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GCP – Compliance Without Compromise: Introducing Assured Workloads for Government
As U.S. government agencies and the enterprises that serve them adopt cloud technologies, security and compliance requirements around data locality and personnel access are key considerations. To meet these requirements, many cloud providers have built separate environments, with standalone data centers, to run government workloads. But these “government clouds” don’t come with the technology and […]

GCP – Announcing C2C, an independent community whose mission is to serve, educate and connect Google Cloud customers
Over the last several months, I’ve seen first-hand how the power of knowledge-sharing and community has galvanized our customers in the face of an unprecedented global pandemic. Our customers are asking important questions, forging partnerships, and creating real solutions to today’s most challenging problems by harnessing the power of the cloud, and each other. It’s […]

GCP – Helping ISVs Leverage the Power of Google Cloud
Businesses run key applications in the cloud to take advantage of lower cost and increased global availability, security, and elasticity. And increasingly, enterprises are looking for more—they want greater deployment flexibility, they want to unlock the value of data through analytics and AI/ML, and they want to take advantage of the technology ecosystems that the […]

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.