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GCP – Risk governance of digital transformation: guide for risk, compliance & audit teams
The ongoing shift toward cloud technologies has transformed industries and continues to accelerate. This has created new challenges and opportunities for Chief Risk Officers, Chief Compliance Officers, Heads of Internal Audit and their teams. As their organizations pursue newfound agility, quality improvements to their products and services, and relevance in the marketplace, executives and their […]

GCP – 4 simple steps to make the perfect spreadsheet to power your no-code app
Making data accessible, useful and actionable in different contexts is one of the main reasons we build apps. Typically, this involves a lot of engineering, but thanks to no-code app development, even those with no coding experience can create apps from the most commonplace data repository of them all: the spreadsheet or Google Sheets. For […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports setting attributes required for India DLT requirements when sending SMS using local routes in India
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fully-managed messaging service that supports application-to-person (A2P) workloads, including mobile text messaging (SMS). Now, when using Amazon SNS to send SMS to your customers, you can set a principal entity ID and a message template ID, as Amazon SNS message attributes. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow to connect to data from SaaS (Software as a Service) applications and AWS services (in Preview)
AWS Glue DataBrew announces native console integration with Amazon AppFlow to connect to data from applications like Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, ServiceNow, and tens of other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift. To get started, when you create a new dataset in DataBrew, you can pick from a list of […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure Log Analytics in South India
Azure Log Analytics is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health and usage in South India. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Application Insight in South India and West Central US
Application Insight is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyzing their services for health in the following list of regions South India West Central US. Read More for the details.

GCP – Go from Database to Dashboard with BigQuery and Looker
Creating an effective and scalable dashboard can be a time consuming process. But with Looker, analysts are no longer stuck re-writing tedious SQL queries. In our upcoming webinar, we’ll show you how to go from tables in BigQuery to a real-time, operational dashboard in Looker, in less than 30 minutes. Why use Looker + BigQuery? […]

AWS – Introducing AWS for Media and Entertainment
Media & entertainment customers face industry-wide transformation, with companies reinventing how they create content, optimize media supply chains, and compete for audience attention across streaming, broadcast, and direct-to-consumer platforms. Industry leaders such as Netflix, FORMULA 1, Discovery, and Disney use the AWS Cloud to pioneer new ways to entertain—launching new streaming services, expanding their content […]

AWS – AWS announces general availability of Amazon Nimble Studio
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nimble Studio. Nimble Studio is a managed service that empowers creative studios to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content entirely in the cloud, from storyboard sketch to final deliverable. With Nimble Studio, artists can accelerate digital content creation with virtual workstations, high-speed storage, […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports client authentication for Apache Kafka streams
Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue now support SSL client certificate authentication with Apache Kafka stream producers. You can now provide a custom certificate while defining an AWS Glue connection to an Apache Kafka cluster, which AWS Glue will use when authenticating with it. Read More for the details.