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This weekโ€™s highlights * ๐Ÿšจ Amazon is becoming a connoisseur of international cuisine with its new region. * ๐Ÿšจ Google is borderline nefarious in the scientific community. * ๐Ÿšจ Azure adds a long overdue feature.

Amazon Web Services: Spicing Things Up * ๐Ÿ› AWS announces the new Hyderabad region in India will open in mid-2022. Weโ€™re surprised at how long this took to happen. * ๐Ÿ•’ AWS launches managed messaging service Amazon MQ for Rabbit MQ. Only took three years of Justin whinging. * ๐Ÿคท Amazon now allows customers to proactively manage the EC2 Spot instance lifecycle using the new capacity rebalancing feature. Not sure this needed a whole blog about it. * ๐Ÿ‘Œ AWS announces AWS Gateway Load Balancing for easy deployment, scalability and high availability for Partner Appliances in the cloud. Thanks for helping us out, Amazon! * ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ AWS makes it easier to export DynamoDB table data to S3 with no code writing required. At lots less Lamda spackle, we like it. * ๐Ÿ› AWS announces a full set of features across the storage family as part of AWS Storage Day 2020. Buckets, buckets and more buckets.

Google Cloud Platform: Doing What It Does Best * ๐Ÿคก Google Cloud SQL now supports Postgres 13. Next up, Google announces deprecation of Postgres 13โ€ฆ Just kidding. * ๐Ÿ’– GCP launches a unified console for document processing with Document AI platform. For anyone who hates data entry, youโ€™ll love this! * ๐Ÿ˜ฒ Google is launching a public preview of a suite of fully managed AI tools designed to solve medical challenges. Google has been accused of us