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GCP – All about cables: A guide to posts on our infrastructure under the sea
From data centers and cloud regions to subsea cables, Google is committed to connecting the world. Our investments in infrastructure aim to further improve our network—one of the world’s largest—which helps improve global connectivity, supporting users and Google Cloud customers. Our subsea cables play a starring role in this work, linking up cloud infrastructure that […]
GCP – The top cloud capabilities industry leaders want for sustained innovation
Cloud computing technologies help companies and governments to deliver essential services to their customers and citizens—never was this seen more than during the pandemic. From enabling the quick rollout of indispensable programs like unemployment assistance or access to COVID-19 testing online portals to leveraging on-demand infrastructure to meet enterprise compute needs, cloud empowers IT leaders […]
GCP – Why you need to explain machine learning models
Many companies today are actively using AI or have plans to incorporate it into their future strategies — 76% of enterprises are now prioritizing AI and ML over other initiatives in their IT budgets and the global AI industry is expected to reach over $260 billion by 2027. But as AI and advanced analytics become […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports targeted sign out through refresh token revocation
By default, Amazon Cognito refresh tokens expire 30 days after a user signs in to a user pool. When you create an app, you can set the app’s refresh token expiration to any value between 60 minutes and 10 years. Amazon Cognito now enables you to revoke refresh tokens in real time so that those […]
AWS – AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications
You can now launch NAT Gateways in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without associating an internet gateway to your VPC. Internet Gateway is required to provide internet access to the NAT Gateway. However, some customers use their NAT Gateways with Transit Gateway or virtual private gateway to communicate privately with other VPCs or on-premises […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now supports a new callback step that allows customers to integrate any task or job outside Amazon SageMaker as a step in the model building pipeline. When a callback step is invoked, the current execution of a SageMaker […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway adds Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast support in 4 additional AWS regions
Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet group management protocol (IGMP) multicast in the Africa (Cape Town), EU (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports customer-managed customer master keys
Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports customer-managed customer master keys (CMKs) for Hyperledger Fabric networks. Customers can encrypt new member-specific resources using their own CMK. These CMKs are declared in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and used by Amazon Managed Blockchain. Each member can use their own CMK and manage it according to their security policy. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Athena engine version 2 is generally available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud regions
The latest query engine for Amazon Athena is generally available in all 24 AWS Regions where Athena is available. Customers who use Athena engine version 2 benefit from new features and performance enhancements that make analyzing data easier and more cost-effective than before. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure IoT Edge integration with Azure Monitor is now in public preview
Monitoring and troubleshooting your Azure IoT Edge devices just became more simple and efficient. Read More for the details.