#30. What happened on cloud last week

AWS
- Regions news
- Amazon ECS Service Discovery now available in Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, and Singapore regions [1].
- Amazon MQ is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region [2].
- Amazon Route 53 auto naming is now available in five additional AWS regions: EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) [3].
- Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited Instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region [4].
- Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables are now available in the US West (N. California) and EU (London) regions [5].
- AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai, Paris and Taipei [6, 7] 🎉
- Amazon SQS Server-Side Encryption is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) region [8].
2. Amazon RDS is now available on VMware [9] 🎉
3. AWS WAF now supports full logging of all web requests inspected by the service [10] 🎉
4. Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) platform version eks.2 is now available [11] 🎉
5. Amazon RDS Performance Insights, an advanced database performance monitoring, is now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL [12] 🎉
6. AWS Fargate now supports time and event-based task scheduling [13]
7. AWS Systems Manager automation now supports calling AWS APIs [14]
8. Amazon FreeRTOS now supports an over-the-air update mechanism [15]
MS Azure
- Azure IoT Hub’s integration with Azure Event Grid is generally available [16]
- Azure CycleCloud is now generally available [17]
Azure CycleCloud is a tool for creating, managing, operating, and optimising HPC clusters of any scale in Azure.
Google Cloud Platform
- Automatic documentation for Cloud Endpoints API is now generally available [18]
- Tesla V100 GPUs are now generally available [19]
These GPUs offer serious power for complex computational workloads. The V100 GPU stands out in particular for machine learning workloads. Each V100 GPU has 640 tensor cores and offers up to 125 TFLOPS of mixed precision ML performance.
3. Cloud Text-to-Speech is now generally available, Cloud Speech-to-Text updated and now offers a wider feature-set [20]
4. Titan Security Keys: now available on the Google Store [21]
Titan Security Keys are FIDO security keys built with a hardware chip that includes firmware engineered by Google to verify the keys’ integrity.
5. Cloud Bigtable regional replication now generally available [22]
References
- Amazon ECS Service Discovery now available in Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, and Singapore regions.
- Amazon MQ is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region.
- Amazon Route 53 auto naming available in five additional AWS regions.
- Amazon EC2 T2 Unlimited Instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) region.
- Amazon DynamoDB Global Tables available in additional regions.
- AWS Direct Connect now in Dubai.
- New AWS Direct Connect locations in Paris and Taipei.
- Amazon SQS Server-Side Encryption is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) region.
- Amazon RDS is now available on VMware.
- AWS WAF launches new comprehensive logging functionality.
- Introducing Amazon EKS Platform Version 2.
- Performance Insights supports Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL.
- AWS Fargate now supports time and event-based task scheduling.
- AWS Systems Manager automation now supports calling AWS APIs.
- Over-the-Air (OTA) Updates for Amazon FreeRTOS.
- Azure IoT Hub’s integration with Azure Event Grid is generally available.
- Microsoft Azure, the cloud for high performance computing.
- Automatic documentation for your Cloud Endpoints API, now in GA.
- Tesla V100 GPUs are now generally available.
- Announcing updates to Cloud Speech-to-Text and the general availability of Cloud Text-to-Speech.
- Titan Security Keys: now available on the Google Store.
- Cloud Bigtable regional replication now generally available.

