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GCP – In the changing world of healthcare, Hackensack Meridian Health brings Chrome Enterprise on the journey
Editor’s note:Today’s post is by Mark Eimer, Senior Vice President, associate CIO, and Chief Technology Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), a New Jersey network of 17 hospitals with 36,000 employees. Hackensack Meridian Health has made significant progress in its cloud adoption journey by standardizing on Chrome browser, Google Workspace, and Chrome OS with Citrix and […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto October Quarterly Updates
On October 19th, Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions. Corretto 11.0.13 and 8.312 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto 17 updates will be available shortly after the release is tagged in the OpenJDK 17 repository. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More […]
AWS – Bulk Editing of OpsItems in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
AWS Systems Manager now supports bulk editing of work items within OpsCenter. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud Spanner connectivity using JetBrains IDEs
If you are a developer working on an application backed by Google Cloud Spanner and use an IDE from the JetBrains suite of developer tools, we’ve got some good news for you! You can now browse the database schema and query data stored in Cloud Spanner directly from your JetBrains IDE. In this post, I […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift (Preview)
We are announcing the public preview of AWS Data Exchange for Amazon Redshift, a new feature that enables customers to find and subscribe to third-party data in AWS Data Exchange that they can query in an Amazon Redshift data warehouse in minutes. Data providers can list and offer products containing Amazon Redshift data sets in the AWS […]
AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now supports Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is now supported by the AWS Pricing Calculator. Estimate the cost of CloudFront workloads, which primarily includes costs associated with data transfer and requests. Apart from providing tips to estimate the number of requests based on your data transfer volume, the calculator gives you a granular view of costs across different usage tiers […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers advanced filtering for Managed Instances
Fleet Manager, a feature in AWS Systems Manager (SSM) that helps IT Admins streamline and scale their remote server management processes, now enhances the reporting and filtering experience for Managed Instances. This new feature presents filtering options applicable to your data, taking out the guess work. You no longer need to memorize and manually enter […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 14 RC 1 now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
PostgreSQL 14 RC 1 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to test the release candidate version of PostgreSQL 14 on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports rich text rendering of IMSC 1.1 and TTML subtitle text
AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports rich text rendering of IMSC 1.1 text profile subtitles and the TTML subtitle format. Both of these formats allow detailed formatting that includes text size, position, justification, color, styling, and shadowing. For many viewers, on screen subtitles are an important part of the viewing experience and this feature gives subtitle authors more creative […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon WorkSpaces API to create new updated images with latest AWS drivers
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs which you can use to keep your WorkSpaces images up-to-date with the latest AWS drivers. Previously, WorkSpaces images were kept up to date by manually launching a WorkSpaces instance, installing driver updates and creating a new image. With this launch, you can use WorkSpaces APIs to know if latest AWS […]