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GCP – Admin Essentials: Troubleshooting with Chrome Browser
For IT teams, supporting users, especially remotely, can be difficult. And this is even truer now than ever with so many applications to manage. Because users spend a large portion of their day in the web browser, we wanted to arm IT admins like you with tips that can help prevent issues that could impact […]

GCP – BHI: Embracing Google Workspace and AppSheet to transform the workplace
In the last two decades, BHI, once a small construction company in Vernal, Utah, has expanded its operations to dozens of industries in over 25 states. But while the company grew, its technology trailed behind. File sharing and emails both ran off a single server. Editing a document was a grueling undertaking that required an […]

Azure – Azure Sphere 20.10 Update 1 is now available for compatibility testing
Azure Sphere 20.10 Update 1 fixes some issues reported to us by customers using 20.10 Retail Eval for compatibility testing. The release of 20.10 Update 1 will not reset the retail evaluation period. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing General Availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves
AWS Nitro Enclaves is a new EC2 capability that enables customers to create isolated compute environments (enclaves) to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their Amazon EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface area for their most […]

AWS – Announcing SSL/TLS certificates for Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for Nitro Enclaves
ACM for Nitro Enclaves is an enclave application that allows you to use public and private SSL/TLS certificates with your web applications and servers running on Amazon EC2 instances with AWS Nitro Enclaves. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet as well as resources on […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra adds Confluence Server connector
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers can automatically index and search content that is contained in Confluence repositories using Kendra’s new built-in Confluence Server connector. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing the AWS Activate Console – helping startups accelerate their growth and development
AWS Activate provides startups, including both smaller, early stage companies and more advanced digital businesses, with free tools and resources to quickly get started on AWS. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the new AWS Activate Console. The Activate Console is full of personalized tools and resources designed to support startups […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon QuickSight is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Databricks Now Available in Switzerland North
Azure Databricks is now available in the Swiss Azure datacenters which marks another milestone on the way to digitize Switzerland Read More for the details.
AWS – Now generally available – design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench
NoSQL Workbench support for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now generally available. You can design and visualize Amazon Keyspaces data models more easily by using NoSQL Workbench, which has a point-and-click interface for creating nonrelational data models. Read More for the details.