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Azure – Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation, streamlining the steps and efforts required to validate domain ownership. Read More for the details.

GCP – Built with Google Cloud: Google and Acalvio partner to deliver Active Defense to protect customers from advanced threats
Security is a top priority for all customers on Google Cloud, whether beginner, intermediate, or advanced users. Through our partnership with Acalvio, we are able to offer Active Defense to Google Cloud customers, providing automated deception management and deployment capabilities, with a simple onboarding experience. Architecture overview Acalvio’s patented Active Defense platform, built on award-winning […]

GCP – Improving launch time of Stable Diffusion on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) by 4X
Background With the increasing popularity of AI-generated content (AIGC), open-source projects based on text-to-image AI models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion have emerged. Stable Diffusion is a diffusion model that generates realistic images based on given text inputs. In this GitHub repository, we provide three different solutions for deploying Stable Diffusion quickly on Google […]

GCP – Light the way ahead: Platform Engineering, Golden Paths, and the power of self-service
Imagine that you’re a Java developer who has just joined a new company, and you’re tasked with creating a small Java service. In a DevOps model, the shared responsibility between Development and Operations teams might mean that you’ll not only be expected to write Java code, but also operations code like build pipelines and monitoring […]

Azure – Introducing Graph Semantics in Kusto, a new way to contextualize time series data
Analyze networks, connected assets and more with Kusto’s graph semantics extension to the Kusto Query Language (KQL). Find out how to contextualize your time series data in KQL, and how to leverage time-aware graphs. Read More for the details.

AWS – Get programmatic notifications for AWS Marketplace Offer Published events
Today, AWS Marketplace announces general availability for programmatic notifications to communicate relevant details to buyers and partners once an AWS Marketplace offer is successfully created and available for subscription. With this launch, buyers and partners can use AWS EventBridge to quickly ingest, filter, transform, and deliver offer lifecycle events to build new applications quickly. Read […]

AWS – ROSA now available in the Europe (Spain) Region
Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Europe (Spain) Region. Starting today, you can enable ROSA from the AWS Console and launch ROSA clusters in the Europe (Spain) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Backup announces support for Amazon Aurora continuous backup
Today, AWS Backup announces support for Amazon Aurora continuous backup, allowing specific point-in-time restore within customers’ retention period of up to 35 days. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. With this launch, Aurora customers using AWS Backup can now meet their Recovery […]

AWS – Amazon SES email receiving service expands to 7 new regions
Today we’re thrilled to announce that Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is expanding its email receiving capabilities to 7 new regions. This expansion provides businesses and developers who deal with a high volume of emails a robust solution for swift processing. As the email receiver, SES handles underlying mail-receiving operations, such as communication with other […]
AWS – AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a
AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the Los Angeles Local Zone us-west-2-lax-1a. AWS Local Zones is a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that places AWS compute, storage, database, and other select services closer to large population, industry, and IT centers where no AWS Region exists today. Read More for the details.