#32. What happened on cloud last week

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AWS

1. Regions news

• Amazon ECS service discovery now available in Canada, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, and Paris regions [1].
• Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming is now available in five additional AWS regions: Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), EU (Paris) region [2].
• Amazon EC2 C5d and M5d instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region [3, 4].
• AWS X-Ray is now available in Europe (Paris) region [5].
• Amazon GameLift is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet [6].
• Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region [7].

2. AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for T3 instance and Go 1.11 [8]

3. Network Load Balancer now supports AWS VPN [9]

4. Amazon RDS news

• Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports IAM Authentication [10].
• Amazon RDS Now Provides Database Deletion Protection [11].

5. AWS PrivateLink now supports access over AWS VPN [12]

MS Azure

1. Larger Managed Disks sizes are in a public preview [13]

Increased the max disk size to 32 TiB, and max disk IOPS and bandwidth to 20,000 IOPS and 750 MBps on Premium SSDs.

2. Azure Ultra SSD is in review now [14]

Ultra SSD is a new Azure Managed Disk service which delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding workloads that require consistently low latency and high IOPS.

3. Announced Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway. Data Box is now generally available [15]

4. Announced significant improvements in Azure Files [16]

5. General availability of Tomcat and Java SE on App Service on Linux [17]

6. Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and MySQL in a preview [18, 19]

7. Azure Sphere is here - public preview and dev kits now available [20]

Google Cloud Platform

1. Private networking connection now available in beta for Cloud SQL [21]
2. Cloud Tasks is now available in beta [22]

Cloud Tasks is a fully managed, asynchronous task execution service that allows any application, running anywhere to use our standard API to add a task to the queue. Cloud Tasks enables serverless execution of your tasks via App Engine standard or flexible environments.

References

1. Amazon ECS service discovery now available in Canada, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, and Paris regions.
2. Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming Available in five additional AWS regions.
3. Amazon EC2 C5d instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.
4. Amazon EC2 M5d instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.
5. AWS X-Ray is now available in Europe (Paris) region.
6. Amazon GameLift is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet.
7. Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.
8. AWS Elastic Beanstalk adds support for T3 instance and Go 1.11.
9. Network Load Balancer now supports AWS VPN.
10. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports IAM Authentication.
11. Amazon RDS Now Provides Database Deletion Protection.
12. AWS PrivateLink now supports access over AWS VPN.
13. Introducing the public preview of larger Managed Disks sizes.
14. Announcing Ultra SSD — the next generation of Azure Disks technology (preview).
15. Expanding the Azure Data Box family.
16. A new era for Azure Files: Bigger, faster, better!
17. General availability of Tomcat and Java SE on App Service on Linux.
18. Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Database for PostgreSQL in a preview.
19. Advanced Threat Protection for Azure Database for MySQL in a preview.
20. Azure Sphere is here - public preview and dev kits now available.
21. Introducing private networking connection for Cloud SQL.
22. Announcing Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for App Engine flex and second generation runtimes.