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GCP – Bringing cloud and AI capabilities to the tactical edge: Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is generally available
In harsh, disconnected, or mobile environments like disaster zones, remote research stations, or long-haul trucking operations, organizations face significant challenges in providing computing capabilities. Previously, organizations with mission-critical workloads lacked access to important cloud and AI capabilities when in demanding edge environments, including those that present unique challenges and requirements. Today, we are excited to […]

AWS – AWS Artifact now supports enhanced search capability for reports
We are excited to announce enhanced search capability in the AWS Artifact Reports console that allows you to quickly find the compliance reports you need. You can now perform targeted searches for reports based on individual columns, including report title, category, series, description, and ARN. This empowers you to easily locate specific reports. For example, […]

GCP – How Gramercy Tech used Imagen to deliver an innovative conference experience
Editor’s note: In this guest post, we will hear from Gramercy Tech about their experience working with Google Cloud as both a customer and vendor. Organizing engaging events can be quite challenging, but by utilizing Google’s Imagen throughout the conference, the Gramercy team was able to demonstrate the possibilities of generative AI for creating real-time […]

GCP – New Spanner geo-partitioning improves performance and lowers costs
In today’s interconnected world, your applications and users are geographically dispersed. If your database isn’t designed to handle this geographic distribution, you are sacrificing performance and user experience. But now, with Spanner geo-partitioning, you don’t have to. Spanner is Google’s fully managed, globally distributed database with high throughput and virtually unlimited scale. With features such […]

GCP – Cross-Cloud Network: Design global distributed applications at scale
Interested in learning how to simplify your distributed application architecture with Cross-Cloud Network, for connecting, securing, and delivering applications across on-premises, Google Cloud, and third-party cloud environments? The newly published Cross-Cloud Networking for distributed applications section of the Cloud Architecture Center offers a comprehensive guide to designing and implementing a robust cross-cloud environment. In this […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight improves controls performance
Currently in Amazon QuickSight when readers interact with controls they need to wait for all relevant controls to reload after each change is made. With this new release readers will see most controls immediately accessible as loading has been moved to the background. Readers may see a loading indicator in the sample value list, but […]

GCP – Flexible committed-use discounts are now even more flexible
Google Cloud offers many great ways to run your workloads: low-level VMs in Google Compute Engine, container orchestration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) — including via fully-managed Autopilot mode — and Cloud Run. Until now, to optimize your spend, you needed to purchase several Committed-use Discounts (CUDs) to cover each of these different products. For […]

AWS – AWS Application Migration Service achieves FedRAMP High authorization
Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service with workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. In addition to achieving FedRAMP High authorization in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions, AWS Application Migration Service is in scope for numerous compliance programs and standards, including HIPAA […]

AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 24 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 24 new security controls, increasing the number of controls offered to 418. Security Hub now supports controls for additional AWS services such as Amazon Inspector, Amazon Data Firehose and AWS Service Catalog. Security Hub also released new controls against previously supported services like Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon DynamoDB. For the […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports additional deployment options in two AWS Regions
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ 2 file systems in two additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). Customers can now also create new Multi-AZ file systems in these two regions with higher throughput capacity than they could previously, up to a new maximum of 10,240 MBps. Amazon FSx for […]