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AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now generally available
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users—including data analysts, developers, and data scientists—can now use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in seconds. Amazon Redshift Serverless automatically provisions and intelligently scales […]

AWS – Announcing general availability (GA) of Automated Materialized View for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift announces GA of Automated Materialized View (AutoMV) that helps you to lower query latency for repeatable workloads. AutoMV minimizes your effort for manually creating and managing materialized views and provides you the same performance benefits of user-created materialized views. Dashboard queries used to provide quick views of key performance indicators (KPIs), events, trends, and […]

AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN
Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Cloud WAN, a wide area networking (WAN) service that helps you build, manage, and monitor a unified global network. The service manages traffic running between your AWS resources and your on-premises environments. Read More for the details.

GCP – How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops
Hero image credit: Markus Teich At Google we run large production fleets that serve Google products like YouTube and Gmail. To support all our employees, including engineers, we also run a sizable corporate fleet with hundreds of thousands of devices across multiple platforms, models, and locations. To let each Googler work in the environment they […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub adds four new integration partners
AWS Security Hub has added four new integration partners to help customers with their cloud security posture monitoring. Integrations from Lacework, Juniper Networks, SentinelOne, and K9 Security bring Security Hub to 79 integrations. Lacework sends findings from their Polygraph Data Platform (PDP) to Security Hub to help manage AWS posture and compliance events. Juniper Networks’ vSRX Virtual […]

AWS – Introducing Nimble Studio seamless IAM access for studio components
Amazon Nimble Studio now supports seamless AWS Identity Access Management (IAM) profile access for studio components, and custom studio components, directly to workstation sessions, available immediately. This allows Nimble Studio admins to set up and control additional properties of their streaming workstations via seamless IAM role permissions, ensuring artists have the right level of access […]

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports VPC security group tag distribution with common security group policies
AWS Firewall Manager now supports centrally distributing VPC security group tags when creating a common security group policy. Read More for the details.

GCP – Data here, data there, look, there’s data everywhere! Replicating your data from Cloud SQL for SQL Server
Do you need an up-to-date copy of the data you’re storing in Cloud SQL for SQL Server? Cloud SQL now supports setting up replication from your Cloud SQL instance to an external subscriber (or to another Cloud SQL instance) using a SQL Server capability called transactional replication. This gives you another way to create an […]

AWS – Amazon Athena enhances console and API support for parameterized queries
Today, Amazon Athena announced enhancements to its console and API which provide more flexibility when using parameterized queries. You can now run parameterized queries directly from the Athena console and an enhanced API that no longer requires you to prepare SQL statements in advance. With today’s launch, it is now easier than before to take […]
AWS – AWS re:Post introduces profile pictures and inline images
re:Post has launched a new functionality for community members to add a profile picture or avatar to their account. re:Post members will now be able to better personalize their accounts by uploading a photo or image of their choice. The ability to add a profile image creates a visual identifier for the account and helps […]