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GCP – Built with BigQuery: Sustainable supply chains start with a data sharing ecosystem
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. In the time it takes to read this sentence, around five football fields of forest will be lost to deforestation globally. Despite growing concerns from companies, communities, and regulators, global deforestation is still responsible for […]

GCP – Google Cloud GSI partners will more than triple their professional services capacity by 2025, according to IDC
Enterprises are selecting Google Cloud for their biggest digital transformation projects, utilizing our trusted infrastructure, powerful data and AI capabilities, cybersecurity services, industry solutions, and more to address their biggest opportunities. And because we’re partner-led in services delivery, our ecosystem—particularly our global systems integrator and consulting partners (GSIs) like Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, and TCS, […]

Azure – Update type on your application insights troubleshooting guides by 31 March 2024
Troubleshooting guides within Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2024 – update the type to workbook. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Cost Explorer announces support for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor (ABC) customers can view proforma costs in AWS Cost Explorer. This release allows ABC customers’ account owners to analyze and save reports of their proforma costs. For example, organizations can use the feature to grant cross-account billing visibility for their business units. Partners can use the feature to give their […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and M7i instances are now available in AWS Regions Europe (Spain, Stockholm)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Spain, Stockholm) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Read […]

AWS – AWS Global Accelerator now supports client IP address preservation for Network Load Balancer endpoints
We are pleased to announce that, starting today, you can preserve client IP addresses towards Network Load Balancers (NLBs) with AWS Global Accelerator. With this feature, you can meet security and compliance restrictions around client IP addresses, apply client-specific logic for IP address or location-based filters, or gather connection statistics. You can also use client […]

AWS – EC2 Hibernate now supports Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances
Starting today, you can now hibernate Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances. Hibernation provides you with the convenience of pausing your instances and resuming them later from a saved state. Using hibernation, your applications will resume from right where they left off. With hibernation, you can maintain pre-warmed instances that can get to a productive […]

AWS – AWS Outposts rack supported in the AWS Middle East (UAE) and the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions
AWS Outposts rack is now supported in the AWS Middle East (UAE) and the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. AWS Outposts rack is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or co-location space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Read More […]

AWS – Improvements to multi-account management for Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty announces a new capability to help customers streamline and simplify how they set up and administer protection plan coverage across all member accounts in an organization. Delegated Administrators (DAs) can now enable one or more GuardDuty features, for all existing and newly-added members of an organization within the same region and helps ensure […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports role-based access control for Amazon EMR
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio. SageMaker Data Wrangler enables you to access data from a wide variety of popular sources including Amazon S3, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Snowflake, and over 50 other […]