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AWS – Amazon Redshift multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing is now generally available
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Redshift multi-data warehouse writes through data sharing. You can now start writing to Amazon Redshift databases from multiple Amazon Redshift data warehouses in just a few clicks. The written data is available to all Amazon Redshift warehouses as soon as it is committed. This allows your teams to […]
AWS – Amazon ECR announces 10x increase in repository limit to 100,000
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports a 10x increase in the default limit for repositories per region per account to 100,000, up from the previous limit of 10,000. This change better aligns with your growth needs and saves you time from not having to request limit increases till 100,000 repositories. You still have the […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports prompted reports and reader scheduling for pixel-perfect reports
We are enabling Amazon QuickSight readers to generate filtered views of pixel-perfect reports and create schedules to deliver reports via email. Readers can create up to five schedules per dashboard for themselves. Previously, only dashboard owners could create schedules and only on the default (author published) view of the dashboard. Now, if an author has […]
GCP – Celebrate Small Business Saturday with ChromeOS
Saturday, November 30, 2024, is Small Business Saturday, a day where we celebrate and support small businesses and their impact on our economy and local communities. Like many small businesses, Google was built in a garage with the spirit of doing things differently.1 We are committed to providing tools and services that support local small […]
AWS – AWS Cloud WAN simplifies on-premises connectivity via AWS Direct Connect
AWS Cloud WAN now supports native integration with AWS Direct Connect, simplifying connectivity between your on-premises networks and the AWS cloud. The new capability enables you to directly attach your Direct Connect gateways to Cloud WAN without the need for an intermediate AWS Transit Gateway, allowing seamless connectivity between your data centers or offices with […]
AWS – Amazon S3 now supports enforcement of conditional write operations for S3 general purpose buckets
Amazon S3 now supports enforcement of conditional write operations for S3 general purpose buckets using bucket policies. With enforcement of conditional writes, you can now mandate that S3 check the existence of an object before creating it in your bucket. Similarly, you can also mandate that S3 check the state of the object’s content before […]
AWS – Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
Amazon S3 can now perform conditional writes that evaluate if an object is unmodified before updating it. This helps you coordinate simultaneous writes to the same object and prevents multiple concurrent writers from unintentionally overwriting the object without knowing the state of its content. You can use this capability by providing the ETag of an […]
AWS – Announcing Idle Disconnect Timeout for Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports Idle Disconnect Timeout for Windows WorkSpaces Personal with the Amazon DCV protocol. WorkSpaces administrators can now configure how long a user can be inactive while connected to a personal WorkSpace, before they are disconnected. This setting is already available for WorkSpaces Pools, but this launch includes end user notifications for idle […]
GCP – Securing AI: Advancing the national security mission
Artificial intelligence is not just a technological advancement; it’s a national security priority. In this new era, AI is both a powerful technology that can bolster any organization’s cybersecurity capabilities and also a critical part of the technology infrastructure that we need to defend and protect. Google recently commissioned IDC to conduct a study that […]
GCP – Australia Connect initiative delivers new digital pathways for the Indo-Pacific
Today, we’re announcing the Australia Connect initiative to further the reach, reliability, and resilience of digital connectivity in Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. This investment will deliver new subsea cable systems and build on the Pacific Connect initiative. The Bosun subsea cable will connect Darwin, Australia to Christmas Island, which has onward connectivity to Singapore. […]