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AWS – Amazon MQ for Active MQ is now available in AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD
Amazon MQ for ActiveMQ is now available in a total of 22 regions, with the addition of the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Macie adds CloudWatch logging for job status and health monitoring of sensitive data discovery jobs
Amazon Macie now publishes job status and health logs to CloudWatch, providing you with continuous visibility into operations of your sensitive data discovery jobs to quickly identify, investigate, and address errors. Read More for the details.

AWS – New datasets available in the Registry of Open Data on AWS from United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, iNaturalist.org, and others
Twenty eight new or updated datasets from the US Geological Survey, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, iNaturalist.org, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), and others are available in the Registry of Open Data on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the following categories. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation Solution adds support for AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard
AWS Security Hub Automated Response & Remediation solution supports 11 new AWS Foundational Security Best Practices controls. Read More for the details.
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GCP – Announcing Google Cloud 2021 Summits [frequently updated]
There are a lot of great things happening at Google Cloud, and we’re delighted to share new product announcements, customer perspectives, interactive demos, and more through Google Cloud Summit series, a collection of digital events taking place over the coming months. Join us to learn more about how Google Cloud is transforming businesses in various […]

GCP – Shifting gears: How mixi expanded from mobile games to bicycle racing with TIPSTAR
How do you reinvent entertainment for a completely new audience? For Japanese social network giant mixi, the challenge was to take the successes they’ve had with mobile games like Monster Strike, now with more than over 54 million worldwide users, and apply it to broadcasting Keirin bicycle races. As Koki Kimura, president of mixi, explains […]

GCP – A Google Cloud block storage options cheat sheet
“Where do virtual machines store data so they can access it when they restart?”—We need storage that is persistent in nature. That’s where Persistent Disks come in. Persistent Disk is a high performance block storage service that uses solid state drive (SSD) or hard disk drive (HDD) disks. These disks store data in blocks and […]

GCP – How Google Cloud is enabling vaccine equity
As multiple COVID-19 vaccines are distributed worldwide, government leaders are now acutely focused on vaccinating as many people as quickly as possible. But to effectively serve entire populations–including underserved and elderly communities–government organizations must provide constituents with a range of sign up options to ensure that no one is left behind. Google Cloud is already […]

Azure – Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
Use managed identities now to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication. Read More for the details.
AWS – Now Use Tags to Track and Allocate Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks Costs
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare data, as well as build, train, and deploy models. With a single click, data scientists and ML developers can quickly spin […]