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AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Centricity Secure Workplace for Government
Centricity Secure Workplace for Government is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from CloudHesive, an AWS Digital Workplace Competency and an Authority to Operate on AWS (ATO) Partner. Centricity Secure Workplace for Government brings a virtual desktop solution that helps customers meet their security control sets and operational needs. Customers that […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune releases graph notebook as an open-source project
AWS has open-sourced Amazon Neptune’s Jupyter Notebook components for querying and visualizing graphs as a Python package under the Apache 2.0 license. The graph notebook is a Python library for Jupyter Notebooks that can run on local desktops and be used with databases that support either the RDF/SPARQL open standard or the open-source Apache TinkerPop […]

AWS – Amazon Transcribe announces support for Ogg opus and FLAC encoded audio for streaming transcription
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce native support for Ogg opus and FLAC encoded audio in Amazon Transcribe for streaming transcription. Previously, you were required to transcode audio streams with these encodings to […]

Azure – Export and manage Azure Policy as code with GitHub
New integrations in between Azure Policy and GitHub are now in public preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Databricks Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization on Microsoft Azure Government
With this certification, customers can now use Azure Databricks to process the U.S. government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments, including data that involves the protection of life and financial assets. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Resource Manager template support for Azure file share backup
You can now leverage Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template to configure backup for Azure file shares. Read More for the details.

AWS – Managed Backup Retention for AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM automatically takes a backup of your HSM cluster once a day and whenever an HSM is added to or removed from your cluster. Until today, however, customers were responsible for deleting old backups. Deleting out of date backups is important to prevent inactive users and expired login credentials from being used to access […]

GCP – Wayfair delights suppliers and customers with help from Google Cloud
At Wayfair, we use data to advance our business processes and help our suppliers work more efficiently, all with the end goal of delivering great customer experiences. As one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home, our massive scale allows us to use data to delight our customers and help our thousands of […]

Azure – Microsoft to establish its first datacenter region in Sweden
The new region is anticipated to include Microsoft Azure, with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform to follow. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Config now supports organization-wide resource data aggregation in a delegated administrator account
AWS Config lets you assess, audit, and evaluate how your AWS resources are configured, and helps you determine your overall compliance against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines. You can use AWS Config aggregators to collect your configuration and compliance data from the below sources, and aggregate that data into a single account and […]