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GCP – Unleash Your Business Potential: The Total Economic Impact of ChromeOS
In today’s dynamic business landscape, organizations are continuously challenged to achieve more with fewer resources. The demand is high for technology that is not only powerful but also economical, simple to manage, and secure. Enter ChromeOS, a cloud-first operating system designed to meet these exact needs by enhancing security, boosting employee productivity, and significantly cutting […]
AWS – AWS Management Console now supports assigning a color to an AWS account for easier identification
Today, AWS announces the general availability of account color settings in AWS Management Console across all Public Regions. AWS customers now have an easy way to identify their accounts at a glance. Using the account color setting, account admins can assign a color to their AWS account (such as red for production accounts or yellow […]
AWS – Amazon Braket introduces local device emulator for verbatim circuits
Today, Amazon Braket introduced a local device emulator that enables developers to test verbatim circuits with device-specific characteristics before running on quantum hardware. This feature accelerates development by providing early feedback on circuit compatibility and expected behavior under realistic noise conditions, helping customers validate their quantum programs and develop noise-aware algorithms without incurring hardware costs. […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN now supports connectivity to IPv6 resources
Today, AWS Client VPN announces support for remote access to IPv6 workloads, allowing customers to establish secure VPN connections to their IPv6-enabled VPC resources. This new capability enables customers to meet their compliance and IPv6 network adoption goals. Now organizations can support IPv4, IPv6, and dual-stack resource connectivity through their Client VPN endpoints. Previously, Client […]
GCP – Google named a Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Incident Response 2025 Vendor Assessment
Today’s cybersecurity landscape requires partners with expertise and resources to handle any incident. Mandiant, a core part of Google Cloud Security, can empower organizations to navigate critical moments, prepare for future threats, build confidence, and advance their cyber defense programs. We’re excited to announce that Google has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Streams now offers enhanced flexibility with default applications
Starting today, Amazon GameLift Streams offers enhanced flexibility for managing default applications in stream groups. You can now create new stream groups without specifying a default application and modify or remove the default application in the existing stream group. The key improvements include: Ability to create a stream group without a default application Ability to select and […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports new certificate authority and cipher suites for SSL and OEM Agent options
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports ECC384 Certificate Authority with two new ECDSA cipher suites for Oracle Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Agent options in Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. The ECC384 Certificate Authority and ECDSA cipher suites provide comparable security to the RSA certificate authorities […]
AWS – Amazon MWAA now supports downgrading to minor Apache Airflow versions
You can now downgrade to minor Apache Airflow versions on Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. This in-place minor Apache Airflow version option allows you to downgrade your MWAA […]
GCP – Happy birthday, GKE! Let’s celebrate with new features and better pricing
“While containers make packaging apps easier, a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system is necessary to bring your workloads to production.” Ten years ago, these words opened the blog post announcing Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). The need for a managed Kubernetes platform is as important today as it was then, especially as workloads have evolved […]
GCP – Announcing general availability of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility
At Cloud Next ’25, we announced the preview of Firestore with MongoDB compatibility, empowering developers to build cost-effective, scalable, and highly reliable apps on Firestore’s serverless database using a familiar MongoDB-compatible API. Today, we’re announcing that Firestore with MongoDB compatibility is now generally available. With this launch, the 600,000 active developers within the Firestore community […]