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AWS – Introducing the AWS Activate Console – helping startups accelerate their growth and development
AWS Activate provides startups, including both smaller, early stage companies and more advanced digital businesses, with free tools and resources to quickly get started on AWS. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the new AWS Activate Console. The Activate Console is full of personalized tools and resources designed to support startups […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon QuickSight is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Databricks Now Available in Switzerland North
Azure Databricks is now available in the Swiss Azure datacenters which marks another milestone on the way to digitize Switzerland Read More for the details.
AWS – Now generally available – design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench
NoSQL Workbench support for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available. You can design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench, which has a point-and-click interface for creating nonrelational data models. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint is now available in Singapore (SIN) region
Amazon Pinpoint is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. With Amazon Pinpoint, you can increase customer engagement by sending marketing campaigns and transactional messages across multiple channels: email, SMS, and push notifications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the first technical course just for APN Technology Partners
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the first technical course designed specifically for APN Technology Partners! AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Migrating Your Application to AWS (Technical) explains the technical fundamentals and best practices for migrating your application from on-premises deployments to a single-tenant, highly available AWS Cloud solution. Read More for the […]
GCP – Comparing containerization methods: Buildpacks, Jib, and Dockerfile
As developers we work on source code, but production systems don’t run source, they need a runnable thing. Starting many years ago, most enterprises were using Java EE (aka J2EE) and the runnable “thing” we would deploy to production was a “.jar”, “.war”, or “.ear” file. Those files consisted of the compiled Java classes and […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service adds native SAML Authentication for Kibana
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now natively supports using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to offer single sign-on (SSO) for Kibana. SAML authentication for Kibana enables users to integrate directly with third-party identity providers (IDP) such as Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, Auth0, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Azure Active Directory. With this feature, your users can […]
AWS – Amazon FSx is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder now supports AMI distribution across AWS accounts
Customers can now share AMIs from Image Builder pipelines with AWS accounts in multiple AWS regions, using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Read More for the details.