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AWS – Amazon API Gateway now provides IAM condition keys for governing endpoint, authorization, and logging configurations
You can now use IAM condition keys as part of IAM and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to centrally govern endpoint, authorization, and logging configurations for your APIs in API Gateway. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports private Docker registry authentication
Amazon SageMaker now supports adding authentication to requests for pulling images stored in your private Docker Registry to build containers for real-time inference. Amazon SageMaker makes it easy to deploy your trained models to production with a single click, so you can start generating real-time inferences with low latency. You can bring your own code […]

AWS – Amazon Forecast enables AWS Resource Groups
Amazon Forecast adds support for AWS Resource Groups and AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor. Amazon Forecast uses machine learning (ML) to generate more accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Forecast brings the same technology used at Amazon.com to developers as a fully managed service, removing the need to manage resources or rebuild […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – WorkSpaces Manager for Amazon WorkSpaces
WorkSpaces Manager for Amazon WorkSpaces (WSM) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Nuvens Consulting, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency Partner. WSM is ideal for customers looking to optimize, automate, and reduce the day-to-day management of their Amazon WorkSpaces estate. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an […]

AWS – AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard solution is Generally Available
We’re excited to announce the launch of AWS DevOps Monitoring Dashboard, a reference implementation that automates the setup of DevOps metrics dashboards so that customers developing on AWS can measure development activity and identify areas for continued improvement. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Stream Analytics runs on Azure Stack Hub
Stream Analytics now is available on Azure Stack Hub as an IoT Edge module, supporting native input and output adapters, such as Event Hub and IoT Hub. It allows customer to build truly hybrid data solutions. Read More for the details.

GCP – Celebrating Women in Tech: Highlighting Possip
March is Women’s History Month – a time for us to come together and celebrate women-led startups and the amazing work they are doing in the tech industry. Our final feature highlights the founder of Possip — Shani Dowell —and how her education technology startup utilizes Google Cloud to provide actionable feedback for schools to […]

AWS – Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System are now available in Asia (Osaka) region
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) One Zone is now available in the Asia (Osaka) Region, reducing storage costs by 47% compared to Amazon EFS Standard storage classes, while maintaining the Amazon EFS capabilities that customers love. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Security Hub integrates with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings for improved centralized security posture management
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with Amazon Macie to automatically ingest sensitive data findings from Macie. Security Hub previously ingested policy findings from Macie, and this integration adds sensitive data findings. All of Security Hub’s findings are automatically normalized using the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF), enabling you to more easily search, correlate, and […]
GCP – Check, please! Billing in Cloud Storage
If you’d rather listen to this as a podcast, check out Google Cloud Reader. So far, we’ve talked a lot about how to use Cloud Storage—from managing data to optimizing performance, uploading, downloading, and buckets. But there’s one important topic that we haven’t talked about: the price tag. Analogy time! I’ve found that having a […]