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GCP – Google Cloud Application Modernization Program: Get to the future faster
It’s been almost 10 years since Marc Andreessen coined the phrase ‘software is eating the world.’ In that time, organizations have come to realize the fundamental truth of this idea, and have started their own journeys into becoming software companies. As large enterprises embrace the journey, they are looking for advice and a proven set […]

GCP – Accelerate your application development and delivery
Delivering software quickly, reliably, and safely is at the heart of every digital transformation and application modernization journey. After all, an increase in speed generates powerful business outcomes. As showcased by research from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA),software speed, stability, and availability contribute directly to organizational performance (including profitability, productivity, and customer satisfaction). Today, we […]

GCP – Anthos rising—now easier to use, for more workloads
Today more than ever, customers ask for help addressing two critical business needs: reimagining their application portfolios and driving cost savings. Earlier today, we announced Google Cloud App Modernization Program, or Google CAMP. We built this program to help you innovate faster, so you can reach your customers with world-class, secure, reliable applications, all while […]

GCP – From the ballpark to the cloud: How MLB is using Anthos
Whether it’s calculating batting averages or hot dog sales, data is at the heart of baseball. For Major League Baseball (MLB), the governing body of the sport known as America’s National Pastime, processing, analyzing, and ultimately making decisions based on that data is key to running a successful organization, and they’ve increasingly turned to Google […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family adds support for email addresses as usernames
AWS Transfer Family now supports using email addresses as usernames for your file transfer clients by adding support for at symbol (@) and period (dot) in usernames. In addition, the service now supports username length of up to 100 characters from the previously supported limit of 32 characters. Read More for the details.

GCP – Advancing telehealth with Amwell
Today, healthcare organizations are reimagining how care is delivered. While many organizations were already beginning to embrace telehealth at the start of the year, the global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend virtually overnight—for instance, according to HHS data, Medicare primary care visits delivered virtually grew from less than one percent in February of 2020 […]

AWS – AWS Transit Gateway customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify IP management
Earlier this year, we launched VPC Prefix List, a feature that allows you to group multiple CIDR blocks into a single object, and use it as a reference to simplify network configuration. Today, we are adding Prefix Lists support to AWS Transit Gateway, making it easier for you to manage Transit Gateway route tables. Read […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Distributor adds third-party agent, Dynatrace ONE
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, allows you to select from available popular third-party agents to install and manage on your instances. With this launch, you can select to install the pre-built Dynatrace ONE Agent directly from Distributor without having to create or maintain any software packages. AWS will continue to seek opportunities to […]

AWS – Provisioned Concurrency for AWS Lambda is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Provisioned Concurrency for AWS Lambda is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Provisioned Concurrency is a feature that provides customers greater control over performance of their serverless applications at any scale. Functions using Provisioned Concurrency execute with consistent start-up latency making them ideal for building interactive mobile or web backends, latency sensitive microservices, and […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports MongoDB 4.0 as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) has expanded functionality by adding support for MongoDB 4.0 as a source in AWS DMS v 3.4.1. Using DMS, you can now perform live migrations from MongoDB 4.0 clusters to any AWS DMS supported target including Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with minimal downtime. For full list of supported […]