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AWS – AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the South America (São Paulo) region
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) is now available in the South America (São Paulo) region. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Region Table. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Principal Mapping
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to build an open cloud datalake with Delta Lake, Presto & Dataproc Metastore
Organizations today build data lakes to process, manage and store large amounts of data that originate from different sources both on-premise and on cloud. As part of their data lake strategy, organizations want to leverage some of the leading OSS frameworks such as Apache Spark for data processing, Presto as a query engine and Open […]
Azure – Azure Sphere version 21.07 Update 1 is now available for evaluation
Participate in the retail evaluation of 21.07 Update 1 now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period for 21.07 continues for 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
GCP – New This Month in Data Analytics: Simple, Sophisticated, and Secure
June is the month that holds the summer solstice, and some of us in the northern hemisphere get to enjoy the longest days of sunshine out of the entire year. We used all the hours we could in June to deliver a flurry of new features across BigQuery, Dataflow, Data Fusion, and more. Let’s take […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for MySQL launches IAM database authentication
When enterprise IT administrators design their data systems, security is among the most important considerations they have to make. Security is key to defining where data is stored and how users access it. Traditionally, IT administrators have managed user access to systems like SQL databases through issuing users a separate, dedicated username and password. Although […]
GCP – TapClicks double-clicks on Google Cloud to partner on unified data management and marketing operations
Editor’s note: In this blog post we learn how TapClicks migrated to Google Cloud to offer their marketing customers a unified platform for data management, operations, insights, and analysis. TapClicks is a smart marketing cloud, powered by data, that unifies our customer’s marketing. By choosing to migrate our core applications last year to Google Cloud, […]
AWS – Now easily enable Amazon DevOps Guru across your organization with Quick Setup
Today, AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup announces support for Amazon DevOps Guru, enabling you to set up Amazon DevOps Guru across the accounts and Regions in your organization with a few clicks. By setting up Amazon DevOps Guru across your organization, you can identify any operational issue long before it impacts your customers. Read More […]
GCP – Federal CISO Chris DeRusha to headline Google Cloud Government Security Summit
The past 16 months served up unprecedented cybersecurity challenges to government agencies. First, the cyber-attack landscape expanded exponentially with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and pivot to remote work. Then came a rapid succession of high-profile attacks – SolarWinds, Hafnium, the Colonial Pipeline, and JBS Foods, to name several – that threatened national security, […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager allows customers to centrally monitor route configurations for AWS Network Firewall, and get alerts on routes non-compliant with their configuration. With this launch, customers can now monitor VPC routes to ensure traffic egressing through Internet Gateway (IGW) is inspected by the Network Firewall deployed by Firewall Manager in each VPC. […]