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GCP – What no-code automation looks like with AppSheet
As developers, we talk about automation in the context of technology as often as your friends might talk about Bitcoin — and for good reason: automation has spanned the farthest corners of cloud computing, from infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and DevOps to machine learning and even billing management. It’s making life easier for infrastructure […]

AWS – You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity
You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane APIs—GetRecords and GetShardIterator—to monitor and investigate item-level changes in your DynamoDB tables. Previously, you could use CloudTrail to log DynamoDB Streams control-plane activity (and not data-plane activity) on your DynamoDB tables. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite
Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions
Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov Read More for the details.

AWS – Now visualize and report patch compliance using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager
IT admins and security teams can now view, analyze, and report on the patch compliance of their environment from a single dashboard using Patch Manager. The Patch Manager dashboard provides you with enhanced reporting capabilities and integrates key patching information such as non-compliant instances and instances never scanned for patches into a single pane of […]

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, […]