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AWS – AWS Control Tower now provides updated support for AWS best practices and Region deny
Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower to align AWS Control Tower with recent updates to the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices. As new best practices and controls are identified and developed, it is periodically necessary for AWS Control Tower to add functionality to ensure that your AWS accounts and workloads are in […]
AWS – AWS Managed Services now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US), giving customers in both the public and commercial sectors and their partners the benefit of AWS Managed Services’ operational capabilities in the GovCloud region. Read More for the details.
GCP – COLOPL, Minna Bank and 7-Eleven Japan use Cloud Spanner to solve digital transformation challenges
Today’s consumers expect amazing feats of speed and service delivered through easy-to-use apps and personalized interactions. Modern conveniences, like buy-online and pick-up in store, instant digital payments, and real-time ride sharing requests, have taught consumers that their experience is paramount—no matter how big the company, how complex the problem, or how regulated the industry. At […]
GCP – Healthcare Industry Trends 2022: Data empowers patients, researchers, partners
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to push the healthcare and life sciences industry in entirely new ways. In record time, we’ve witnessed public health officials, vaccine developers, equipment manufacturers, and essential workers take life saving actions—regularly putting their own lives at risk—to respond to the exceptional challenges of our time. Yet after all the turmoil and […]
GCP – Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Automation as a Force Multiplier
As we discussed in“Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Reducing toil”, your Security Operations Center (SOC) can learn lessons from Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) This means that applying software engineering practices to security operations challenges can radically improve an organization’s security. In this post, we discuss how you can leverage another core principle of SRE – automation […]
GCP – Black History Month: Celebrating the success of Black founders with Google Cloud: Acclinate
Editor’s note: February is Black History Month—a time for us to come together to celebrate the diverse set of experiences, perspectives and identities that make up the Black experience. Over the next few weeks, we will highlight Black-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. Today’s feature highlights Acclinate and its […]
GCP – Build, deploy, and scale ML models faster with Vertex AI’s new training features
Vertex AI includes over a dozen powerful MLOps tools in one unified interface, so you can build, deploy, and scale ML models faster. We’re constantly updating these tools, and we recently enhanced Vertex AI Training with an improved Local Mode to speed up your debugging process and Auto-Container Packaging to simplify cloud job submissions. In […]
AWS – Announcing a new AWS Billing console Home page experience
Starting today, the AWS Billing console has a new Home page experience, providing an at-a-glance view of your AWS charges. The AWS Billing console allows you to easily understand your AWS spend, view and pay invoices, manage billing preferences and tax settings, and access additional Cloud Financial Management services. The Billing console Home page helps […]
GCP – Introducing Compute Optimized VMs powered by AMD EPYC processors
Over the last six months, we launched 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs (formerly code-named “Milan”) across our Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) families. We introduced the Tau VM family, targeting scale-out workloads. Tau VMs are the leader both in terms of performance and workload total cost of ownership (TCO) from any leading provider available today. We also refreshed our […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Video supports 7 new languages and improves accuracy for text detection
Amazon Rekognition can detect and read text in an image or video, and return bounding boxes for each word found. On 11/17/2021, we launched support for 7 new languages in Amazon Rekognition text detection in images – Arabic, Russian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Amazon Rekognition can automatically detect and extract text in images […]