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GCP – Introducing new cloud services and pricing for ultimate flexibility
As the saying goes, “it’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.” Some organizations find it challenging to predict what cloud resources they’ll need in months or years ahead. Every organization is on its own unique cloud journey. To help, we’re developing new ways for customers to consume and pay for Google Cloud services. […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: Aible’s serverless journey to challenge the cost vs. performance paradigm
Aible is the leader in generating business impact from AI in less than 30 days by helping teams go from raw data to business value with solutions for customer acquisition, churn prevention, demand prediction, preventative maintenance, and more. These solutions help IT and data teams identify valuable data through automated data validation, enabling collaborative open-world […]

GCP – Meet our Data Champions: Emily Bobis, driving road intelligence in Australia
Editor’s note: This is the second blog in Meet the Google Cloud Data Champions, a series celebrating the people behind data and AI-driven transformations. Each blog features a champion’s career journey, lessons learned, advice they would give other leaders, and more. This story features Emily Bobis, Co-Founder of Compass IoT, an award-winning Australian road intelligence […]

GCP – iNaturalist uses Google Maps Platform to Support Conservation Efforts
Our ecological system is made up of countless species that have evolved over millions of years, and the impacts of habitat loss and climate change are the loss of species every year. iNaturalist is a crowdsourced biodiversity recording platform and a social network for people who love nature that was created as a tool to […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge event buses supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas
Amazon EventBridge event buses now supports enhanced integration with AWS Service Quotas. Previously, you could use the AWS Service Quotas page to view the default quotas, applied quotas, and also request quota increases for Amazon EventBridge. Now, with enhanced integration, your quota increase requests for limits such as PutEvents transactions-per-second, number of rules, and invocations […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Read More for the details.

AWS – Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables customers to programmatically manage both primary and alternate contact information for their […]

AWS – Workspot announces Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Today, Workspot announces Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core. You can now provision, deploy, and manage Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core directly from Workspot Control: your single global administration console. You can also use your existing security, PC management tools, and Security Event and Incident Management (SIEM) solutions seamlessly extending your […]

AWS – Amazon GameLift now supports publishing events to encrypted Amazon SNS topics
Amazon GameLift can now publish events to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics that have server-side encryption (SSE) enabled, for additional protection of events that carry sensitive data. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, customers can now […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Ashburn, Virginia
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia. By connecting your network to AWS at this location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the […]