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Azure – Azure Support Plan Offer extended to December 31, 2023
The existing Azure Support offer is being extended. The promotion will run from July 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Load Balancer per VM limit removal
Increase resiliency, higher availability, and flexibility by utilizing more than 2 Standard Load Balancers per VM. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing new ways Security Command Center Premium protects identities
After decades of managing and securing identities in data centers, security and IT operations teams face new challenges when detecting identity compromise in their public cloud environments. Protecting cloud service accounts against leaked keys, privilege escalation in complex authorization systems, and insider threats are vital tasks when considering the threat landscape. Security Command Center Premium, […]
GCP – FinOps from the field: How to build a FinOps roadmap
Welcome to FinOps from the Field — a new blog series from experienced FinOps practitioners at Google Cloud designed to help answer the most common questions we get here about how you can apply FinOps to your Google Cloud spend. This content will be a combination of stories and experiences designed specifically to help customers […]
GCP – Build an image data classification model with BigQuery ML
There are countless use cases for capturing, storing, and classifying unstructured image data — think social media analytics to find missing people, image analytics for tracking road traffic, or media analytics for e-commerce recommendations, to name a few. Most organizations are not able to be fully data driven because the majority of the data generated […]
GCP – How to simplify unstructured data analytics using BigQuery ML and Vertex AI
Unstructured data such as images, speech and textual data can be notoriously difficult to manage, and even harder to analyze. The analysis of unstructured data includes use cases such as extracting text from images using OCR, sentiment analysis on customer reviews and simplifying translation for analytics. All of this data needs to be stored, managed […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use Application Migration Service to migrate and modernize your applications in these AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now offers visibility of point in time cost estimations
Starting today, AWS Pricing Calculator will enable you to re-access your previously saved estimate with pricing as on the date you created the estimate, while giving you the option to update the estimate to reflect latest pricing. The new experience will now make it possible for you to track changes to your cost estimates over […]
AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports wildcards in IAM principal name associations
AWS Service Catalog now supports granting portfolio access to IAM principal (user, group or role) names with wildcards, such as ‘*’ or ‘?’. This enables flexible and efficient sharing of infrastructure-as-code templates for customers using wildcard patterns to cover multiple IAM principal names at a time. Previously, customers had to use the exact IAM principal […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager introduces a customizable dashboard with new insights
Today, AWS announced the launch of a new customization feature for the Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (VPC IPAM) dashboard, that allows you to adapt the VPC IPAM dashboard to your specific needs. With this new feature, you can rearrange and resize widgets to your preferences. For example, if you want to see the overlapping […]