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Azure – General availability: ExpressRoute Seamless Gateway Migration
ExpressRoute customers can now deploy a second gateway to the Gateway Subnet. This will enable a seamless migration to an Az-enabled Gateway SKU and upgrade your Public IP configurations. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: What you missed at Phil and Kevin’s RSA Conference fireside chat
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2024. In this update, I’ll review my RSA Conference fireside chat with Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive […]
GCP – Game-changing assets: Making concept art with Google Cloud’s generative AI
Developing games is unique in that it requires a large variety of media assets such as 2D images, 3D models, audio, and video to come together in a development environment. However, in small game teams, such as those just getting started or “indie” teams, it’s unlikely that there are enough people to create such […]
GCP – Elevate your FinOps strategy: Optimize with FinOps hub, now GA
In today’s cloud-driven world, optimization isn’t an option – it’s your competitive advantage. When you streamline cloud costs, you free up resources that you can reinvest into innovation, research and development, accelerating new product development, or fueling market expansion. But let’s get real: optimizing cloud environments at scale can be overwhelming. Managing large datasets, navigating […]
GCP – No work items left unturned: How Dataflow mitigates stragglers
Dataflow, Google Cloud’s fully managed streaming analytics service, has a proud tradition of getting the job done (pun intended) with completeness and with precision. Practically speaking, that means leaving no shard behind and doing things exactly once. Today, we are excited to announce three new features: straggler detection, hot key detection, and slow worker auto-mitigation. […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Core now supports Windows Server bundles
Amazon WorkSpaces Core now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022. With these bundles, customers and partners can take advantage of the latest license included Windows Server instances. This new feature will allow customers to minimize getting started time by providing staged images. In addition, this feature enables customers and […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service provides customers advanced search capabilities, such as fuzzy search, cross-collection search and multilingual search, on their Amazon DocumentDB documents using the OpenSearch API. With a few clicks in the AWS Console, customers can now seamlessly synchronize their data from Amazon DocumentDB to Amazon OpenSearch Service, eliminating the […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports inline editing of alert manager and rules configuration
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports inline editing of rules and alert manager configuration directly from the AWS console. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Serverless in the South America (São Paulo) AWS region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in additional AWS region South America (São Paulo). With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in […]
AWS – Amazon MWAA now available in additional Regions
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in five new AWS Regions: Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today […]