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AWS – Amazon Detective enhances visualizations to improve security investigations
Amazon Detective has released several enhancements to finding groups visualization that help reduce noise and make your security investigations more effective. These enhancements help cut down on the amount of time it takes to identify root cause and affected resources in potential security issues. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service announces live video output price changes
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) live video output prices for Low-Latency Streaming are now reduced by up to 50%. Per hours rates for video output are cut by up to 50% in South Korea, 46% in India, 43% in Taiwan, 41% in Australia, 30% in South America, 29% in Japan, Hong Kong, and South […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink in Israel (Tel Aviv) region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing the ability to release inactive data from Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale the world’s most popular high-performance file system, now supports the ability to free up storage capacity on an FSx file system that has data synchronized with Amazon S3. Read More for the details.

GCP – Additional IL5 services available for the DoD with Google Assured Workloads
Department of Defense (DoD) customers can now deploy DoD SRG Impact Level 5 (IL5) workloads on Google Cloud through Assured Workloads, providing customers with unparalleled flexibility in any of Google’s U.S. regions including one of the world’s largest publicly available machine learning hubs. Google provides the most extensive data center footprint for IL5 workloads of […]

GCP – Commonly asked questions about our recently launched Photorealistic 3D Tiles
Editor’s Note: Since the launch of our Experimental Photorealistic 3D Tilesat I/O in May, we’ve been thrilled to see all of the developer excitement and demos featuring the product. We’ve also received a lot of questions from developers. Together with Lisa Bos, Senior Product Manager at Cesium, we’re highlighting the most commonly asked questions we’ve […]

GCP – How to sustainably transform while minimizing risk
In previous blog posts, we’ve discussed the benefits that organizations can reap by measuring and then optimizing their overall ESG impact. In this post, we’ll look at the endgame: sustainable transformation into an organization that continually adapts to maximize its resilience while reducing risk. Where will my customers be with the evolving global community landscape? […]

GCP – Cloud Speech-to-Text V2 API and Chirp are now Generally Available with new lower pricing tier
As one of the most innate and ubiquitous forms of expression, speech is a fundamental pillar of human interaction. It comes as no surprise, then, that Google Cloud’s Speech API has become a crucial tool for enterprise customers, launched to general availability (GA) over six years ago and, now, processing over 1 billion voice minutes […]

GCP – Introducing new capabilities in Workforce Identity Federation to help you effectively manage identity and access to Google Cloud
We are excited to announce new security features, management options, and product integrations for Workforce Identity Federation, our Identity and Access Management offering that allows you to rapidly onboard user identities from external identity providers (IdPs) for direct, secure access to Google Cloud services and resources. Workforce Identity Federation is built on an identity federation […]
GCP – Cementos Pacasmayo lays solid foundations for innovation with Google Cloud Cortex Framework
Cementos Pacasmayo is a leading producer of construction solutions in Northern Peru whose mission is to “build together the future we dream of.” The company provides its services through a distribution network of more than 3,500 hardware stores and independent retailers. In recent years, Cementos Pacasmayo has transformed its business model to put the customer […]