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GCP – A motorcycle accident left Googler Yariv Adan with chronic pain—it’s made him an advocate for empathy and equity
Editor’s note: Yariv Adan has been involved in the creation of some of Google’s most well-known and astonishing products—helping make complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) accessible and useful to billions of people. For a long time, he’s been living with chronic pain. A naturally lively and curious person, his personal journey has taught him resilience and […]
GCP – Google Cloud wrapped: Top 22 news stories of 2022, according to you
What a year! Over here at Google Cloud, we’re winding things down, but not before taking some time to reflect on everything that happened over the past twelve months. Inspired by the custom Spotify Wrapped playlist playing in our earbuds, we pulled the data about the best-read Google Cloud news posts of the year, to […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Bangkok and Kolkata
AWS Local Zones are now available in two new metro areas—Bangkok and Kolkata. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Crawlers enhances support for Delta Lake Tables
AWS Glue crawlers now have enhanced support for Linux Foundation Delta Lake tables, increasing operational efficiency to extract meaningful insights from analytics services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue. This feature enables analytics services scan Delta Lake tables without requiring the creation of manifest files by Glue crawlers. Newly cataloged data is […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) management APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks. You can now manage your Amazon EKS clusters in your VPC using AWS PrivateLink to help your […]
AWS – Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts now supports read replicas for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports Read Replicas. Amazon RDS Read Replicas provide enhanced performance and durability for RDS database (DB) instances. They provide the option to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads. You can create one or more replicas […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region
AWS Elemental MediaConvert is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region. You may now configure and submit MediaConvert jobs using the console or API endpoints within the Africa (Cape Town) region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and US West (N. California) Regions
AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), and US West (N. California) regions. IAM Identity Center helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and centrally manage their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications across your AWS organization. You can […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Client V1.8 now available through Elastic Container Registry with enhanced functionality
AWS IoT Device Client introduces a new version 1.8 which provides docker images, PowerPC architectures support, and an implementation to use the new “AWS Run-Command” Job Template. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 24TiB (u-24tb1.112xlarge) of memory are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.