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AWS – Amazon Rekognition launches tagging support for collections, stream processors, and Custom Labels
You can now assign tags to Amazon Rekognition resources such as collections, stream processors, and Custom Labels models. Tags are key value pairs which enable you to control access to your AWS resources. You can easily identify, classify, or categorize your Amazon Rekognition resources as you create them, giving you a convenient way to ensure […]

AWS – AWS Chatbot now expands coverage of AWS Services monitored through Amazon EventBridge
AWS Chatbot customers can now receive notifications in chat channels from an expanded range of AWS services through Amazon EventBridge. AWS Chatbot allows users to monitor and interact with AWS resources directly from Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. Read More for the details.

GCP – Accelerate your Google Cloud transformation with new NetApp solutions
Today’s enterprises require agility and adaptability to meet business and customer needs. For many businesses, that’s come to mean transitioning to cloud services. In fact, an estimated 85% of organizations have a majority of their workloads in the cloud1, including virtual desktops, Windows-based workloads, critical SAP applications, or backup and disaster recovery solutions. Since 2018, […]

GCP – Faster, cheaper, greener? Pick the Google Cloud region that’s right for you
When it comes to sustainability, we get more done when we move together. That’s why Google Cloud partners with nonprofits, research organizations, governments, and businesses to build technology and tools to accelerate meaningful change. Technologies like machine learning are proving to be invaluable for tackling unique challenges like identifying species in biodiversity and restoration projects […]

GCP – Proxyless gRPC adds support for advanced traffic management features
For developers building cloud-native microservices, an increasingly common choice is to use gRPC, a high-performance, open-source RPC framework that you can use with Traffic Director for your service mesh. Last year, the gRPC community introduced support for the xDS APIs, bringing service mesh capabilities to proxyless gRPC services. With the most recent release of gRPC, […]

GCP – Optimize your user experience with these Place Autocomplete tips
Place Autocomplete is one of the best features you can add to your app for a more location-aware user experience. With a few lines of code, you can tailor the experience to your users’ needs and context for time-saving type-ahead predictions. We’ve recently published a few videos to help you customize Place Autocomplete so it […]

AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts Events now available in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports the ability to monitor your S3 on Outposts events via Amazon CloudWatch. You can now use CloudWatch Events to create a rule for any S3 on Outposts API Event to get notified via all supported CloudWatch targets such as Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it’s in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deployment
The Amplify CLI now gives developers the ability to make multiple global secondary index (GSI) updates to their Amazon DynamoDB tables in a single deployment, enabling faster and safer data model iterations. AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend web and mobile developers create cloud backends and connect them to their […]
AWS – Review last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM roles
IAM helps customers with capabilities to analyze access and achieve least privilege. When you are working on new permissions for your teams, you can use IAM Access Analyzer policy generation to create a policy based on your access activity and set fine-grained permissions. To analyze and refine existing permissions, you can use last accessed information […]