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AWS – Announcing AWS DMS Serverless support for MongoDB and DocDB as a source
AWS Database Migration Service Serverless (AWS DMSS) now supports MongoDB and Amazon DocDB as data sources. Using AWS DMSS, you can now migrate data from MongoDB and Amazon DocDB to a variety of data targets. AWS DMSS now shows MongoDB and Amazon DocDB as options when defining endpoints which can then be used as sources […]

AWS – AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Q CLI
Today, we are announcing the integration of Amazon Q CLI into CloudShell, the embedded terminal experience in the AWS Management Console. The command line is used by over thirty million engineers to write, build, run, debug, and deploy software. However, despite how critical it is to the software development process, the command line is challenging […]

GCP – Google Cloud Marketplace private offer enhancements unlock enterprise and AI use cases
When it comes to purchasing technology for different departments and business units that operate across the globe, enterprise customers need flexibility and choice. This needs to extend to the technology, including generative AI solutions, that integrate with a customer’s Google Cloud environment and that are procured through Google Cloud Marketplace. Google Cloud Marketplace offers a […]

GCP – Welcome to Google Public Sector Summit 2024
Today, Google Public Sector is gathering customers and partners in Washington, D.C. for its annual Google Public Sector Summit, an event focusing on the “art of the possible” in AI, cybersecurity, and data analysis for government customers. In 2023, we gathered the government technology community to explore and share best practices on how to get […]

GCP – Beyond the basics: Build real-world gen AI skills with the latest learning paths from Google Cloud
The majority of organizations don’t feel ready for the AI era. In fact, 62% say they don’t have the expertise they need to unlock AI’s full potential.1 As the leader of learning for Google Cloud, the only thing that surprises me about that number is how low it is. I meet with customers every day, […]

GCP – From AI to Zero Trust: Google Cloud Security delivers comprehensive solutions for the public sector
Government organizations and agencies face significant challenges from threat actors seeking to compromise data and critical infrastructure, and impact national and economic stability. These attacks target a broad range of industries and organizations, from water security to rural health care, via external targeting and insider threats. Government organizations are in the top five industries targeted […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances that deliver up to 19% better price performance compared to C6i instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. C7i-flex instances expand the EC2 Flex instances portfolio to provide the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority […]

AWS – AWS CodePipeline supports automatic retry on stage failure
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines introduces the ability to automatically retry a stage if there is a failure in the stage. A stage fails if any action in the stage fails. To use automatic retry, set “Retry” as the result for the on failure lifecycle event of a stage, and optionally configure the flag to […]

GCP – Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing
Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amber Huffman, Principal Engineer. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry. Amber is on the board of directors at the Open Compute Project […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports 1-click connectivity to EC2 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora databases now support 1-click connection to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance during database creation in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. When provisioning a database using the Amazon RDS console, you now have the option to select an EC2 instance and with a single […]