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Azure – Public preview: Trusted launch support for Virtual Machines using Ephemeral OS disks
Trusted launch virtual machine (VM) support for VMs using Ephemeral OS disks improves the security of generation 2 VMs in Azure. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing two new HERE map styles for Amazon Location Service
Today, Amazon Location Service added two new HERE map styles for developers, HERE Explore and HERE Explore Truck. With HERE Explore, developers have a new global map that features roads, buildings, landmarks, and water features, including a fully designed map of Japan. With HERE Explore Truck, developers can now display a global map containing truck restrictions […]
AWS – Announcing AWS AppConfig Feature Flags General Availability
AWS is announcing general availability for AWS AppConfig Feature Flags. Feature flagging allows you to quickly roll out new features safely and with more confidence. AWS AppConfig is a feature of AWS Systems Manager. Read More for the details.
AWS – Automate visual inspection of product defects at the edge with Amazon Lookout for Vision – now generally available
Amazon Lookout for Vision is now generally available to AWS customers to use at the edge. You can deploy your trained Amazon Lookout for Vision models to a hardware device of your choice and run inference locally without any cloud dependencies. Your trained models can be deployed on any NVIDIA Jetson edge appliance or x86 compute platform […]
GCP – Customer Care portfolio: Flexible, scalable, robust support
Technical support is now more critical than ever. It’s crucial to keeping your business running smoothly, while rapidly adjusting to an increasingly hybrid workforce that needs to stay connected at all times. Although the scale may vary, organizations of all sizes face similar challenges. We launched the Cloud Customer Care portfolio, a significant evolution in […]
GCP – A handheld lab: How Cue Health is revolutionizing healthcare diagnostics for COVID and beyond
Editor’s note: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cue Health, inventors of the portable Cue Health Monitoring System and Cue COVID-19 At-Home Test, engaged Google Cloud to help quickly transform and scale their back-end operations. The company had largely been in research-and-Development mode since its founding in 2010 and needed to shift to commercial mode, […]
AWS – Announcing Windows support for containerd runtime on EKS starting with Kubernetes 1.21
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service now supports the containerd container runtime on Windows worker nodes. Containerd is a lightweight container runtime that manages the complete container lifecycle on its host system, from container image transfer to execution, as well as storage and network attachment. Customers with Windows workloads can now get similar performance, security, and stability benefits […]
AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports integration with AWS Chatbot
Starting today, you can receive AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alert notifications in Slack and Amazon Chime through AWS Chatbot. Integration with AWS Chatbot allows you to easily configure your cost anomaly alert subscriptions with a Slack or Amazon Chime chat channel. This allows you to receive individual AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alerts within your existing […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now supports on-premises workload orchestration on Windows OS
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports managing on-premises workloads running on a Windows operating system with Amazon ECS Anywhere. Amazon ECS Anywhere is a capability of Amazon ECS that enables customers to more easily run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs), bare metal servers, and other customer-managed infrastructure. Customers, who need to […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall achieves FedRAMP High compliance
AWS Network Firewall has achieved FedRAMP High authorization for the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use AWS Network Firewall to protect and control access to and from your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in these regions for workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level. Read More for the details.