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AWS – Find your most expensive lines of code and improve code quality with Amazon CodeGuru – now generally available
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an applications’ most expensive lines of code. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon CodeGuru to all AWS customers. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now use their own Prefix Lists to simplify the configuration of security groups and route tables
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to create your own Prefix Lists that can be easily audited and applied across all your accounts to have a consistent security posture and routing behavior. A Prefix List is a collection of CIDR blocks that can be used to configure VPC security groups and route tables […]

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) 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.

AWS – Kernel Live Patching for Amazon Linux 2 is now generally available
Kernel Live Patching enables customers to patch security vulnerabilities and bugs in the Linux kernel without reboots or disruptions to running applications. As a result, Amazon Linux 2 customers benefit from improved service availability and a better security posture. This feature is now generally available to all Amazon Linux 2 customers, free of charge. Read […]

GCP – Resources from Google Cloud partners to support businesses during COVID-19
Our Google Cloud partners play a huge role in supporting our customers, and at no time has that been more true than now. From the beginning of the pandemic, the Google Cloud partner community has been at the forefront of building new solutions to address the short-term and long-term needs of our customers around the […]

GCP – A guide to setting up monitoring for object creation in Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage provides worldwide, highly durable object storage that scales to exabytes of data. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, and big data analytics. The objects are […]

GCP – Square Enix and Colopl Bring the Real World to Dragon Quest Walk
Editor’s note:Today’s post comes from Takamasa Shiba, Producer at Square Enix, one of Japan’s leading video game developers, publishers, and distributors and Ko Sato, who is in charge of development on the server-side at Colopl. The Dragon Quest franchise, which has sold over 81 million copies (as of 2019) worldwide across all platforms, launched the […]

GCP – Google Cloud’s AI Adoption Framework: Helping you build a transformative AI capability
We believe that enterprises that invest in building AI solutions are better positioned to be the industry leaders of tomorrow. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help organizations improve, scale, and automate the decision-making process across most business functions, while machine learning (ML) can create new opportunities and help you develop new revenue streams to grow your […]

GCP – Bare Metal Solution: Coming to a Google Cloud data center near you
Last November, we announced Bare Metal Solution, which lets businesses run specialized workloads such as Oracle databases, close to Google Cloud, while lowering overall costs and reducing risks associated with migration. Our next job was to make this solution global. Today, we’re announcing availability of Bare Metal Solution in five more regions: Ashburn, Virginia; Frankfurt; […]
GCP – Reimagining government social services in the COVID-19 era
It’s no secret that state governments in the U.S. have been asked to carry a heavy weight supporting their citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. States have seen a rising volume of new unemployment requests, and other social services systems are being stressed like never before. At the same time, more state employees have transitioned to […]