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GCP – Caring for caregivers: UNC’s Heroes Health Initiative supports healthcare workers’ mental health
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a huge strain on the U.S. healthcare system and its people. First responders and healthcare workers on the frontlines face incredible challenges, both physical and mental. Healthcare workers were vulnerable to depression and suicide before COVID-19. Now the problem is more acute, with first responders and frontline healthcare workers reporting […]
AWS – AWS Managed Services customers can now leverage AWS Service Catalog
AWS Service Catalog is now available for use in AWS Managed Services (AMS) accounts. You can now leverage Service Catalog as an alternative to the AWS change management system to provision and manage resources in your AMS accounts. Service Catalog helps you achieve consistent governance by systematically applying your organization’s security and operational policies, while […]
Azure – Azure Data Box Disk is now available in China
Azure Data Box Disk is now available for preview in the China East, China East 2, China North, and China North 2 regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – New Azure SQL Database gateways in Australia East, Canada Central, and West US 2
New Azure SQL Database gateways are being added to Australia East, Canada Central, and West US 2 regions and will start accepting traffic on August 10, 2020. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS App Mesh launches ingress support with virtual gateways
Now you can configure ingress for your applications running within App Mesh with virtual gateways that allow services outside of your mesh to communicate with services inside the mesh. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Cloud Foundation
Cloud Foundation is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, delivered via a consulting engagement from Itoc, an AWS DevOps, Financial Services, SaaS and Security Competency Partner. Cloud Foundation delivers a best practice, secure, and flexible foundation AWS environment for customers that don’t have the depth of skills yet or the capacity internally to build their own. […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version 1.17
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Kubernetes version 1.17. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS DeepRacer Evo and Sensor Kit now available for purchase
AWS DeepRacer is a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car powered by reinforcement learning that gives machine learning developers of all skill levels the opportunity to learn and build their ML skills in a fun and competitive way. AWS DeepRacer Evo includes new features and capabilities that help developers to learn more about ML through […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon Virtual Andon 2.0: Andon system for manufacturers
The Amazon Virtual Andon solution provides a scalable Andon system to help optimize factory floor processes, reduce issue resolution time, support the transition to predictive maintenance, and prevent issues. The solution provides a workflow to help users monitor manufacturing workstations for an event, log the event, and then route the event to the correct engineer for […]
GCP – Kicking off Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir, a multi-week, digital event series: July 14 – Sept 8
Starting this week, I am excited to welcome you to Google Cloud Next ‘20 OnAir, our reimagined, 9 week digital event series bringing together our global community of Googlers, customers, partners, analysts, press and more. As I’ve shared, our team has been hard at work to evolve our flagship event into an immersive and impactful […]