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GCP – Optimize your user experience with these Place Autocomplete tips
Place Autocomplete is one of the best features you can add to your app for a more location-aware user experience. With a few lines of code, you can tailor the experience to your users’ needs and context for time-saving type-ahead predictions. We’ve recently published a few videos to help you customize Place Autocomplete so it […]

AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts Events now available in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports the ability to monitor your S3 on Outposts events via Amazon CloudWatch. You can now use CloudWatch Events to create a rule for any S3 on Outposts API Event to get notified via all supported CloudWatch targets such as Amazon SNS, and Amazon SQS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Virtual Machines DCsv2-series now available in public preview in Azure Government
Azure Government customers can build secure, enclave-based applications to protect code and data while it’s in use, in a dedicated cloud that meets stringent government security and compliance requirements. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Amplify now orchestrates multiple Amazon DynamoDB GSI updates in a single deployment
The Amplify CLI now gives developers the ability to make multiple global secondary index (GSI) updates to their Amazon DynamoDB tables in a single deployment, enabling faster and safer data model iterations. AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend web and mobile developers create cloud backends and connect them to their […]

AWS – Review last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM roles
IAM helps customers with capabilities to analyze access and achieve least privilege. When you are working on new permissions for your teams, you can use IAM Access Analyzer policy generation to create a policy based on your access activity and set fine-grained permissions. To analyze and refine existing permissions, you can use last accessed information […]

GCP – Bigtable vs. BigQuery: What’s the difference?
Many people wonder if they should use BigQuery or Bigtable. While these two services have a number of similarities, including “Big” in their names, they support very different use cases in your big data ecosystem. At a high level,Bigtable is a NoSQL wide-column database. It’s optimized for low latency, large numbers of reads and writes, […]

AWS – Introducing Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework v2.2
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure factory equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. This solution is a framework to send equipment telemetry data to your AWS account, allowing you to leverage AWS Services to conduct analysis on your equipment data instead of managing underlying infrastructure […]

Azure – Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacenter region in Malaysia
The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia. Read More for the details.

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – IoT Resource Monitoring Framework
IoT Resource Monitoring Framework is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Trek10, an AWS IoT Competency Partner. IoT Resource Monitoring Framework gives companies clear and constant visibility into their IoT device and backend operations from a single pane. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now provides configurable naming during Landing Zone setup
Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower that provides you the ability to customize your landing zone naming. You can retain the names that AWS Control Tower recommends for the organizational units (OUs) and core accounts, or you can modify these names during the initial landing zone set up process. Read More […]