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GCP – Sarah Masotti has worked and traveled across 60 countries — here’s how she channels her own experiences to help customers transform their businesses
Editor’s note: Sarah Masotti is a Digital Transformation Lead at Google Cloud, where she works with customers like Unilever, British Telecom, HSBC, and WPP. She excels at identifying innovation opportunities, and bringing them to life through Google’s products and services, and change management and transformation programmes, all with an innovative mindset. What is the coolest […]
GCP – 4 low-effort, high-impact ways to cut your GKE costs (and your carbon footprint)
Controlling cloud costs is always top-of-mind for organizations. But how? It can be difficult to surface wasted resources and figure out how best to optimize them without sacrificing performance or availability. Here on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) team, we’re eager to help in any way we can. And after participating in some recent capacity […]
Azure – Generally available: Static Web Apps support for skipping API builds
You can skip the default API builds via GitHub Actions and Azure pipelines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Static Web Apps support for stable URLs for preview environments
Use stable URLs with Azure Static Web Apps preview environments. Read More for the details.
AWS – Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support is generally available for Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Starting today, you can now use Amazon Polly inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), instead of connecting over the internet, which allows you to have better control over your […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.17.2 and increased connection limits for ActiveMQ
Amazon MQ now provides support for ActiveMQ 5.17.2, which includes several fixes and enhancements to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.17.1. The default connection limits for ActiveMQ brokers on Amazon MQ has been increased to 300 connections per transport protocol for mq.t2.micro and mq.t3.micro broker types and 2,000 connections per transport protocol for all other supported broker […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now supports the Murmur3Partioner
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports the Murmur3Partitioner. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches support for the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0
AWS Security Hub now supports automated security checks aligned to the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark version 1.4.0 requirements, Level 1 and 2 (CIS v1.4.0). Security Hub’s CIS v1.4.0 standard includes up to 39 automated rules that conduct continuous checks against 38 CIS v1.4.0 requirements across 8 AWS services. The CIS v1.4.0 […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id, R6id instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation instances: all […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 14 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 14 more resource types for services including AWS IoT Events, AWS Cloud Map, Amazon EventBridge, EC2 Image Builder, AWS DataSync, AWS Glue, Amazon Route 53, and Amazon Elastic Container Registry. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1]. Read More for the details.