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Azure – General availability: IoT Hub service API support for Azure Active Directory based access control
IoT Hub support for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is now generally available for service APIs. This means you can secure your service connections to IoT Hub with much more flexibility and granularity. Read More for the details.

GCP – Arming Google Workspace users and admins with advanced counter-abuse and threat-analysis capabilities
Like everything we build at Google, we created Google Workspace with security at its core to defend against threats and combat abuse, helping all of our users stay safe. With these protections, we enable IT admins to defend against attackers who are always looking for new vectors to exploit. To ensure we’re giving admins the […]

GCP – Transforming collaboration in Google Workspace
After more than a year of remote collaboration, many people are showing signs of digital fatigue. Throughout the pandemic, millions of employees bridged the physical distances with their colleagues by making themselves more available, joining a deluge of virtual meetings, and leaning into a dizzying array of tools and applications. As part of our mission […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support
Today, we are excited to announce support for AWS Cloud Digital Interface (AWS CDI) flows in AWS Elemental MediaConnect. A MediaConnect CDI flow allows you to build uncompressed video workflows in the AWS Cloud, using MediaConnect to link different products and services together into a virtualized live video production system. With MediaConnect CDI flows, you […]

Azure – General availability: 99.99% availability for Azure Key Vault
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.

AWS – AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0. This release makes Guard a general-purpose policy-as-code evaluation tool. With Guard 2.0, developers can write policy rules for any JSON- and YAML-formatted file such as Kubernetes configurations and Terraform JSON configurations, in addition to already supported CloudFormation templates. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Lex is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region
Starting today, Amazon Lex is available in the AWS Canada (Central) region. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex combines advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of […]

Azure – Azure Sphere 21.05 will not be released – 21.06 coming in June
This month, Azure Sphere will not release an updated OS or SDK for 21.05. The next software update will be generally available in June. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to do network traffic analysis with VPC Flow Logs on Google Cloud
Network traffic analysis is one of the core ways an organization can understand how workloads are performing, optimize network behavior and costs, and conduct troubleshooting—a must when running mission-critical applications in production. VPC Flow Logs is one such enterprise-grade network traffic analysis tool, providing information about TCP and UDP traffic flow to and from VM […]