments, it can be difficult to know where your most valuable, sensitive content is, who’s accessing it, and how people are using it. That’s why Egnyte focuses on making it simple for IT teams to manage and control a full spectrum of content risks, from accidental data deletion to privacy compliance. […]

GCP – Cloud Functions 2nd gen is GA, delivering more events, compute and control
For over seven years, Functions-as-a-Service has changed how developers create solutions and move toward a programmable cloud. Functions made it easy for developers to build highly scalable, easy-to-understand, loosely-coupled services. But as these services evolved, developers faced challenges such as cold starts, latency, connecting disparate sources, and managing costs. In response, we are evolving Cloud […]

GCP – Google Workspace and Google Cloud help build the future of work at Airbus
“Any device, anytime, anywhere.” A cohort of CIOs within Airbus believed that the cloud, combined with new ways of working, could provide the foundation for this vision. Google Workspace and Google Cloud have played a pivotal role in helping Airbus realize this new path, transforming security, data management, and collaboration along the way. The Airbus […]

GCP – Introducing Google Cloud and Google Workspace support for multiple Identity providers with Single Sign-On
Google is one of the largest identity providers on the Internet. Users rely on our identity systems to log into Google’s own offerings, as well as third-party apps and services. For our business customers, we provide administratively managed Google accounts that can be used to access Google Workspace, Google Cloud, and BeyondCorp Enterprise. Today we’re […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports sharing of pipeline entities across accounts
You can now use Amazon SageMaker Model Building Pipelines with AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to securely share pipeline entities across AWS accounts and access shared pipelines through direct API calls. A multi-account strategy helps achieve data, project, and team isolation while supporting software development lifecycle steps. Cross-account pipeline sharing can support a multi-account strategy without […]

AWS – AWS Glue now supports Flex execution option
AWS Glue now supports a new execution option that allows customers to reduce the costs of their pre-production, test, and non-urgent data integration workloads by up to 34%. With Flex, Glue jobs run on spare capacity in AWS. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Direct Connect expands AWS Transit Gateway support at more connection speeds
AWS Direct Connect now supports connections to AWS Transit Gateway at speeds of 500 megabits per second (Mbps) and lower, providing more cost-effective choices for Transit Gateway users when higher speed connections are not required. With this change, customers using Direct Connect at connection speeds of 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 Mbps can now can […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports promotion of managed in-region read replica
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports the promotion of a managed replica that was created using the replica function. When you promote a managed replica, it is converted from a physical standby database and activated as a standalone read/write primary database instance. Read More for the details.