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AWS – Amazon S3 account-level block public access now extends to Lightsail buckets
Amazon Lightsail Object Storage provides you with the ability to store your static content such as images, videos or HTML files that can be used for your websites and applications. Effective immediately, the account-level block public access setting in Amazon S3 applies to buckets in the Lightsail object storage service. We are making this change to improve […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances are generally available. X2idn and X2iedn instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These new instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) […]
GCP – HIMSS 2022: Improving health through data interoperability and natural language processing
The last two years have accelerated the healthcare and life sciences industry’s adoption of technology by tenfold. From the rapid speed of vaccine development to the adoption of telehealth, Healthcare now has an opportunity to build upon the advances and innovations of the past two years and deliver even greater patient care. This week at […]
GCP – Chrome’s ongoing efforts to keep enterprises safe
Security and the way we’ve been able to advance user protections over the years is hands down one of my favorite topics when it comes to Chrome. I’ve been on the Chrome team for over 14 years and have seen the browser evolve to become a critical tool that helps people get work done at […]
GCP – Mapping carbon pollution globally with satellites
As we continue to explore climate solutions using machine learning in our People & Planet AI YouTube series, we have been blown away by an amazing project called Climate TRACE. It is a collaborative data sharing effort across 50+ organizations with the intention of helping the public (for free) to view where carbon pollution is […]
AWS – Amazon MSK Connect now supports external secrets and configuration with config providers
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now allows custom configuration providers for MSK Connect. With this capability, you can store secrets with providers such as Amazon Secrets Manager and avoid storing passwords and other credentials in connector and worker configuration properties. You can supply any Apache Kafka compatible ConfigProvider as part of an MSK Connect […]
GCP – Introducing Community Security Analytics
As more organizations embrace the principles of Autonomic Security Operations, we continue to research and develop new initiatives that can simplify the adoption of a continuous detection and continuous response (CD/CR) workflow for Security Operations teams. To this end, we’re excited to announce Community Security Analytics (CSA), a set of open-sourced queries and rules designed […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M6i and R6i instances
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Purview workflows
You can now manage approvals for business terms or self-service data access requests for your entire data estate without having to use manual controls like emails or worksheets. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Partners driving Retail and Commerce Innovation
With strains on the supply chain and other pandemic-driven economic challenges intensifying, retailers this year face some of their biggest mandates to date: Increasing operational efficiency, delivering a seamless online and in-store experience, and staying one step ahead of rapidly changing customer preferences while offering exceptional customer service. This is why Google’s internal media teams […]