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GCP – TapClicks double-clicks on Google Cloud to partner on unified data management and marketing operations
Editor’s note: In this blog post we learn how TapClicks migrated to Google Cloud to offer their marketing customers a unified platform for data management, operations, insights, and analysis. TapClicks is a smart marketing cloud, powered by data, that unifies our customer’s marketing. By choosing to migrate our core applications last year to Google Cloud, […]

AWS – Now easily enable Amazon DevOps Guru across your organization with Quick Setup
Today, AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup announces support for Amazon DevOps Guru, enabling you to set up Amazon DevOps Guru across the accounts and Regions in your organization with a few clicks. By setting up Amazon DevOps Guru across your organization, you can identify any operational issue long before it impacts your customers. Read More […]

GCP – Federal CISO Chris DeRusha to headline Google Cloud Government Security Summit
The past 16 months served up unprecedented cybersecurity challenges to government agencies. First, the cyber-attack landscape expanded exponentially with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and pivot to remote work. Then came a rapid succession of high-profile attacks – SolarWinds, Hafnium, the Colonial Pipeline, and JBS Foods, to name several – that threatened national security, […]

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports central monitoring of VPC routes for AWS Network Firewall
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager allows customers to centrally monitor route configurations for AWS Network Firewall, and get alerts on routes non-compliant with their configuration. With this launch, customers can now monitor VPC routes to ensure traffic egressing through Internet Gateway (IGW) is inspected by the Network Firewall deployed by Firewall Manager in each VPC. […]

GCP – Build a platform with KRM: Part 5 – Manage hosted resources from Kubernetes
This is the fifth and final post in a multi-part series about the Kubernetes Resource Model. Check out parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 to learn more. In part 2 of this series, we learned how the Kubernetes Resource Model works, and how the Kubernetes control plane takes action to ensure that your desired resource […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is now available in Sydney, Tokyo, and Oregon AWS regions
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions, extending the footprint to 5 AWS Regions. This is in addition to the IoT Core for LoRaWAN availability in US East (N. Virginia) and EU (Ireland) AWS regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS lowers data processing charges for AWS PrivateLink
Effective July 1, 2021, AWS is reducing data processing charges for VPC Interface Endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink). The new tiered pricing will reduce the costs for accessing high-volume, data intensive services over AWS PrivateLink. AWS PrivateLink enables customers to access AWS services or any other service hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable […]

AWS – AWS Amplify allows you to mix and match authorization modes in DataStore
With today’s release, Amplify DataStore now supports multiple authorization modes, making it easy for developers to control how their users can access app data. DataStore provides frontend app developers the ability to build real-time apps with offline capabilities by storing data on-device (web browser or mobile device) and automatically synchronizing data to the cloud and […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Application Manager now supports full lifecycle management of AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks
Today, AWS announces a new feature of Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, which customers can use to manage and provision their AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks without leaving the Application Manager console. With Application Manager, customers can discover and manage applications across multiple AWS services like AWS Launch Wizard, AWS Service Catalog […]
AWS – New digital course: Amazon S3 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
AWS Training and Certification is pleased to introduce a free digital course: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. This advanced, 50-minute course will help you learn how to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for your Amazon S3 implementation. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations […]