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GCP – Check out how AI startups are accelerating their growth with Google Cloud
Google Cloud is partnering with leading AI and cybersecurity startups to accelerate their growth and innovation, through the ISV Startup Springboard program, announced today at the Google Cloud Startup Summit. Over the last year, more than 100 startups have already benefited from this program, innovating on our generative AI platform, collaborating on co-sales opportunities, and […]

AWS – AWS Outposts supported in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region
AWS Outposts is now supported in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Organizations from startups to enterprises and the public sector in and outside of Spain […]

GCP – Integrate Oracle EBS insights faster with Google Cloud Cortex Framework
In today’s hyper-competitive market, businesses can’t afford to wait weeks or months for critical enterprise data. The ability to gain fast, actionable insights into core business processes like order-to-cash is no longer a luxury, it’s a necessity. Why the urgency? Because visibility empowers enterprises to: Spot sales trends as they emerge: Identify top-performing products, pinpoint […]

GCP – Reduce unexpected costs with the new AI-powered Cost Anomaly Detection
Controlling runaway spend and minimizing unexpected costs is a priority for every business. Imagine a scenario where faulty development or rogue code results in a usage spike over the weekend, unbeknownst to you. If not caught in time, this kind of usage can result in cost spikes that can exhaust your budgets and put a […]

GCP – How to protect your site from DDoS attacks with the power of Google Cloud networking and network security
Google Cloud constantly innovates and invests significantly in our capabilities to stop cyberattacks such as distributed denial-of-service attacks from taking down websites, apps, and services. It’s an essential part of protecting our customers. Our Project Shield offering, which uses Google’s Cloud networking and our Global Front End infrastructure to help defend against attacks, including stopping […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 7 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 7 new security controls, increasing the total number of controls offered to 430. Security Hub now supports controls for new resource types, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Multi-Region Access Points and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Connect. Security Hub also released new control for Amazon GuardDuty […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices
Amazon WorkSpaces is launching support for transferring files between a WorkSpaces Personal session and a local computer. This helps customers to manage and share files seamlessly, increasing their productivity. This is supported on personal WorkSpaces that use the DCV streaming protocol when using the Windows, Linux client applications or web access. With this launch, users […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports multi-day copy and paste of agent schedules
Amazon Connect now supports copying of agent schedules across multiple days, making management of agent schedules more efficient. You can now copy multiple days shifts from one agent to another agent or to the same agent, up to 14 days at a time. For example, if a new agent joins the team mid-month, you can […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 now supports Optimize CPUs post instance launch
Amazon EC2 now allows customers to modify an instance’s CPU options after launch. You can now modify the number of vCPUs and/or disable the hyperthreading of a stopped EC2 instance to save on vCPU-based licensing costs. In addition, an instance’s CPU options are now maintained when changing its instance type. The Optimize CPUs feature allows […]
AWS – AWS Application Composer is now AWS Infrastructure Composer
AWS Application Composer is now called AWS Infrastructure Composer. The new name emphasizes our capabilities in building infrastructure architectures. Since launching at re:Invent ’22, customers have told us how Application Composer has helped accelerate their serverless application architecture design with Application Composer’s simple drag-and-drop interface. Since the initial release, we have expanded our support to […]