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AWS – Amazon API Gateway customers can easily secure APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions
Amazon Verified Permissions expanded support for securing Amazon API Gateway APIs, with fine grained access controls when using an Open ID connect (OIDC) compliant identity provider. Developers can now control access based on user attributes and group memberships, without writing code. For example, say you are building a loan processing application. Using this feature, you […]
AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports Bitbucket Cloud source code repositories
Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports the use of source code repositories hosted in Bitbucket Cloud in CodeCatalyst projects. This allows customers to use Bitbucket Cloud repositories with CodeCatalyst’s features such as its cloud IDE (Development Environments), Generative AI features such as Q feature development, and custom blueprints. Customers can also trigger CodeCatalyst workflows based on events […]
AWS – Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization
Today, we are making it easier for AWS Organizations customers to centrally manage the root email address of member accounts across their Organization using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Software Development Kit (SDK), and AWS Organizations console. We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables Organizations customers to centrally and programmatically manage both […]
AWS – Amazon Data Firehose now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager (Secrets Manager) to configure secrets such as database credentials or keys to connect to streaming destinations such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Splunk, and HTTP endpoints. Amazon Data Firehose needs to access a secret such as database credentials or keys to connect to a streaming […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre increases maximum metadata IOPS by up to 15x
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance, cost-effective, and scalable file storage for compute workloads, is increasing the maximum level of metadata IO operations per second (IOPS) you can drive on a file system by up to 15x, and now allows you to provision metadata IOPS independently of your file system’s storage capacity. […]
GCP – What’s new in PostgreSQL 16: New features available in Cloud SQL today
In an effort to improve usability and facilitate informed decision-making, Cloud SQL customers can now use PostgreSQL 16, which introduces new features for deeper insights into database operations and enhanced usability. In this blog post we cover some of the highlights of the PostgreSQL 16 version, including: Improvements in observability Performance improvements Vacuum efficiency Replication […]
GCP – How to integrate Gemini and Sheets with BigQuery
I often find myself in Google Sheets. Some would say too often. Since I use Gemini for all kinds of things too, integrating Gemini into my Sheets workflow just makes sense. I can boost my productivity in Sheets with capabilities like summarizing sheets and creating formulas. Gemini is now available in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and […]
GCP – Chugai Pharmaceutical: Accelerating drug discovery through AI, machine learning and data analysis
Chugai Pharmaceutical is one of the leading companies in the pharmaceutical industry driving digital transformation (DX) and has been selected as a ‘DX Brand’ by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange for three consecutive years. We were also named the “Digital Transformation Platinum Company 2023-2025” under the DX Stocks […]
GCP – Hamina boosts productivity and achieves cost savings with Google
Editor’s note: In today’s post, Niko Palmu, IT Manager for the town of Hamina, Finland, shares their success story. Hamina’s adoption of ChromeOS, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud resulted in a remarkable 60% cost reduction while boosting productivity for their 800 strong workforce. Hamina, along with many municipalities around the world, is actively navigating a […]
AWS – AWS AppFabric now supports JumpCloud
AWS AppFabric, a no-code service that quickly integrates with software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to enhance an organization’s security posture, now supports JumpCloud. AppFabric provides aggregated and normalized audit logs from popular SaaS applications like Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, Atlassian Jira suite, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. By centralizing SaaS application data, AppFabric helps teams gain greater visibility […]