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GCP – Google Cloud Celebrates International Women’s Day
Today, Google Cloud celebrates International Women’s Day #IWD2021 and stands with those who #ChooseToChallenge inequality, call out bias, and question stereotypes. Together, we can forge an inclusive world that accurately reflects the people and communities who live in it. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. […]

GCP – Healthcare distributor FFF Enterprises improves performance 7x with SAP on Google Cloud
When getting the right product to the right person is a matter of life and death, you don’t want to have to worry about how well your ERP system is performing. That’s why FFF Enterprises, Inc. (FFF), a leading supplier of critical-care biopharmaceuticals, plasma products, and vaccines—including those used to protect against COVID-19—chose to migrate […]

AWS – Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android
Today, we are announcing first-class support for Kotlin in Amplify Android. Amplify Android is part of AWS Amplify, a set of libraries, tools, and services that help frontend web and mobile developers build secure, scalable, full-stack applications. Kotlin is a popular programming language commonly used by Android developers, among others. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard
AWS Security Hub has released 25 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard. These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon API Gateway (APIGateway.1), Amazon Cloudfront (CloudFront.1-4), Amazon DynamoDB (DynamoDB.1-3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2.9-10), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS.2), Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES.2-3), Amazon RDS (RDS.9-10), Amazon Redshift […]

GCP – Celebrating International Women’s Day with Google Maps Platform Leaders
Today is International Women’s Day and we’re kicking off the celebration by highlighting 8 Google leaders who have made significant contributions to the work we deliver here across the Google Maps and Google Maps Platform teams. These women not only lead teams at Google, but have had rich careers as tech trailblazers across many technology […]

GCP – A Guide to Data Protection Offerings in Google Cloud
Cloud adoption has become a team sport. It started as an exciting effort led by forward-thinking developers, and it has turned into a global IT directive across countries and industries. Whether their goal is to migrate SAP workloads or to build next-generation analytics, thousands of technologists are learning how to work together to accelerate the […]

GCP – Women in leadership: A conversation on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, and in recognition of its importance to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we brought together a panel of women in leadership at Google Cloud to share their perspectives on why proactively focusing on DE&I in the workplace, and together with our partners, is so critical—especially right now. […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website
Amazon Connect Chat now provides an out-of-the-box chat widget, making it easy to begin servicing your customers through chat in just a few clicks. The widget allows you to design the customer experience to align with your corporate branding by customizing the font and color scheme in the user interface. Once configured, the widget can […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive launches Workflow Wizard
AWS Elemental MediaLive now offers a Workflow Wizard to help you create a live streaming workflow in just a few minutes. The Workflow Wizard guides you through setting up a live streaming workflow using AWS Elemental MediaLive and other AWS services including AWS Elemental MediaStore, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. Read More for the details.