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GCP – Celebrating Women in Tech: Highlighting PacketFabric
March is Women’s History Month – a time for us to come together and celebrate women-led startups and the amazing work they are doing in the tech industry. Our first of four features highlights the founders of PacketFabric—Jezzibell Gilmore and Anna Claiborne—and how they utilized Google Cloud to build their telecommunications startup. Our rapidly-growing global […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge introduces support for API Destinations
Amazon EventBridge now supports API Destinations, a simple and reliable way for customers to send events to any HTTP API, such as self-managed or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, allowing customers to easily extend their existing applications without writing code. Authorization is built in so customers don’t have to write or manage additional code to authorize their […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML
AWS Step Functions now supports YAML state machine definitions within the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and in AWS CloudFormation, making it possible to define workflows in the same language as your infrastructure as code. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports multi-level approvals
Change Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to define multiple, sequential levels of approvals that are required for your operational changes. Change Manager simplifies the way you can request, approve, implement, and report on operational changes to your application configuration and infrastructure on AWS and on-premises. Now, you can further streamline […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager now provides support to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple AWS Regions
AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to replicate secrets across multiple AWS Regions. You can now give your multi-Region applications access to replicated secrets in the corresponding Regions and rely on AWS Secrets Manager to keep the replicas in sync with the primary secret. In scenarios such as disaster recovery, you can read replicated secrets from […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Purview Bulk Edit enhancements
Azure Purview’s bulk editing capability for data assets now supports classifications and contacts along with glossary terms. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Sphere version 21.02 is now available
The 21.02 release includes new features in the Azure Sphere CLI v2 and promotion from Beta to release. Read More for the details.
GCP – Costs meet code with programmatic budget notifications
TL;DR – More than just alerts, budgets can also send notifications to Pub/Sub. Once they’re in Pub/Sub, you can hook up all kinds of services to react to them. You can use the information about the budget along with some code to do just about anything. Programmatic budget notifications can help you automate and fits […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P4d Instances now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.