This week on The Cloud Pod, the team is getting ready to share their predictions for re:Invent, and that may or may not involve greasing the palms of some Amazon employees.
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This weekโs highlights * ๐จ Amazon is becoming a connoisseur of international cuisine with its new region. * ๐จ Google is borderline nefarious in the scientific community. * ๐จ Azure adds a long overdue feature.
Amazon Web Services: Spicing Things Up * ๐ AWS announces the new Hyderabad region in India will open in mid-2022. Weโre surprised at how long this took to happen. * ๐ AWS launches managed messaging service Amazon MQ for Rabbit MQ. Only took three years of Justin whinging. * ๐คท 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. * ๐ 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! * ๐๏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. * ๐ 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 * ๐คก Google Cloud SQL now supports Postgres 13. Next up, Google announces deprecation of Postgres 13โฆ Just kidding. * ๐ GCP launches a unified console for document processing with Document AI platform. For anyone who hates data entry, youโll love this! * ๐ฒ 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