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AWS – AWS now supports Zone Groups for Availability Zones
AWS now supports the Zone Groups for Availability Zones across all AWS Regions, making it easier for you to differentiate groups of Local Zones and Availability Zones. Zone Groups were initially launched to help you identify related groups of Local Zones that reside in the same geography. For example, the two interconnected Local Zones in […]
AWS – Amazon EKS managed node groups introduces new update strategies
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers new update strategies for managed node groups, giving you control over how Amazon EC2 instances in your clusters are updated with new configurations or for new Kubernetes versions. This feature provides flexibility to make changes to your Amazon EKS cluster nodes in a way that best suits […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile App
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of AWS Managed Notifications in the AWS Console Mobile Application. You can now get push notifications for default AWS Health notifications and view them in the AWS Console Mobile Application’s notification inbox, alongside your user-configured notifications such as CloudWatch alarms. To get started, visit the […]
GCP – Privacy-preserving Confidential Computing now on even more machines and services
Organizations are increasingly using Confidential Computing to help protect their sensitive data in use as part of their data protection efforts. Today, we are excited to highlight new Confidential Computing capabilities that make it easier for organizations of all sizes to adopt this important privacy-preserving technology. 1. Confidential GKE Nodes on the general-purpose C3D machine […]
GCP – Cloud migrations made easy: a guide to migrating from AWS to Google Cloud
More and more customers deploy their workloads on Google Cloud. But what if your workloads are sitting in another cloud? Planning, designing, and implementing a migration of your workloads, data, and processes is not an easy task. It gets even harder if you have to meet requirements that have an impact on the migration, such […]
GCP – A new flexible, simplified, and more secure way to configure GKE cluster connectivity
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides users with a lot of options when it comes to configuring their cluster networks. But with today’s highly dynamic environments, GKE platform operators tell us that they want more flexibility when it comes to changing up their configurations. To help, today we are excited to announce a set of features […]
AWS – AWS announces new edge location in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by launching a new Amazon CloudFront edge location in Jeddah. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now offers multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English
Amazon Bedrock now offers multimodal support for Cohere Embed 3 Multilingual and Embed 3 English, foundation models that generate embeddings from both text and images. This powerful addition to Amazon Bedrock can enable enterprises to unlock significant value from their vast amounts of data, including visual content. With this new capability, businesses can build systems […]
AWS – Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.32
Kubernetes version 1.32 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.32. Starting today, you can create new EKS clusters using version 1.32 and upgrade existing clusters to version 1.32 using the […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family supports custom directory locations to store AS2 files
AWS Transfer Family now allows you to customize the directories for your Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) files, including the inbound AS2 messages, message disposition notifications (MDN), and other metadata files. This enables you to separate your AS2 messages from the MDN files and status files generated by the service, and automate downstream processing of the […]