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AWS – Now available credential profile support for AWS SSO and Assume Role with MFA in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
With this new release of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, customers can use federated credentials, multi-factor authentication (MFA) and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to connect their IDEs to AWS. Read More for the details.

GCP – Choosing the right orchestrator in Google Cloud
What is orchestration? Orchestration often refers to the automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and services. In the context of service-oriented architectures, orchestration can range from simply executing a single service at a specific time and day, to a more sophisticated approach of automating and monitoring multiple services over longer periods of time, […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.10
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.10 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon Redshift native console integration with partners
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports native integration with select AWS Partners from within the Amazon Redshift console. With the new console partner integration, you can accelerate data onboarding and create valuable business insights in minutes by integrating with select partner solutions. With these solutions, you can bring data from applications like […]

AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Asynchronous Support
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports Asynchronous Search. Asynchronous Search lets you submit a query that gets executed asynchronously, monitor the progress of the request, and retrieve results at a later stage. You can also retrieve partial results as they become available even before the search has fully completed. Once the search completes, it can be […]

AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in the Philippines and Brunei
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at customer datacenters and on-premises locations in the Philippines and Brunei. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2 environments
You can now launch AWS Cloud9 development environments with Amazon Linux 2 (AL2). Amazon Linux 2 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. AWS Cloud9 is a […]

GCP – Making meetings more immersive, inclusive, and productive with Google Meet
Virtual meetings have been at the center of work’s global transformation this past year. Long before the pandemic, they played a crucial role for distributed teams, but now they’ve become the glue that holds the work day together for countless teams and organizations that used to share a physical workplace. With the hybrid model emerging […]

GCP – New Redis Enterprise for Anthos and GKE
Among forward-looking developers, the open-source Redis in-memory data structure store is a popular option for anyone looking for a database, cache, and message broker. At Google Cloud Next 2019, Redis Labs, the home of Redis announced Redis Enterprise, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) running on Google Cloud. This week at RedisConf 2021, we are building […]
GCP – Solving for more sustainable and resilient value chains
The past year highlighted the fragility of global supply chains and logistics networks and the need to adapt to rapidly changing business models and customer preferences. The importance of flexible, resilient and sustainable customer value chains is critical as organizations recalibrate to a post-pandemic world. Global supply chains are also subject to environmental risks. In […]