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GCP – How to prepare for — and ace — Google’s Associate Cloud Engineer exam
Do you want to get out of the server room and into the cloud? Now’s the time to sign up for our Cloud Engineer Learning Path — now with the newly refreshed Preparing for the Associate Cloud Engineer certification course — and start working toward your Associate Cloud Engineer certification. Earning your Associate Cloud Engineer […]

GCP – Google Cloud and MongoDB Atlas expand their partnership
As the volume and velocity of data grows daily, business success depends on the ability to manage it effectively and transform it into actionable insights. Since 2019, Google Cloud and MongoDB have worked together to give businesses the secure, global, and highly performant infrastructure, the sophisticated data intelligence, and the developer-centric tools they need to […]

GCP – Enexor builds a clean energy future for communities worldwide with help from Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Earth Day reminds us that we all can contribute to creating a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable future. Google Cloud is excited to celebrate innovative startup companies developing new technology and driving sustainable change. On this year’s Earth Day we’re highlighting Enexor BioEnergy and their initiative to produce clean, sustainable energy from plastic […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune now offers a free trial
You can now try Amazon Neptune for free with a 1-month free trial. First-time Neptune customers can get started with Neptune for free for 30 days, using up to 750 hours of the T3.medium instance, 10 million I/O requests, 1 GB of storage, and 1 GB of backup storage. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Macie adds support for discovering more types of sensitive data
Three new managed data identifiers have been added to Amazon Macie to expand its capabilities for discovering and identifying the locations of HTTP Basic Authentication Headers, HTTP Cookies, and JSON Web Tokens present in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Knowing if and where these types of data are present in your S3 storage helps […]

AWS – EKS add-ons support for the OpenTelemetry Operator is now generally available
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using the Amazon EKS console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and EKS API to install and manage the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Operator. This launch enables a simplified experience for instrumenting your applications running on Amazon EKS to send metrics and traces to multiple monitoring services […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Box Connector to enable search on documents in Box Enterprise repository
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. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Box connector to index and search documents from Box. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud launches new models for more accurate Speech AI
With voice continuing to emerge as the new frontier in human-computer interaction, many enterprises may seek to level up their technology and present consumers with speech recognition systems that more reliably and accurately recognize what their users are saying. Think about it: higher speech recognition quality can enable people to talk to their applications and […]

AWS – Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ version 5.16.4
Amazon MQ now provides support for ActiveMQ 5.16.4. This update to ActiveMQ contains several fixes and enhancements compared to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.16.3 Read More for the details.
AWS – New data source connectors generally available for Amazon Athena
Today we are announcing the general availability of 10 new data source connectors for Amazon Athena. With Athena, you can query data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need for ETL scripts to pre-process or copy data. This release expands the number of data sources you can query with Athena […]