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GCP – Meet our Data Champions: Emily Bobis, driving road intelligence in Australia
Editor’s note: This is the second blog in Meet the Google Cloud Data Champions, a series celebrating the people behind data and AI-driven transformations. Each blog features a champion’s career journey, lessons learned, advice they would give other leaders, and more. This story features Emily Bobis, Co-Founder of Compass IoT, an award-winning Australian road intelligence […]
GCP – iNaturalist uses Google Maps Platform to Support Conservation Efforts
Our ecological system is made up of countless species that have evolved over millions of years, and the impacts of habitat loss and climate change are the loss of species every year. iNaturalist is a crowdsourced biodiversity recording platform and a social network for people who love nature that was created as a tool to […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge event buses supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas
Amazon EventBridge event buses now supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas. Previously, you could use the AWS Service Quotas page to view the default quotas, applied quotas, and also request quota increases for Amazon EventBridge. Now, with enhanced integration, your quota increase requests for limits such as PutEvents transactions-per-second, number of rules, and invocations […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Read More for the details.
AWS – Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables customers to programmatically manage both primary and alternate contact information for their […]
AWS – Workspot announces Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Today, Workspot announces Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core. You can now provision, deploy, and manage Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core directly from Workspot Control: your single global administration console. You can also use your existing security, PC management tools, and Security Event and Incident Management (SIEM) solutions seamlessly extending your […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift now supports publishing events to encrypted Amazon SNS topics
Amazon GameLift can now publish events to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics that have server-side encryption (SSE) enabled, for additional protection of events that carry sensitive data. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, customers can now […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Ashburn, Virginia
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia. By connecting your network to AWS at this location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports Amazon EKS Anywhere
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Snow, a new deployment option that helps customers create and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS Snow Family devices. EKS Anywhere on Snow is designed to provide Kubernetes cluster provisioning and familiar operational visibility tooling for customers to manage […]
AWS – Organizations-related condition keys for IAM policies now available in AWS China Regions
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports the ability to refine permissions policies based on the organizational unit (OU) or organization ID in AWS Organizations of the principal or resource for IAM policies in the AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. With these new […]