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AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) Now Offers Context-based Proactive Incident Notification Service
AWS Managed Services (AMS) is pleased to announce a new context-based proactive incident notification service. Now incident notifications for critical CloudWatch alarms based on incident context are proactively delivered to you faster. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 G4 Instances which provides up to 4.5X faster and 5.4X cheaper XGBoost Training
Amazon EMR cluster running G4dn instances is 5.4X cheaper and 4.5X faster compared to an Amazon EMR cluster running Amazon EC2 R5 Memory-optimized instances. To learn more, please see Nvidia Blog Post. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS Content Analysis
AWS Content Analysis is an AWS Solutions Implementation that customers can use to obtain a broader understanding of their media content through machine learning. The solution brings together the capabilities of different AWS machine learning tools to generate meaningful insights from metadata gleaned through video analysis. Customers can use the solutions implementation, modify it to […]
AWS – Introducing Migration Evaluator: Fast Track your Business Case for AWS
Starting today, customers considering AWS for running on-premises workloads can request a business case from Migration Evaluator (Formerly TSO Logic) at no cost. Creating business cases on your own can be a time-consuming process and does not always identify the least expensive deployment and purchasing options. With Migration Evaluator, you get access to AWS expertise, […]
GCP – G Suite sessions at Next OnAir to help you collaborate and get things done
Whether you’re developing a next generation app or just putting the finishing touches on a sales presentation, collaboration is likely at the core of what you do. This week’s sessions examine how our productivity and collaboration tools help teams work better together. To get you started, here’s a quick guide to the must-see G Suite […]
GCP – Next OnAir sessions on end user computing and remote work
With so many people working remotely, secure cloud-native devices have never been more important. During Productivity and Collaboration weekat Google Cloud Next ‘20 OnAir, our Chrome Enterprise and Android Enterprise sessions aim to help businesses deploy and support a remote workforce. Empower your remote workforce with Chrome Enterprise Enabling a Remote Workforce with Chrome Enterprise: […]
GCP – Migrate and modernize your on-prem data lake with managed Kafka
Data analytics has been a rapidly changing area of technology, and cloud data warehouses have brought new options for businesses to analyze data. Organizations have typically used data warehouses to curate data for business analytics use cases. Data lakes emerged as another option that allows for more types of data to be stored and used. […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports three Availability Zone deployments in EU(Stockholm), Asia Pacifiic (Seoul), and South America (Sao Paulo)
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections
Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports a new security policy, TLSv1.2_2019, which includes only the following ciphers: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud’s Commitment to EU International Data Transfers and the CJEU Ruling
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling invalidating the EU US Privacy Shield Framework, but upholding the validity of EU Model Contract Clauses (MCCs), also known as Standard Contractual Clauses. Both of these mechanisms were created for the lawful transfer of personal data from the European […]