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GCP – Simplify data lake pipelines with new Pub/Sub Cloud Storage subscriptions
Ever wanted to move your data from Pub/Sub into Cloud Storage? Until today, data engineers focused on building the data lake for their organizations had to put together complex data pipelines to ingest streaming data from Pub/Sub into Cloud Storage. In order to land streaming data into Cloud Storage, they either needed to write their […]
GCP – Introducing predictable cost options for Cloud Data Loss Prevention
Cloud Data Loss Prevention’s Discovery service can help you discover, profile, and monitor sensitive data across your entire organization or just select projects. We’ve expanded the service to cover BigQuery and BigLake, with more cloud analytics services that manage sensitive data coming later this year. Continuous visibility of where your sensitive data is stored and […]
GCP – Accelerating the mission with generative AI
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to join public sector leaders to discuss a topic that is top of mind for everyone – generative AI. At our Generative AI Live + Labs event in Washington DC, we shared how this technology is already revolutionizing our lives in how we live and work. In government, […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon ECS templates for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Blueprints
Amazon EC2 adds templates for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) to the Spot Blueprints portfolio. With Spot Blueprints, you can generate a reusable quick start template as CloudFormation or Terraform, based on your workload, and use the template to configure a compute environment using EC2 Spot Instances. This saves you time learning to use Spot […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now available in Hyderabad and Dubai Regions
AWS Launch Wizard now supports deployment of SAP HANA and Microsoft SQL Server workloads in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)and Middle East (UAE) Regions. We are also announcing support for additional languages within AWS Launch Wizard, including Chinese (traditional and simplified), Portuguese (Brazil), German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Route 53 adds support for 14 additional Top-Level Domains
Amazon Route 53 offers domain name registration services, previously supporting 315 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) while providing easy integration with other AWS services. We are excited to announce the recent addition of 14 additional TLDs that you can now register with Route 53: .actor, .airforce, .bet, .degree, .games, .gives, .gmbh, .group, .press, .site, .space, .tech, .store, […]
AWS – VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in 2 additional regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS in AWS Europe (Zurich) region and AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. The addition of these 2 regions expands the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS to a total of 25 regions globally, enabling customers to have a faster and more efficient way to migrate […]
AWS – Announcing preview of JSON protocol support for Amazon SQS
Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces a preview of JSON protocol support, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and […]
AWS – AWS announces Public IP Insights, a new feature of VPC IP Address Manager
Public IP Insights is an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) feature that provides a unified view of all public IPv4 addresses, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze and audit public IPv4 addresses used across AWS services, in your AWS account. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Database Encryption SDK for Amazon DynamoDB now generally available
Today, we announce the general availability of AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads. Read More for the details.