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AWS – AWS Control Tower launches 28 new proactive controls
Today we are excited to announce the launch of 28 new proactive controls in AWS Control Tower. This launch enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities, allowing you to implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments by blocking non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as AWS OpenSearch Service, AWS Auto Scaling, […]
AWS – QuickSight dashboards now available for seller reporting and insights in AWS Marketplace
Today, AWS Marketplace announced General availability of two Amazon QuickSight dashboards for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the billed revenue dashboard and collections & disbursements dashboard from the Insights tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could access their business data via downloadable CSV reports on AMMP. Now, the sellers can […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I4g Instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Canada (Central) region. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces improved end-to-end latencies for Amazon EventBridge Event Buses
Amazon EventBridge Event Buses now delivers events with lower latencies enabling you to power an even broader set of latency sensitive event-driven applications, especially in industrial and medical applications. Amazon Eventbridge delivers events up to 80% faster than before, as measured by the time an event is ingested to the first invocation attempt. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches APIs to programmatically configure prompts
Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically create and manage prompts. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. With this launch, you can now programmatically create new custom prompts, or extract prompts stored within Amazon Connect and add them to your Amazon S3 bucket. […]
AWS – AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector now supports on-premises databases
Starting today, the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector supports the discovery of on-premises databases, allowing you to achieve more comprehensive data collection through the deployment of a single tool. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial ML (Generally Available)
Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial machine learning (ML), making it easier for data scientists and ML engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data. Today, the majority of all data generated contains geospatial information, but only a small fraction of it is used for ML because accessing, processing, and visualizing the data […]
GCP – Understand and manage data at scale with Cloud Storage Insights
With Cloud Storage, organizations can scale cloud storage usage from terabytes (TBs) to exabytes (EBs) without being constrained by infrastructure or scalability. But, when data volume increases, it gets harder to efficiently discover and manage that data, which can cause problems such as security flaws and unforeseen storage expenditures. To address these challenges, we’re excited […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early May 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2023. This month, we’re featuring guest author MK Palmore, director in our Office of the CISO. MK will be discussing our new Google Cybersecurity Certificate and how it can help organizations close the security talent gap. Before I turn the mic over to MK, I’d like […]
GCP – When they go closed, we go open – Google Cloud and open billing data
Cloud cost optimization, a key FinOps practice pillar, begins with understanding. But deciphering cloud bills can sometimes feel like a full-time job. If you have a multicloud environment, you’ve likely observed that cloud providers rarely, if ever, handle cloud billing the same way. Making sense of multiple cloud bills is like working overtime! To demystify […]