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GCP – A Guide to Data Protection Offerings in Google Cloud
Cloud adoption has become a team sport. It started as an exciting effort led by forward-thinking developers, and it has turned into a global IT directive across countries and industries. Whether their goal is to migrate SAP workloads or to build next-generation analytics, thousands of technologists are learning how to work together to accelerate the […]

GCP – Women in leadership: A conversation on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8th, and in recognition of its importance to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we brought together a panel of women in leadership at Google Cloud to share their perspectives on why proactively focusing on DE&I in the workplace, and together with our partners, is so critical—especially right now. […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now provides an out-of-the-box chat user interface for your website
Amazon Connect Chat now provides an out-of-the-box chat widget, making it easy to begin servicing your customers through chat in just a few clicks. The widget allows you to design the customer experience to align with your corporate branding by customizing the font and color scheme in the user interface. Once configured, the widget can […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive launches Workflow Wizard
AWS Elemental MediaLive now offers a Workflow Wizard to help you create a live streaming workflow in just a few minutes. The Workflow Wizard guides you through setting up a live streaming workflow using AWS Elemental MediaLive and other AWS services including AWS Elemental MediaStore, AWS Elemental MediaPackage, and Amazon CloudFront. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure monitor for containers now supports Pods & Replica set live logs in AKS resource view
View live logs of your pods & replica-sets in Azure Kubernetes Service(AKS) resource view. Filter, search, and troubleshoot your pods and replica-sets. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton makes new fields available for Jinja parametrization
AWS Proton has made two new fields, service_instance and service_instance_name, available as inputs for the Jinja parametrization of templates. Template writers can use these fields to name individual resources in the template without requiring additional inputs from developers. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton now supports services without pipelines
AWS Proton now allows you to define services that do not include pipelines, giving developer and platform teams flexibility in defining, provisioning, and deploying their services. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton now supports tagging capabilities
AWS Proton now supports tagging of AWS Proton resources and tag-based access control. AWS Proton also tags all provisioned resources automatically with identifiers. You can now group and control your AWS Proton resources using tags, and track down all AWS resources provisioned through AWS Proton, including their costs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Quicksight Launches Sankey Diagram, Field folders and more
Amazon Quicksight now supports Sankey diagram. Sankey diagram is used to depict a flow from one set of values to another like customer journey, cash flows, process flow, or analysis of an energy system. For example, a Sankey diagram can show the path a web visitor takes from one page to the next on a […]