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GCP – Albertsons and Google are making grocery shopping easier with cloud technology
The past year shook all of us out of our routines as we adapted to the pandemic. Simple things like grocery shopping took on new importance and presented new challenges. Ordering groceries online became commonplace almost overnight. Making that easier was one of the goals we tackled alongside Albertsons Companies when we started working together […]
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Queue notifications for Amazon GameLift. Trusted by some of the most successful game companies in the world like Wargaming, Ubisoft, and more, GameLift deploys, operates, and scales dedicated servers for multiplayer games. With this new update, you as a game developer can now receive […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Event Grid now provides support for delivery headers and additional advanced filters among other updates
Azure Event Grid now supports additional advanced filters, setting customer headers on requests delivering events, configuring TTL on messages delivered to Azure Storage Queues, and setting system-assigned managed identities on regional System Topics. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Changes coming to Azure Pipelines free grants
With this update, we are including temporary changes that will impact the process to acquire Azure Pipelines free grants. New users will have to send an email and provide additional information to get free CI/CD. Read More for the details.
GCP – How sweet it is: Using Cloud AI to whip up new treats with Mars Maltesers
Google Cloud AI is baked into our work with customers all over the world. We’ve partnered with organizations to use AI to make new predictions, automate business processes, forecast flooding and even combat climate change and chronic diseases. And sometimes, we even get to help our customers use AI to invent new things—tasty new things. […]
AWS – AWS Config adds pagination support for advanced queries that contain aggregate functions
AWS Config advanced queries feature now supports pagination for queries that contain aggregate functions, such as COUNT and SUM. For example, getting the total number of resources in each AWS account requires the COUNT aggregate function. You can now use advanced queries to get complete results for your aggregate queries through pagination, which were previously […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Security Hub is now available in the new AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS WAF adds support for Custom Responses
AWS WAF now supports configuring the HTTP status code and the response body returned to the user when a request is blocked. Until today, AWS WAF could only return HTTP status code 403 (forbidden) when the user request was blocked by WAF. With Custom Response, you can now configure AWS WAF to send out a […]
AWS – AWS WAF adds support for Request Header Insertion
AWS WAF now supports inserting HTTP headers to the user request when WAF allows the request to reach your application. You can use the Request Header Insertion feature to help validate that requests made to your application were evaluated by WAF and configure your application to only allow requests that contain the custom header values […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches a new Edge location in Indonesia
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through the new AWS edge location in Jakarta, Indonesia. Using Global Accelerator, users in Indonesia can now see improved performance of up to 20% for internet traffic to the AWS Singapore Region and up to 60% for traffic to AWS Regions in North America and Europe. Global Accelerator is […]