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AWS – Introducing AWS App Runner Integration in the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains IDEs
The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to create and manage deployments from their code or image repositories using AWS AppRunner. AWS App Runner that was recently announced is a new service that makes it easy for customers without any prior containers or infrastructure experience to build, deploy, and run containerized […]

GCP – Anthos 101 learning series: All the videos in one place
Do you need to develop, run and secure applications across your hybrid and multicloud environments? Look no further than Anthos, our managed application platform that extends Google Cloud services and engineering practices to your environments so you can modernize apps faster and establish operational consistency across them. To help you get started, we created the […]

GCP – Optimize your browser deployment: Links to our most popular Chrome Insider posts
We launched the Chrome Insider blog in 2019 to share tips and best practices with IT admins so they could better deploy, manage, and secure Chrome browser. Since then, the series has covered everything from supporting legacy browsers to protecting enterprise credentials to simplifying deployments. To make it even easier to find and browse the […]

GCP – 6 businesses transforming with SAP on Google Cloud
Thousands of organizations globally rely on SAP for their most mission critical workloads. And for many Google Cloud customers, part of a broader digital transformation journey has included accelerating the migration of these essential SAP workloads to Google Cloud. These customers seek greater agility, elasticity, and uptime on a truly flexible cloud that includes the […]

GCP – Diversity in leadership: Celebrating the success of Asian & Pacific American founders with Google Cloud
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month —a time for us to come together to celebrate and remember the important people and history of Asian and Pacific Island heritage. This feature highlights three AAPI founders from the Google For Startups community. Read on to learn how these three founders built their businesses, leverage Google tech, […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports data compression, enabling you to reduce the cost of storage for machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), and analytics data sets. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues
On Dec 17, 2020, Amazon Simple Queue Service supported a preview of high throughput mode for FIFO queues. Today, Amazon SQS announces the general availability of high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 3000 messages per second per API action. This is a tenfold increase compared to current SQS FIFO […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
CloudWatch Synthetics, a feature that supports monitoring your REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24/7, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. With CloudWatch Synthetics, you can continually verify your customer experience even when there is no customer traffic on your applications. This helps you discover issues before your customers […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Query Suggestions
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, that enables organizations to provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra’s Query Suggestions feature to guide end users towards more commonly asked questions and save them time in their search for the […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew adds new nest and unnest transformations
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports nest and unnest transformations to help users pack or unpack data into columns to manipulate their datasets. With these transformations, users can now easily extract data from nested json string fields or combine data without writing any code. Read More for the details.