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AWS – Application Auto Scaling now supports resource tagging
Starting today, Application Auto Scaling customers can use tags to manage the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions related to their auto scaled resources. Prior to this launch there was no way for customers to control IAM permissions based on custom resource tags. Now, permissions can be centrally managed for all resources tagged with […]

AWS – AWS now allows you to bring your Windows 11 licenses to Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon Web Services announces the ability to run Windows 11 operating system on your Amazon Workspaces hosted on hardware that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud. To do this, you must Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and provide a Windows 11 license. You can now offer a consistent desktop experience to your users […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports 3 additional AWS networking services
Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now allows you to view the network reachability between your source and destination in your virtual private clouds (VPCs) through Gateway Load Balancers, AWS Network Firewalls, and AWS PrivateLink services. In addition, you can also check network reachability between a source resource and your specified destination IP address. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Clean Rooms is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Clean Rooms, a fully managed analytics service that helps customers collaborate with their partners without sharing or copying one another’s raw data. Companies can create a clean room in minutes, removing the need to build, manage, or maintain their own solutions or move data outside of AWS. […]

AWS – Amazon Corretto 20 is now generally available
You can now download Corretto 20 from our downloads page. This latest version supports the most recent OpenJDK feature release and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Read More for the details.

Azure – Announcement: Azure Active Directory backed authentication for JMS 2.0 API on Azure Service Bus
Announcement of AAD support for the JMS 2.0 API of Azure Service Bus. Read More for the details.

GCP – Introducing G2 VMs with NVIDIA L4 GPUs — a cloud-industry first
Organizations across industries are looking to AI to turn troves of data into intelligence, powered by the latest advances in generative AI. Yet for many organizations, there is a barrier to adopting the latest models because they can be costly to train or serve. A new class of cloud GPUs is needed to lower the […]

GCP – Build a multiplayer game with Cloud Spanner
Fantasy sports games are live service games built on real-world data. The data is collected from various sources such as real-world sports leagues, statistics websites, and news outlets. A virtual world is built where players can draft teams and compete against each other at a global scale in real time. These games are characterized by […]

GCP – Run your game infrastructure on GKE Autopilot to focus on player experience
Earlier this month, we shared Google Cloud’s strategy for live service games which outlines our focus on the three critical pillars of (1) serving players everywhere, (2) collecting and organizing game data, and (3) unlocking player and game insights. Starting today, you can run your game workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Autopilot — a […]
GCP – Document AI introduces powerful new Custom Document Classifier to automate document processing
Businesses rely on an inflow of documents to drive processes and make decisions. As documents flow into a business, many are not classified by type, which makes it difficult for businesses to manage at scale. At Google Cloud, we’re committed to solving these challenges with continued investment in our state-of-the-art machine learning product for document […]