This week we talk about Athena Workgroups,  Spotinst AWS partnership, Spatial Anchors in Azure and Microsoft and Google handle several employee issues.

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Athena now supports Workgroups to segment/isolated data

Azure has GA’s several new features to create more reliable event driven applications in Azure

Spotinst Announces partnership with AWS

Google Rethinks Federated Identity with Continuous Access evaluation protocol

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Azure Announces Spatial anchors for collaboration and mixed reality apps

Microsoft Workers protest army contract

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says company will not walk away from contract

Google ends forced Arbitration for Employees –

EFS now supports tag on create – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-efs-now-supports-tag-on-create/

AWS Code commit now supports programmatic creations of commits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/aws-codecommit-supports-programmatic-creation-of-commits-contain/

Performance Insights now supports counter metrics for RDS Postgres, RDS Mysql and Aurora Mysql – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/Performance-Insights-Counter-Metrics-MS-PG-AMS/

Amazon Ec2 Fleets now let you increase target capacity limits – https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/02/amazon-EC2-fleet-now-lets-you-increase-the-fleets-target-capacity-limits/

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager adds support for shorter backup intervals –