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AWS – Amazon VPC Endpoints for Amazon EC2 are now available in Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town)
Amazon EC2 is now available through VPC endpoints in the Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) regions, allowing you to access Amazon EC2 from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without traversing the internet. Read More for the details.
GCP – Security in the new normal: What happened week 4 at Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir
It’s hard to believe, but Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir Week 4 is already in our rearview. Week 4 focused on security, and we had a lot to share, from solution announcements and roadmaps, to best practices and tips, to demos and customer stories. It would be impossible for any one person to have experienced […]
GCP – Introducing the Google Cloud Security Showcase
Security is at the heart of any cloud journey. On the one hand, as you adopt cloud services and move workloads to the cloud, you need to make sure you’re conforming to your established security policies. On the other hand, you can take advantage of new capabilities, use new tools, and help improve your security […]
GCP – Building scalable web applications with Firestore — new reference guide
If you’ve been building and maintaining large web or mobile apps, you’ve probably heard of Firestore, Google’s scalable, serverless document database. But perhaps you’ve also wondered precisely how Firestore matches up to other Google Cloud database products. To help you understand Firestore’s core strengths, we’ve recently published a new reference guide that explains Firestore’s differentiating […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – VPC-In-A-Box℠
VPC-In-A-Box℠ is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, delivered via a consulting engagement from Foghorn, an AWS DevOps and AWS Security Competency Partner. VPC-In-A-Box℠ demystifies, simplifies, and accelerates Amazon VPC creation, configuration, and optimization, to seamlessly connect to AWS Availability Zones within AWS Regions around the world. Customers that request this consulting offer will take part […]
Azure – Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 10, 2020
Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in West Central US and South Africa North effective 10 September 2020. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex launches accuracy improvements and confidence scores
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Today, we are launching natural language understanding improvements and confidence scores on Amazon Lex. We continuously improve the service based on customer feedback and advances in research. The natural language understanding improvements enable better intent classification accuracy. Confidence scores indicate […]
AWS – Amazon EKS is now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure France has achieved GSMA accreditation
Azure has added an important compliance offering for telecommunications in France, the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM). Read More for the details.
Azure – Selective disks backup for Azure Virtual Machine is in public preview
Optimize your costs and enjoy faster backup and restore operations by selectively backing up a subset of the data disks in a VM. Read More for the details.