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GCP – Fairygodboss: Celebrating the success of AAPI founders with Google Cloud
May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month — a time for us to come together to celebrate and remember the important people and history of Asian and Pacific Island heritage. This feature highlights founder Georgene Huang and how her startup Fairygodboss uses easy to use Google Cloud tools to grow and innovate. Coming from […]

AWS – Introducing AWS Copilot v1.7 with support for AWS App Runner and more
Today, AWS Copilot announced the general availability of version 1.7, which enables you to easily deploy request-driven web services with AWS App Runner in addition to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). AWS App Runner is a fully managed container application service that makes it easy for customers without any prior containers or infrastructure experience to […]

AWS – AWS Announces AWS App Runner
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) company, announces the general availability of AWS App Runner, a fully managed container application service that makes it easy for customers without any prior containers or infrastructure experience to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications and APIs in just a few clicks. Customers simply provide […]

AWS – AWS License Manager now provides historical license usage reporting
AWS License Manager now allows you to take periodic snapshots of your license usage across all your AWS accounts and store these reports directly into your S3 bucket. You can use these reports to track your historical license usage, manage compliance, and reduce licensing spend by accounting for maximum license usage. You can enable, disable, […]

AWS – Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.20
Kubernetes is rapidly evolving, with frequent feature releases and bug fixes. Highlights of the Kubernetes 1.20 release include RuntimeClass and Process ID Limits reaching stable status, API Priority and Fairness being enabled by default, and kubectl debug reaching beta status. Learn more about Kubernetes version 1.20 in the Kubernetes project release notes. Read More […]

AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Apache Kafka TLS and Authentication
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded its integrity and confidentiality of secure communication to Apache Kafka self-managed and Amazon MSK endpoints. Using AWS DMS with improved Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication and encryption, you can now use SSL encryption and authentication or SASL-SSL to secure Kafka endpoint connections. This security enhancement addresses the […]

AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS IoT Core Device Advisor
AWS IoT Core Device Advisor, a fully managed cloud-based test capability for validating IoT devices, is now generally available in us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, and ap-northeast-1 regions. Now, developers can use pre-built tests provided by Device Advisor to validate that their IoT devices implement best practices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core. Device […]

AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer Now Supports Exporting Amazon EBS and AWS Lambda Recommendations to Amazon S3
Today, we are pleased to announce that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports exporting Amazon EBS volume and AWS Lambda function memory size recommendations as csv files to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Key Vault SLA raised to 99.99%
Key Vault is now being offered at a 99.99% availability SLA, an improvement over our previous 99.9% SLA. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Maps Platform Announcements from Google I/O 2021
Earlier today, the first ever virtual Google I/O developer conference kicked off, welcoming developers from all over the globe to learn, share, and hear announcements from across Google. Today, we’re excited to recap the latest news about Google Maps Platform, fresh from the developer keynote. WebGL-powered maps features beta release As part of Cloud-based maps […]