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GCP – How Google Cloud secures the world with our people, platforms and products
In every industry, in every part of the world, cybersecurity concerns continue to grow in the wake of attacks on critical infrastructure and the software supply chain. Governments and businesses of all sizes recognize that they must do more to protect their employees, customers and citizens. But doing more of the same, like putting security […]

GCP – Announcing new tools to measure—and reduce—your environmental impact
Google Cloud is proud to support our customers with the cleanest cloud in the industry. For the past four years, we’ve matched 100% of our electricity use with renewable energy purchases, and we were the first company of our size to commit going even further by running on carbon-free energy 24/7 by 2030. As we […]

GCP – Turn data into value with a unified and open data cloud
Today at Google Cloud Next we are announcing innovations that will enable data teams to simplify how they work with data and derive value from it faster. These new solutions will help organizations build modern data architectures with real-time analytics to power innovative, mission-critical, data-driven applications. Too often, even the best minds in data are […]

GCP – Extending the value of Google Workspace to 3 billion users and counting
Over the past year, Google Workspace rapidly evolved to meet the needs of users as we collectively grappled with remote and hybrid work. First, we launched Google Workspace to commercial customers, which brought together the powerful individual apps people know and love into a single, integrated solution. Then we made Google Workspace available to nonprofits, […]

GCP – What’s new at Next
Google Cloud Next ‘21 has begun! We’ll be updating this blog post throughout Next with the latest announcements about Google Cloud products, solutions, and partnerships. Just bookmark this page to get all your Next news in one handy place. Cloud Everywhere Introducing Google Distributed Cloud—in your data center, at the edge, and in the cloudGoogle […]

GCP – Accelerate SAP innovation with Google Cloud Cortex Framework
Digital transformation is about gaining speed, agility, and efficiency. The faster and more easily your organization operates on a modern cloud platform, the sooner it can experience the benefits. Today, we are excited to introduce Google Cloud Cortex Framework, a foundation of endorsed solution reference templates and content for customers to accelerate business outcomes with […]

AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector launches new ML model for online transaction fraud detection
Amazon Fraud Detector is excited to announce the Transaction Fraud Insights model, a low-latency fraud detection machine learning (ML) model specifically designed to detect online card-not-present transaction fraud. Like other Amazon Fraud Detector models, Transaction Fraud Insights leverages more than 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon and AWS. The new Transaction Fraud Insights model […]

AWS – AWS announces a price reduction of up to 56% for Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning fraud predictions
We are excited to announce that we are lowering the price of Amazon Fraud Detector machine learning (ML) based fraud predictions. Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. Using ML under the hood and […]

AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector now supports event datasets
We are excited to announce event dataset storage for Amazon Fraud Detector. The new capability enables customers to easily send and store their production fraud data directly within Amazon Fraud Detector. Customers can use their event datasets to train machine learning (ML) models with higher predictive performance since the models can apply historical context to […]
AWS – Amazon RDS supports T3 instance type for MySQL and MariaDB databases in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
You can now launch the T3 database instance type when using Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.