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GCP – 9 things I freakin’ love about Google Cloud identity and environments
I’ve been at Google Cloud just a few weeks, following years of experience as an AWS Hero and building on other clouds. So last week’s Google Cloud Next–my first!—was a bit of a culture shock. On the GCP podcast, I used the word “intentionality” to describe what I’m seeing: a thoughtful, holistic approach that informs […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches SPICE Incremental Refresh
Amazon QuickSight announced the availability of Incremental Refresh, a feature in Amazon QuickSight that supports incrementally loading new data to SPICE data sets without needing to refresh the full set of data. SPICE is QuickSight’s Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine. Read More for the details.
GCP – Advance your future with learning sessions at the Government and Education Summit
Mark your calendars. TheGoogle Cloud Government and Education Summit is less than two weeks away – November 3-4. Reserve your spot for the online learning event at no cost. Organizations around the world are in great need of more workers who have robust IT skills and cloud expertise. The needs in the US alone are […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10
Version 21.10 is a feature update for the Azure Sphere OS, the SDK, supporting tools, and customer documentation. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault
Integration of Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy has reached general availability and is now ready for production use. Azure Policy provides the ability to place guardrails on Key Vault and its objects to ensure they are compliant with your organizations security recommendations and compliance regulations. It allows you to perform real time policy-based enforcement and on-demand compliance assessment of existing secrets in your Azure environment. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Private Peering
IPv6 support for ExpressRoute Private Peering is now generally available with ExpressRoute circuits and Azure environments globally. Read More for the details.
GCP – A closer look at locations in Eventarc
New locations in Eventarc Back in August, we announced more Eventarc locations (17 new regions, as well as 6 new dual-region and multi-region locations to be precise). This takes the total number of locations in Eventarc to more than 30. You can see the full list in the Eventarc locations page or by running gcloud […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations
AWS Migration Hub now helps you easily build a migration and modernization strategy for your applications running on-premises or in AWS. The new Strategy Recommendations feature is the ideal starting point to begin your transformation journey delivering prescriptive guidance on the optimal strategy and tools to help you migrate and modernize at scale. Strategy Recommendations […]
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports 10 Digit Long Code (10DLC) vetting
Amazon Pinpoint now includes the ability to perform an extended review of your company’s Ten-Digit Long Code (10DLC) registration details. This extended review process is called “vetting.” By vetting your company’s 10DLC registration, you can gain higher throughput rates for the messages that you send using 10DLC numbers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now provides a JDBC driver to connect from BI tools and execute SQL Queries
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Read More for the details.