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GCP – Transforming collaboration in Google Workspace
After more than a year of remote collaboration, many people are showing signs of digital fatigue. Throughout the pandemic, millions of employees bridged the physical distances with their colleagues by making themselves more available, joining a deluge of virtual meetings, and leaning into a dizzying array of tools and applications. As part of our mission […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds CDI and JPEG XS support
Today, we are excited to announce support for AWS Cloud Digital Interface (AWS CDI) flows in AWS Elemental MediaConnect. A MediaConnect CDI flow allows you to build uncompressed video workflows in the AWS Cloud, using MediaConnect to link different products and services together into a virtualized live video production system. With MediaConnect CDI flows, you […]
Azure – General availability: 99.99% availability for Azure Key Vault
Key Vault is now being offered at a 99.99% availability SLA, an improvement over our previous 99.9% SLA. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0 is now generally available
AWS CloudFormation announces the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Guard 2.0. This release makes Guard a general-purpose policy-as-code evaluation tool. With Guard 2.0, developers can write policy rules for any JSON- and YAML-formatted file such as Kubernetes configurations and Terraform JSON configurations, in addition to already supported CloudFormation templates. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region
Starting today, Amazon Lex is available in the AWS Canada (Central) region. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex combines advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of […]
Azure – Azure Sphere 21.05 will not be released – 21.06 coming in June
This month, Azure Sphere will not release an updated OS or SDK for 21.05. The next software update will be generally available in June. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to do network traffic analysis with VPC Flow Logs on Google Cloud
Network traffic analysis is one of the core ways an organization can understand how workloads are performing, optimize network behavior and costs, and conduct troubleshooting—a must when running mission-critical applications in production. VPC Flow Logs is one such enterprise-grade network traffic analysis tool, providing information about TCP and UDP traffic flow to and from VM […]
AWS – Amazon Macie supports criteria-based bucket selection for sensitive data discovery jobs
Amazon Macie now allows you to define a run-time criteria to determine which S3 buckets should be included in a sensitive data discovery job. When a job runs, Macie identifies the S3 buckets that match your criteria and automatically adds or removes them from the job’s scope. This capability makes it easier for you to […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Enterprise Cloud Foundation Accelerator
Enterprise Cloud Foundation Accelerator is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from World Wide Technology (WWT), an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Enterprise Cloud Foundation Accelerator enables customers to immediately find value and begin the use of AWS by building out a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment. Customers that request this consulting […]