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GCP – How to deploy Certificate Authority Service
Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is a highly available, scalable Google Cloud service that enables you to simplify, automate, and customize the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities (CA). As it nears general availability, we want to provide guidance on how to deploy the service in real world scenarios. Today we’re releasing a whitepaper […]
GCP – Leaf Space: Enabling next-gen satellites on Google Cloud
There is a revolution happening in the space industry. Spurred on by low rocket launch costs, component miniaturization, and digitalization, more than 15,000 satellites will launch over the next decade1—more than have been launched throughout the prior six decades—studying the Earth’s weather and environment, helping people and things communicate in remote locations, monitoring critical infrastructure, […]
GCP – Creating a SQL Server instance integrated with Active Directory using Google Cloud SQL
SQL Server instances in Google Cloud SQL now integrate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a pre-GA feature that you can try out for yourself right now. This post describes the basic steps required to create a SQL Server instance with this new functionality. If you’re looking for complete details see the official documentation. Create […]
GCP – Recovering global wildlife populations using ML
Wildlife provides critical benefits to support nature and people. Unfortunately, wildlife is slowly but surely disappearing from our planet and we lack reliable and up-to-date information to understand and prevent this loss. By harnessing the power of technology and science, we can unite millions of photos from [motion sensored cameras] around the world and reveal […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces quality updates to its tables extraction feature
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce a quality enhancement to our table recognition feature. Starting today, Textract more […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols
AWS Control Tower is releasing four new, less restrictive, mandatory preventative S3 Log Archive guardrails and changing the guidance of the four previous, more restrictive, preventative S3 Log Archive guardrails from mandatory to elective. With these guardrail changes you can now separate S3 Log Archive governance for resources created by AWS Control Tower from governance […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Now Available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in the region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud
Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Deloitte, an AWS Mainframe Migration Competency Partner. Application Modernization and Migration to AWS Cloud, powered by innoWake™, is a comprehensive solution for enterprises’ mainframe migration and modernization journeys. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces Warm Pools to accelerate scale out while saving money
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Warm Pools help applications scale out faster and save money by requiring fewer continuously running instances. With Warm Pools, customers can improve the elasticity of their applications by creating a pool of pre-initialized EC2 instances that are ready to quickly serve application traffic. Additionally, Warm Pools offer a way to save […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now available in Mumbai, Seoul and Tokyo AWS Regions
AWS Control Tower is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). AWS Control Tower is also available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). […]