AWS introduces new kernel panic API trigger, Azure storage gets complicated, and Google’s big query gets a terraform module.

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General News

Alibaba blows past earnings estimates cloud business hits 4.5b run rate

Digital Ocean launches new managed MySQL and Redis Database Services

AWS

New – Trigger a Kernel Panic to Diagnose Unresponsive EC2 Instances

Amazon Prime Day 2019 – Powered by AWS

AWS App Mesh now supports routing based on HTTP headers and specifying route priorities

Easily enable AWS Systems Manager capabilities with Quick Setup

Amazon ECS Now Supports Per-Container Swap Space Parameters

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Amazon Redshift now recommends distribution keys for improved query performance

Google

Skip the heavy lifting: Moving Redshift to BigQuery easily

Shining a light on your costs: New billing features from Google Cloud

Introducing the BigQuery Terraform Module

Azure

Improving Azure Virtual Machines resiliency with Project Tardigrade

Geo Zone Redundant Storage in Azure now in preview

Announcing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Storage

Azure Archive Storage expanded capabilities: faster, simpler, better

Microsoft buys Java specialist jClarity to make Azure workloads run smoother

Azure Security Center single click remediation and Azure Firewall JIT support

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Amazon CloudFront announces new Edge location in Israel

Alexa for Business customers can now manage how their data improves Amazon’s Services

AWS CodeBuild adds Support for Amazon Linux 2

AWS Site-to-Site VPN now Supports Certificate Authentication

Amazon Athena now supports querying data from Amazon S3 Requester Pays Buckets

Amazon chime adds call history for voice and video calls

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for slow peter query logging

AWS RoboMaker now supports log-based simulation, event driven simulation termination, and simulation event tagging

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports 8.0.16 now making it only 1 revision behind

Announcing the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions