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GCP – Appathon shows students and soldiers ease of no-code app development
It’s no secret that hackathons can be a great way to quickly generate creative solutions to complex problems. With a well-crafted brief and a set of operating constraints, hackathon participants can innovate quickly and collaborate openly—often generating the beginnings of notable software advancements. This spirit of rapid innovation came to life recently when the Department […]

AWS – Announcing the latest release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.2
Deadline 10.2.1 is now generally available and adds new functionality with support for launching and managing Spot Fleets in multiple AWS regions from the same Spot Event Plugin and a new worker version tag for instances running on Amazon EC2. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon IVS now supports multiple hosts in live streams
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now lets developers combine video from multiple hosts into the source for a live stream. With this feature, Amazon IVS adds a new resource called a stage. A stage is a virtual space where participants can exchange audio and video in real time. You then broadcast a stage to […]

Azure – Public Preview: Workspaces in Azure API Management
Workspaces for Azure API Management is now in public preview. This new capability enables granular access control in multi-team Azure API Management deployments. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management
With Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management, you can now integrate clients in a virtual network privately. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SNS announces support for setting content-type request headers for HTTP/S notifications
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports setting content-type request headers for HTTP/S notifications. This enables your topic subscribers to create a DeliveryPolicy that specifies the content-type value that Amazon SNS assigns to their HTTP/S notifications, such as application/json, application/xml, or text/plain. With this launch, applications can receive their notifications in a more predictable format. […]

AWS – Announcing per-second billing for all Amazon GameLift instances
We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports per-second billing for both Linux and Windows instances. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this update, customers will only pay for Amazon GameLift usage in one second increments, with a […]

AWS – Allow Listing tool for testing new Billing, Cost Management and Account console permissions
Today, AWS announces the release of an allow listing feature that helps you test and enable the new fine-grained IAM permissions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account services. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google is named a Leader in Forrester Data Security Platforms Wave
To help organizations confidently move their sensitive data to the cloud, Google Cloud works diligently to earn and maintain customer trust. Our Trusted Cloud is committed to giving you a secure foundation that you can verify and independently control. Discovery and protection of sensitive data are integral parts of Google Cloud’s strategy to safeguard customer […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters are now available in 3 additional regions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Elastic Clusters are now available in 3 Asia Pacific regions – Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. DocumentDB Elastic Clusters are a new type of DocumentDB cluster that enables you to elastically scale your document database to handle millions of reads and writes per second with petabytes of storage. Read More for […]