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GCP – Five Behaviours for Digital Diffusion in EMEA – Google Cloud Public Sector Summit
This year presented many unforeseen and unthinkable global challenges. From shifting to remote work and providing essential services to affected communities to working tirelessly to keep the economy afloat. Many of us often wished there was a magic formula to help smooth these transitions. And while a magic formula might not exist, many governments across […]
Azure – Unified Connection Monitor in Network Watcher is now generally available
Connection monitor provides unified end-to-end connection monitoring capabilities for hybrid and Azure deployments. It brings together the best of Network Performance Monitor and Connection Monitor (classic). Read More for the details.
GCP – Serverless load balancing with Terraform: The hard way
Earlier this year, we announced Cloud Load Balancer support for Cloud Run. You might wonder, aren’t Cloud Run services already load-balanced? Yes, each *.run.app endpoint load balances traffic between an autoscaling set of containers. However, with the Cloud Balancing integration for serverless platforms, you can now fine tune lower levels of your networking stack. In […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Business Intelligence Suite on SQL Server 2019
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite on SQL Server 2019. You can now run SQL Server Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services on DB instances using the latest major version. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Customers can now deploy compute-intensive applications such as machine learning inferencing, multimedia processing, scientific simulations, HPC, and financial modeling that leverage Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) to meet their performance requirements on AWS Lambda. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) AWS Region. This regional expansion is particularly useful for organizations in the Middle East where data residency considerations previously made it difficult for customers to use Amazon SES. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Marketplace launches self-service tool for sellers to update their AMI products
Today, AWS Marketplace announced a new self-service experience in the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP) that enables AWS Marketplace Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to add new Amazon Machine Image (AMI) versions, restrict versions, and update product information on their AMI software listings quickly and easily. AWS Marketplace is consistently improving the way that sellers can […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds Automatic Application Discovery
Setting up monitoring for your enterprise applications got even easier with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights new ability to automatically detect applications and setup monitoring based on the detected applications. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers easily setup monitoring and enhanced observability for their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature […]
GCP – Built with the Google Maps Platform Gaming solution
On June 15, 2020 we announced the general availability of the Google Maps Platform Gaming solution, including the Maps SDK for Unity and Playable Locations API, to officially bring our knowledge of the world to all games built with Unity for the first time. The goal of the Gaming solution is to enable developers to […]
AWS – Amazon Translate announces the General Availability of Active Custom Translation – ACT
Amazon Translate is a fully managed, neural machine translation service that delivers high quality and affordable language translation in seventy-one languages. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Active Custom Translation (ACT). ACT gives you greater control and enables you to customize the machine translation output to your needs and preferences. For example, […]