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GCP – Google Cloud offers new AI, cybersecurity, and data analytics training to unlock job opportunities
Google Cloud is on a mission to help everyone build the skills they need for in-demand cloud jobs. Today, we’re excited to announce new learning opportunities that will help you gain these in-demand skills through new courses and certificates in AI, data analytics, and cybersecurity. Even better, we’re hearing from Google Cloud customers that they […]

GCP – New Professional ChromeOS Administrator certified digital perks
We know you are hard at work as ChromeOS administrators. Across the globe, you are managing millions of ChromeOS Devices in education and businesses across the globe. Individuals who become ChromeOS certified are able to create their personalised profiles in the ChromeOS certified Directory and today we are thrilled to announce some new Professional ChromeOS […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family supports self-signed TLS certificates, 3DES encryption for sending AS2 messages
AWS Transfer Family now provides you with the option to import and use a trading partner’s public, self-signed TLS certificate for sending Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) messages to their server over HTTPS. Additionally, you can now choose to encrypt messages sent to your partner’s server using the 3DES cipher. By default, AS2 connectors will encrypt […]

AWS – Amazon Detective supports investigations for GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring
Amazon Detective, a managed security service that helps analysts investigate potential security issues across AWS, has introduced a new feature to support investigating threats detected by Amazon GuardDuty’s EC2 Runtime Monitoring capability. This expansion enhances Detective’s ability to provide visualizations and context for investigating runtime threats targeting EC2 instances. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS KMS announces more flexible automatic key rotation
Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) announces new flexibility, visibility, and pricing for automatic key rotation. You can now customize the frequency of rotation period between 90 days to 7 years (2560 days) as well as invoke key rotation on demand for customer managed KMS keys. Lastly, you can now see the history of all previous rotations […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HLS Interstitials for VOD streams
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HLS Interstitials for video-on-demand (VOD) streams. This feature, which you can enable as an option, automatically conditions manifests so ad break pods are decoupled from the main content stream. By separating the ad content from the main video stream, HLS Interstitials provides more efficient ad payload delivery reducing […]

AWS – AWS Step Functions Announces Optimized Integration for AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Step Functions announces an optimized integration for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, enabling video transcode jobs in your workflow. With this integration, customers can easily build automated, resilient media workflows using the visual authoring and operator experience of Step Functions. With the new Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern for the MediaConvert CreateJob API, Step Functions […]

GCP – All 218 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24 – a recap
Google Cloud Next made a big splash in Las Vegas this week! From our opening keynote showcasing incredible customer momentum to exciting product announcements, we covered how AI is transforming the way that companies work. You can catch up on the highlights in our 14 minute keynote recap! Developers were front and center at our […]

AWS – AWS Resource Explorer is now available in 10 additional AWS Regions
Today, AWS Resource Explorer has expanded the availability of resource search and discovery to 10 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). With this launch, customers can turn on Resource […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Lambda function URL origins
Starting today, customers can protect their AWS Lambda URL origins by using CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow access from designated CloudFront distributions. Read More for the details.