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AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports sharing portfolios across an organization from a delegated member account
Today, AWS Service Catalog is releasing delegated administrator portfolio sharing, which enables administrators to more easily distribute and manage AWS services across multiple AWS accounts. Service Catalog administrators can now share services from multiple member accounts within their AWS Organization. Read More for the details.
Azure – Budgets in Cost Management now accounts threshold edits and alert limits above 100%
Budget evaluations in Azure Cost Management now re-fire alerts for the same period after you edit a budget. Additionally, now Budgets will also allow you to set a threshold above 100% Read More for the details.
GCP – How a gaming studio brought a lost world into the real world with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note:Today’s post comes from Maggy Larouche, senior producer of Jurassic World Alive at Ludia, one of Canada’s leading mobile video game companies. Jurassic World Alive brings players up close with their favorite prehistoric creatures from the Jurassic World film franchise using Google Maps Platform. Jurassic World Alive is Ludia’s first geolocation game. With every […]
GCP – New ways to manage custom Cloud Monitoring dashboards
Earlier this year, we added a Dashboard API to Cloud Monitoring, allowing you to manage custom dashboards and charts programmatically, in addition to managing them with the Google Cloud Console. Since then, you’ve asked us to provide more sample dashboard templates that target specific Google Cloud services. Many of you have also asked us to […]
GCP – How gaming company Krikey turned a location-based game into a play-at-home game
Editor’s note: Today’s post is a Q&A with Jhanvi and Ketaki Shriram, founders of Krikey, an Augmented Reality gaming app that is live on iOS and Android. In 2019 Krikey launched their first location-based AR game (WINGSPAN) built with Google Maps Platform and sponsored by the National Audubon Society. But in the wake of COVID-19, they […]
GCP – Automating Cloud Data Fusion deployments via Terraform
Cloud Data Fusion is a fully managed, cloud-native data integration service that helps users efficiently build and manage ETL data pipelines. It’s powered by the open source project CDAP. How Cloud Data Fusion works Many enterprises have data integration pipelines that take data from multiple sources and transform that data into a format useful for […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront enables configurable origin connection attempts and origin connection timeouts
Amazon CloudFront now provides you even more control over the connection behaviors between CloudFront and your origin. You can now configure the number of connection attempts CloudFront will make to your origin and the origin connection timeout for each attempt. In addition, the CloudFront origin response timeout range has been expanded and you can now […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available
Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6g instances and the memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6g instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors are generally available. Amazon EC2 C6g instances deliver up to 40% better price performance over x86-based Amazon EC2 C5 instances for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video […]
Azure – Live Video Analytics now in public preview
Live Video Analytics is a platform to capture, record, and analyze live video and publish the results (video and/or video analytics), enabling intelligent video applications. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure App Service regional virtual network integration for Linux apps is now available
The regional virtual network integration feature of Azure App Service, which enables access to resources in your virtual network across service endpoints or ExpressRoute connections, is now available in public regions Read More for the details.