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AWS – Now Secure Your SageMaker Studio Access Using AWS PrivateLink and AWS IAM SourceIP Restrictions
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). It provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare, build, train and tune, deploy and manage models. Starting today, you can secure the connection from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) […]

GCP – Rodan + Fields achieve business continuity for retail workloads with SAP on Google Cloud
Since its founding in 2002, Rodan + Fields, one of the leading skincare brands in the U.S., has been delighting customers worldwide with its innovative product portfolio. Recently, however, after taking stock of its pre-existing IT infrastructure, Rodan + Fields realized it needed a more modern, scalable solution—one that could keep pace with the company’s […]

Azure – API Management’s Named Values integration with Azure Key Vault
API Management’s Named Values can now be stored and managed in Azure Key Vault. Read More for the details.

GCP – The Wellcome Sanger Institute: Creating the right conditions for groundbreaking research with Anthos
Editor’s note: Today we speak with Dr. Vladimir Kiselev, head of the Cellular Genetics Programme’s Informatics team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, to hear how Google Cloud’s multi-cloud solution, Anthos, will help researchers collaborate and share their analyses more effectively. The Wellcome Sanger Institute has been at the very forefront of scientific discovery since 1992. […]

GCP – Automatically right-size Spanner instances with the new Autoscaler
With Cloud Spanner, you can easily get a highly available, massively scalable relational database. This has enabled Google Cloud customers to innovate on applications without worrying about whether the database back end will scale to meet their needs. Spanner also lets you optimize costs based on usage. To make it even easier to build with […]

AWS – Announcing AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Technology Partners
Today, we are announcing the launch of a net-new track within the AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response (PSDR) Competency to now include AWS Technology Partners. These AWS Competency Partners have deep expertise and proven customer success in designing technology solutions to aid in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from various natural and man-made […]

Azure – Deprecation of webview sign-in support announcement from Google
Google is deprecating webview support starting January 4, 2021. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 announces Spot Blueprints, an infrastructure code template generator to get started with EC2 Spot Instances
Spot Blueprints is an infrastructure code template generator that makes it easy to start using Spot Instances. It saves time in learning to use Spot and to start leveraging the steep savings and scale that Spot offers for interruptible workloads. You can use Spot Blueprints for the most popular services used with Spot Instances, including […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports bidirectional integration with ServiceNow ITSM
AWS Security Hub now supports a bidirectional integration with ServiceNow ITSM, making it easier for Security Hub users to automatically create and update tickets in ServiceNow ITSM from Security Hub findings and ensure that updates to those tickets are synced with the findings. This integration is available via the AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon Aurora R6g instance types, powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, in preview
AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now available in preview for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility. Graviton2 instances are already generally available for Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Read More for the details.